Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16
THE ARIZONA KICKER
The Western Editor Also Has HS
Troubles.

From the Detroit Free Pres.
We extract the following from tie last is.us
OF the Arizona Kicker:
TnEf Cor LsFr.-Foeling the need OF n fev
days rest from brain work. we HE'D our.eH 70
Jims Peak last week. 90 remain about ten
days Soon after supper a stranger approached
US and gave US hint that the boys we're
planning a serenade. and tha, we had better
have speech ready.
In this western country some words have .
double meaning. 'serenade" NAV mean
sweet. soft music by the band with a call from
lot OF jolly good fellows. or n NAV mean .
visit from the gang. who are provided with Q
rope but no music. Ia order to be on the safe
side we took up temporary homo in a thieket
and from thence discovered that this was 20 lie
n rope serenade. Some OF the bows from John
sons ranch had determined 90 lynch u ~ q
great moral warning. but while they were
hunting for us around the hotel We were me-
anderiag through the jack pines and midnight
darkness TO safer quarters
In one sense. We don't blame the bows so
much. An occasional hanging adds zest and
gusto 20 this western life. aud IL Is very fare
that the victims friends can claim that any
mistake was made. In another sense. the bows
are 10 be blamed FOR their lack 81 taste. Ne
have II on good authority that thcy meant 20
hang us with An old mule chain. There we've
thirty OF them in the crowd We make no
ments Wen have sherifs and detectives
here after at least thirty of them, before
the week is cut. and then we shall borrow n
shotgun aud so on hunt after the odd one.
soIp AaArN.-our esteemed contemporary
has made another dismal failure. ON Mouday
he came out in doubled loaded two-column
article on the Wharton shooting case ana
,rleG his best TO prove that We had an active
hand IN IL and were responsible for Judre
Johnsons death. At the coroner's inoue.t
held on that same afternoon, Nal. Bliss testi-
fed:
II was sitting at table in the Red Cross
saloon with the editor ~ the Kicker We
were there TO talk over the Mckinley bin and
| to take the lnitiatory steps toward establishing
another Sunday school Judge johnson came
IN He was pretty drunk. lie saw Bob Wharf
ton at table beyond Us and pulled his GUN
The editor OF the Kicker kindly asked him 70
put 1t up. and offered HIM a years subscription
10 the paper to go home and lake q nan The
! judge refused and pressed forward TO get a
| shot. Next moment Wharton dropped him."
This Was the truth and the whole truth. and
yet our jealous -pated contemporary hoping he
had hold on US. tried his hardest 10 make
out that but for US there would have been no
shooting, We used 10 refer 60 HIM a. tooth
less, knock,Sneed. ow-legged, lop-earcd.
hump-backed, whlte-livered. cross-eyed and 50
on. We have q mortgage on his whole outfit,
and We used 70 threaten to foreclose on it. We
used 10 meet him on the street and scare him
INTO kneeing down and begging our pardon.
We now let him have his own WAY Some day
We will bury HIM IN our private grave yard
! some day when he has tired us completely out
They ARE WRoSG.-Those OF our citizens who
are asserting that our late trouble with the
| postmaster was caused by jealousy Of his posi-
ton on our part are doing us a grave injustice.
True, we were a candidate for postmaster and
| true, also, we are mighty sight better man
| for the place than the present incumbent. but
we are not jealous. Wanamaker refused to ap-
point us and we refuse 20 wear Nanamakers
| clothing. Its an even thing thus far.
The trouble began soon as this man en-
\ tered the post Office. He held back our mail
| and made us weary in many other WAYS We
| pounded him half 20 death one dav. and for
two months he was a model postmaster. Then
| he got sassy and shot at us. and we left bullet
| in his shoulder. That lasted him until the
other day. lie then got on his ear and tried
| TO prick us with a bowie knife. and in sheer
/ self-defense we shot of a part OF his left car
and banged him with the butt OF the revolver.
| Ii was in the interest OF the whole public
| He'll be on deck in week. and for the next
three months he work like a steer and be as
| pleasant as peaches