Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-07
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Neal Editorial Harpine-- Fonnd onis
the Far West.

H& the Iaf 0est
ava extract tho following items from
the last issue % the Arizona Kicker;
ApotoeErfcAI. We must apologize
70 our readers this week for any lack %
interesting matter in the Kicker Mon
dav morning, as we were busy at the
editorial table, that parsonage known az
.sKansas Joe" entered the Office anc
fred both barrels Of shotgun at MS
from a distance Of eighteen feet. One
of the shot raked our scalp, whllc the
rest passed above our head into the wall.
In another thirty seconds Joseph was
dead. We pulled on him with re-
volyer under the smoke and dropped
him with a single bullet. Scores OF our
leading citizens pronounce IL Inc hnes'
shot they have ever known.
There was the usual inquest, burial,
etc occupy:ng so much of our time that
we could not give the paper the atten-
ton it deserved. Next week, unless we
have to kill Tennessee Bill, the Kicker
will again be fully up to the marx
Srr HIS Ap.~~We call attention to the
two-column advertisement OF The White
Elephant drug store, which IS TO DC
found on our third page. This adver'
tisement was not given the Kicker be-
cause we had ascertained that Mr.. Drew,
the drugpist, was an absconder from
Now Jersey, and was here living under
n false name and with woman not MS
wife. but because he is believer IN
nriuter's ink and has faith that the
Kicker will increase his already large
and profitable retail trade.
HAPPENS THAT WAY. On Friday
afternoon we approached Henry omlth,
of the dry goods firm of Smith Bros, ana
suggested that he advertise his business
in the Kicker. He courteously replied
that he would see us in the huckleberry
country-whereve that is-before he
would do business with us. One word
brought on another, and the result was
that he knocked us down, picked up oul
half-unconscious body, and mopped Il
around until he began to sweat his col
lar. and we were then flung out of the
| door into the sand.
We can't and don't expect to licl
every body we bump up against In this
country. We have chawed up seven fcl
every time we have been done up, ant
every body says that is a record to boas'
Of As for Henry Smith, while we owe
him no grudge, we deem it our duty tt
find out where he is wanted by the po-
lice. and we'll bet barrel OF sugar lie
iumps this town inside of two weeks.
LET HIM Howr.-Our bow-backed, lop
shouldered, knee-sprung, green-eyet
contemporary down the street is hal
dead with envy because we were thu
leading feature at Mrs. O'Haras part.
the other evening, while he recelve'
the cold cut. While we were receiving
hundred compliments on our lat
editorial in regard to colonizlng Ice
land with American Indians, he wa
sitting among his paste-pots with coll
glare in his ewes. While we were lead
ing the first quadrille he was kickin
cockroaches in the semi-darkness, an
while we were declaiming sheridan
Ride" in our own inimitable style tn
fire of envy was consuming his small
cheap soul, which was doubtless pun
, chased at some secondhand sale in TIL
/ East.
Let him howl, however. We can a
ford to pass him by with good nature
We are as far above the old vulture a
) Pixies Peak is above the deepest spot i
the sea.
ExpIANAroRY.-An explanation is du
our readers that still another breach-o
promise suit has been brought againS
us, making the seventeenth in tw
1 years. This time it is the Widow Gun
bers who brings suit, and she lays he
damage at $4,000. Society here is Pr
5 culiar. Lone women seek this localit
1 to catch a husband. Any unmarrie
man is fair game, and ordinary courtes
+! is construed to mean love and pr
5 posal Take the last case for instanc
| Mrs. Cumbers invited us to dinner. ST
n said it was in Acknowledgements of tt
power of the press. We put on a clea
h shirt and combed our hair, and she toe
| it to mean that we were gone on he
=. We spoke kindly of the way she boilt
corned beef, and she argued that v
loved her. We praised her prune pi
and she replied that she could be rea6
, in three weeks.
The sixteen other suits have all bee
decided in our favor, and of course tn
;, one will be. 1t is plan to capture
= or our cash, but we don't surrende
4 Even when we have had offers to sett
$50, 600 suit for 81 and calico DIRE
4 we have sternly held to our course al
- let the case 90 to trial,-Detroit FIR