The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-12
The ARIZONA KICKER.
Western Editorial Life Has Its Ups an

The ARIZONA KICKER.
Western Editorial Life Has Its Ups and
Downs.
We extract the following from the last
Issue cs The Arizopa Kicker:
HAD TO Do IT-That gander-shanked iv-
ing skeleton, who edits the mortgaged sheet
down on Blackjack avenue, is out with a
TRADE against us for shooting Sioux, Jim last
week. He is seeking to get up public feel
ing against us, although he very well knows
that we were fully exonerated by the coro-
ner's jury.
Sioux Jim, who was a half breed, was
fighting drunk. He was looking for VIC
tim when he met us on Apache avenue He
drew his knife With the purpose of carving
our anatomy to strings, but before he could
proceed we pulled our gun and sent six red
hot bullets into his carcass He was the third
man we have had to kill this fall in defense
of our own life, and as we have had to pay
all the burial expenses in each case, no one
can claim that we have shot for fun. 1t cost
US $50 cold cash to plant Jim in decent shape,
and no one would have given $40 for him
!. when alive.
PERHAPS IT WAs.-Last week a number
of gentlemen organized what they called
''The Debonair Literary society,"" and Sc
cured room over Plum's grocery for their
weekly place of meeting. There was a good
deal of chuckling and grinning around town
when it was learned that we had been DELHI
e,ately snubbed by the aforesaid society.
Many friends called to tender their sympa-
thies and advice, but we did not need any
consolation.
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swers "Where!" We simply telegraphed to
Omaha, Denver, Lincoln, Virginia City and
two or three other towns that such person,
wanted for horse stealing, barn burning or
bigamy, was here, and within four days the
Dictionaries were wearing bracelets. Perhaps
it was good idea to snub u.s. Perhaps some
other society will try it on
GIVEN 1T UP-Iyith this issue of The
Kicker we cease the weather forecasts which
we nave been publishing as forecasted from
our own observatory for the last six weeks
While we have had wonderful luck in hitting
the weather for three and four days ahead
our local subscribcs have had no interest in
it and have discouru red our enterprise This
arises from the fact that no one here cares a
cast iron cent what the weather is. If fair,
they 60 out and shoot iackass RABBITS and run
hOl Ii iOuit OlCy oduICi III Vic Uol
and drink whisky and play seven up The
least that concerns them is what the weather
is going to be on the morro,7, ;;nd we don't
propose to educate them up to feel anxious
about it.
WE PLEAD GUnTY.-We ITere called upon
the other evening to act as referee for prize
fighC at the Arcade Athletic rooms, and be-
cause we refused the honor certain persons
| x,l,ca IA
stuck up and thought ourselves better than
the general run. We plead guilty to both in
situations We are altogether too high up in
the scale to referee prize fight and we feel
ourselves as far above certain men in this
town as the eagle is above the grasshopper.
And why not? What other newspaper in
this country has increased its circulation 20c
per cent. in SIX months? What other news
paper has "a combination under its roof OF
grocery, feed store, u butcher shop, g
bakery, q saddlecy and repository for the
sale of wheel barrows? People who take l.:
fer scrub haven't got their eyes open yet.
SETTLED IN FULL.-The fifth breach OF
promise suit brought against US in the last
eight months was settled out of court yester-
day and all further proceedings discontinued
This suit was brought by Miss Aramantha
De Rives, daughter of the well known Judge
De Rives, of Jackass Terrace.
We determined at first to fight this suit t.
the bitter end, but it having come to oul
knowledge that Mrs De Rives had overheard
certain declarations Of ours, and that the fan
g plaintiff had preserved all our letters, W,
t deemed it q matter of prudence and economy
10 settle. As the terms were not to be con
e sidered secret, we state them here. w
s h;lked the fair Aramantha because we dis
covered that she had q cork foot and baC
case of catarrh. If we ever marry we wan
it wife who is sound on her pins. and we don
! care to stumble over an outfit to cure catarrl
a svery time we pass through the house.
While the plaintiff had the bulge on us to
st certain extent, we had something of a bulg
r to offset it, We knew that her mother use
to run second hand clothing store in Den
yer, and by telegraphing certain sheriff W
could have had the judge returned to prisol
t, TO serve cut five more years. We agreed t.
pay $40 and keep quiet-$20 in trade and 81
u in cash-and the proposition was accepted
This ends the case and leaves all good friend:
= and we sincerely hope that the dear girl wi
+, soon be better of her catarrh, and that he
cork foot may not stand in the way of al
other loving her truly and devotedly. DE
troit Free Press