The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-17
TIE ARIZONA KICKER.

We extract the following from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
''We have Just closed a bargain with
Henry Shane, the well-known contractor
and builder, for one-story addition to
the rear end of our office, to be 11xl4 in
size. This room will be used as a gun
smith shop under our own personal man
agement. This will give us, under one
and the same roof, great weekly paper,
job and book Office, grocery, feed
store, hardware store, a butcher shop,
boot and shoe store, signal station
and gun-shop. Three years ago, upon
our arrival in this town, we slept under
a wagon for the first three nights, and
the first money we had was a borrowed
dollar.
SIS it any wonder that our moon-eyed,
lanterned- -iawed, mule-eared contempor-
ary down the street gnaws file all day
and has the collie all night?
Next Monday morning an artist and
engraver sfrom Chicago will arrive in
town to accept position rendered by
this paper. We are the first to introduce
a real artist into Arizona, as we are the
first to lead the way in all good things.
Hereafter all matters of local Importance
and more especially street rows attended
with loss of life, will be illustrated in the
highest style of art, thereby increasing
the value of the Kicker to subscribers by
at least 100 per cent, while the price of
subscriptions will remain at the same old
figures.
''It has so happened, every time we
have been obliged to kill man in this
town in self-defense, that the coroner
and everybody else was in great hurry,
and that the body was buried in the most
convenient 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 Col. Hawk
kins for ground work. Our green-eyed
contemporary got 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 were removed to what is
already known as the Kicker corral, and
each grave designated with white head
board with name painted neatly there
on. In the spring we shall see that each
grave is covered with trailing arbutus-
that is, if arbutus will trail in this coun-
try. The names, as they appear on the
head-boards are Nose, Pete, Jim, Sam
and Jack We shall probably add
couple more to the list before the ides
of May, whatever that is.
every now and then some one who is
with the course of the Kicker
bobs up with proposition to run us out
of the country by establishing new
weekly in opposition. He goes blowing
around, gets a prospectus on broken
backed typewriter, puts his own name
down for So, and that's the last of it.
We've seen twenty such cases in the last
three years and they no longer make our
hair stand on end and chills canter up
down our spinal column.
"Two weeks ago we felt it our duly to
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 to fetch him down. He car
ried shotgun around for two or three
days, telling everybody he had camped
on our trail, but it finally got too heavy
for him and he sold it for three dollars
and got out the usual prospectus. We
hear that he has so far succeeded in get
ting 81 and dog toward establishing a
great newspaper here. BY way of en-
cOuragement we'll add second dog, and
we hope the Mayor will push his project
for all it's worth. .n-DetrOH Free Press.