Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-15
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Editorial Enterprise Always Hits 'Em in


 the West.
 We extract the following from the last issue of The Arizona Kicker:
 ALWAYS IN THE LEAD.-Last week we established 0 new department in The Kicker that of answering questions concerning dis puted points on games of chance, as well as making decisions thereon. These games will include euchre, old sledge, seven up, pedro, whist, keno, faro, roulette, etc, taking in, in fact, each and every game known to the sporting world.
 This department will be edited by an old gambler of thirty years' experience, and who carries seven knife wounds and the scars of four bullets as proofs of his literary caliber.
 The fact that such department hit the bulls eye is evidenced by the fact that we have added twenty-one new subscribers within a week, and they are still coming. We were intending to devote this space to religious news, but after looking the ground over, and discovering that there was none to chronicle, we gave way to the urgent de- mands of the boys and instituted the new de- parture. It is the general belief that this will do more to boom our town than if we had secured $50, 900 for 8 new government building. All communications intended for this department should be addressed: "Gam- bling Department of The Kicker" Write only on one side of the paper, and do not at tempt to write with blood.
 A GREAT IMPRovEsIENT.-CoL Obediah Shaw, our popular register of deeds, has pre- sented us with new 3S-caliber revolver of Smith & Wesson make, as token of his es- teem and affection, and we feel as proud as 8 boy with bis first pair of boots.
 We have been, some of our friends know, greatly hampered in our editorial work during the past year by an old fashioned re- volver which could never be depended on in an emergency. It was out of repair all along the line, and when we brought it down on a man we never felt sure which of us would get the contents. It was also too large for our pistol pocket, and on three or four occasions the other man had opened fire be- fore we could get it out.
 When Arkansas Bill met us in front of Taylor's bank one day last summer and opened fire he had pulled the trigger three times before we could get our old shooting iron on line with his left lung. We didn't much expect to drop him then, as the hammer was out of true, but when we pulled he tum. bled, and he lived long enough to tell us that he made the mistake of his life when he sci | out to remove the editorial head of Arizona: l great weekly newspaper.
 This new weapon adds to our editorial zea and enterprise, and puts The Kicker on more certain foundation. We have had only one weeks practice, and yet we can draw il and send two bullets ripping through fel | low beings carcass while an average schoo boy can get his mouth puckered to begin tn, first line of Henry Clay's great speech. W, shall not be satisfied until we have done | little better than that-fve seconds better Meanwhile, any one hankering for our scall can find us at the usual place, prepared to d, the best we can under the circumstances.
 IT REsULTED.-We were born with spiri of fair play in our composition which ha - s.0--Ir wuiiu see every yDou1 and everything have fair show For thi reason, when half a dozen of our prominen citizens came to us one day last week an suggested a necktie party to remove ''Cow boy Jack" as he calls himself, from Ehi sphere on earth to one great deal highe up, we suggested that he first be given sho, to infiict his presence on the people of Tomt stone or Tucson. He had been with us thre weeks, terrorizing old men, women and boy by his wild shooting and being too read with his pop when a dispute arose in a saloor The assertion of our lopeared contemporar
 
 scribed for The Kicker is declaration worth of Satan himself
 It was suggested that we call upon th gentleman named within the quotation mark and throw out hint that he had better wall We did so. He received us with chilling pC liteness, listened to our words of wisdom, an then gave us thirteen seconds to get dow three pairs of stairs As he had the drop o us, we got and as he didn't shoot, it is likel that we saved @ second or two. We warne him what the result would be, and the resu has resulted. On Tuesday night a score ( mere of US leading citizens made a call c Cowboy Jack. He was somewhat surpriset but would have done well enough had he bee given time. He was taken from the o. saloon to Hangman's tree, given the usu, time to undergo 8 change of heart, and the hauled up and left to his reflections. W spoke to him personally just before he W, lifted, referring to our former conversation and it pleased us to hear him reply that V were dead right in our deductions, and tn; if he had his life to live over again be woul subscribe for The Kicker and pay at lea two years in advance.-Detroit Free Press.