Wichita eagle., 1890-01-28
The ARIZONA KICKER.
Editorial Enterprise Always Hits EN- il
the West

| Editorial Enterprise Always Hits En- in
the West
We extract the following from the last
issue Of TIE Arizona Kicker:
ALWAYS IN THE LEAD.-Last week we
established q new department IN The Kicker
that of answering questions concerning dis
puted points on games of chance, as we'll as
making decisions thereon. These games Will
include euchre, old siedge, seven up, pedro,
whist keno, faro, roulette, etc, taking in, in
fact, each and every game known to the
| sporting world.
This department viii 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 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 10 the urgent de-
mands OF the boys and Instituted the new de
parture. 1t is the general belief that this
will do more 10 boom our town than if we
he'd secured $4,000 for q new government
building. AL communications intended for
this department should De addressed: Cam
bling Department of The Kicker" Write
only on one side of the paper, and do not at
tempt to write with blood.
a GREAT IAPRovEnENr-Col Obedah
Shaw, our popular register Of deeds, has pre-
sented Us with new 33-caliber revolver Of
Smith & Wesson make, as token Of his es-
TEEN and affection, and we feel as proud as a
boy with his FIRST pair of boots
We have been, as some Of our friends
know, greatly hanpered in our editorial work
during the past year by an old fashioned re-
volver which could never be depended on in
an emergency. 1t was out of repair all
along the line, and when we brought it down
on 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 bis left lung We didn't
much expect to drop him then, as the hammer
bled, and he lived long enough to tell us that
he made the mistake of his life when ne set
out to remove the editorial head of Arizonas
great weekly newspaper.
This new weapon adds to our editorial zeal
and enterprise, and puts The Kicker ON a
more certain foundation We have had only
one weeks practice, and yet we can draw it
and send two bullets ripping through fell
boy can get his mouth puckered to begin the
first line of Henry Ciay's great speech We
shall not be satisfied until we have done a
little better than that-fve seconds better
Meanwhile, any one hankering for our scalp
can find US at the usual place, prepared to do
the best we can under the circumstances
1t REsULTED-We were born with spirit
of fair play in our composition which has
never grown less. We want to see everybody
and everything have fair show. For this
reason, when half a dozen of our prominent
citizens came to us one day last week and
suggested necktie party to remove Cow
boy Jack" as he calls himself, from ihis
sphere on earth to one a great deal higher
up, we suggested that he first be given show
to infiict his presence on the people OF Tomb
stone or Tucson He had been with US three
weeks, terrorizing old men, women end boys
by his wild shooting and being too ready
with his pop when dispute arose in a saloon.
The assertion Of our lopeared contemporary
that we wanted to save him until he had SUBJ
scribed for The Kicker is declaration worthy
of Satan himself
1t was suggested that we call upon the
gentleman named within the quotation marks,
and throw out hint that he had better walk.
We did so. He received lis with chilling DO
likeness, listened TO our words of wisdom, and
then gave lis thirteen seconds to get down
three pairs of stairs. As he had the drop on
us, we got; and as he didn't Shoot it is likely
that we saved second OF two. We warned
him what the result would he, and the result
has resulted. On Tuesday night a score or
more of US leading citizens made a call on
Cowboy Jack. He WAS somewhat surprised,
but would have done we'll enough had he been
given time. He was taken from the O. K
saloon to Hangmans tree, given the usual
time to undergo change of heart, and then
hauled up and left TO lis reflections We
spoke to him personally just before he was
lifted, referring to our former conversation,
and it pleased US to hear him reply that we
were dead right in our Deductions and that
if he had his life to live over again be would
subscribe for The Kicker and pay at least
two years in adv ance.-Detroit Free Press.