Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-06-21
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Few Specimen Brlek. OF western Edi-
torial Enterprise.

AnoAf VI sHt aAAAouA hiChtT.
"A STRAw.---Me have lust closed a
bargain with Henry Shane, the we'll
known contractor and builder. for a ono.
story addition 10 the rear end OF our
Office. 10 be 1lxi4 in size. This room
will be used as gunsmith shop under
our own personal management This
viii give u.s. under one and the same
roof, a great weekly paper. job aud
book office. grocery, feed store,
hardware store, butcher shop, a boot
and shoe store, q signal station and
gun shop. Three years ago upon our
arrival in this town, we slept under
wagon for the first three nights and tho
first money we had was borrowed dol.
lar.
''Is II any wonder that our moon
eyed. lantern-iawed, mule-eared con
temporary down the street gnaws file
all day aud has the collie all night?'
"ALwAYs AHEAD. - Next Monday
morning an artist and engraver from
Chicago will arrive In town 70 accept of
position rendered by the Kicker. We
are the first TO introduce real artist
into Arizona, as we are the first 10 lead
the way in all other good things. Here
after all matters of local importance,
but more especially street rows attended
with loss of life, will be illustrated in
the highest style of the art, thereby in-
creasing the value of the Kicker to
subscribers by at least 100 per cent,
while the price Of subscription will re-
main at the old figures"
''THE CALLED JApE.--It has so hap
pened, every time we have been OBJ
liged to kill man in this town In self
defense, that the coroner and every
body else was in great hurry, and that
the body was buried in the most con-
venient place. Last week we were
struck with the idea of getting them all
together in one common spot, and we
bought an acre of sand lot OF Colonel
Hawkins for "A ground work. Our green
eyed contemporary got a hint OF what
was up, and he went blowing around
town and did his best to head us off: he
failed, however, and during the thaw we
had the FIVE bodies taken up. removed
TO what is already known as The
Kicker corral, and each grave desig-
mated with white headboard with the
name painted neatly thereon. In the
spring. we shall see that each grave is
covered with trailing arbutus-that is,
II arbutus will trail in this country. The
names as they appear on the headboards,
are: 'Mc q, Pete, Jim, Sam and Jack.
We shall probably add couple more TO
the list before the ides OF May, what
ever that is"
"THEY DON'T ESruusE.-Every now
and then some one who is dissatisfied
with the course of tho Kicker bubs up
Nyf#l q r.r,aaafff.tu "a rtt, ttu ~ -,
county by establishing a new weekly. in
opposition. He goes blowing around,
gets out prospectus on a broken.
backed typewriter, puts his own name
down for -. and that's the last OF 1t.
We've seen twenty such cases in the las,
three years, and they no longer make
our hair stand on end and chills canter
up and down our spinal column,
Two weeks ago we felt 1t our duty "a
caution the mayor Of this town that he
was riding high horse, and that he
must come down to mule or we'd take
measures 10 make him. tie carried an
old shotgun around for two or three
days. telling everybody he had camped
on our trail, hgt IL finally got 90,
heavy for him and he sold it for s.
and got out the usual prospectus. w
raising 81 and dor towards establish
ing great newspaper here. by way o
encouragement we'll add second dog
aid we hope the mayor will push hi
project for all it's worth"
'NoTIeE.-Parties addressing letter.
TO the Kicker will please add: Unite,
States of America. Western Hemisphere,
to the uF al directions. The postmaste
in this town is never certain what coun
try Arizona i located in. and this vii
greatly facilitate his labors of distrihn
tion. The only qualification no has 20
for the Office is his ignorance OF orthog
raphy and chirogaphy, and his theory a
to why jackass rabbits were created bob
tailed"
Nor GUmTY.--As predicted in gu
last issue, Colonel MeClugg was not hel,
for the shooting Of Dan Tompkins. A
We were an eye witness to the who'll
affair. we felt il our duty 70 90 befor
the coronor's jury with our testimony
Our blink-eyed contemporary down tn
street says we did this hoping TO in
crease the circulation OF the Kicker, an,
he is partly correct. We never lot sli
an opportunity TO increase our subscrir
tlnn list, and are happy 10 announce tina
three members of the coroners jnr
subscribed and paid for year in ad
vance, while the undertaken who furn
ished the box has given US a six inch a
To run c. o. d. Z. I.
'The Colonel was taking drink a
the bar OF the Gray Wolf saloon whe
Tompkins hit him on the chin with ii
onion. IL was a brutal and uncailed 10
thing, and fompSins pulled his gun I
back 1t up. The Colonel jumped be
hind a barrel, pulled his gun and bot
fired together. While he only lost
lock of hair. Tompkins got It plum
81 center and fell dead This should be
solemn warning TO all his class not t
monkey with gentleman when putin
away an afternoon sustainer. - Detroi
Free Press.
The left-handed man was undoubi
edly born 10 be curse to the goo
morals Of an office. In all other voca
tious he is as good and useful as an
# other man. Particularly is this true /
M base hall, where tho leff-hands
''twirlef" can, as a rule. command NOR
salary than an every day right-handei