The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-02-08
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Eoh'oriaI Enterprise Is Always Appreci
ated in the West


last Issue of The Arizona Kicker:
ALWAYS In THE LEAD.-Last week we
established new department in the
hlcker-that of answering questions con-
corning disputed points on games of
chance, as well as making decisions there
on: These games will include euchre,
ola sledge, seven-up, pedro, whist, keno,
1aro' roulette, ETC., taking in, in fact,
each and every game known to the sport
ing 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 sub
scrloers within a week, and they are
still coming. We were intending to de-
vote this space to religious news, but
after looking the ground over, and dis
covering that there was none to chroni-
Gle, we gave way to the urgent demands
OF the boys and instituted the new de-
parture. 1t is the general belief that
this will do more to boom our town than
if we had secured $50, 900 for new Gov
eminent building. All communications
intended for this department should be
addressed: Gambling Department of
the Kicker" Write only on one side
of the paper, and do net attempt to write
with blood.
A GREAT INSTRUMENTATION Oba-
diah Shaw, our popular Register of
Deeds, has presented us with a new 49,
caliber revolver of Smith & Wesson
make, as atoken OF his esteem and atfec-
ton, and we feel as proud as boy with
his first pair of boots.
We have been, as some of our friends
know, greatly hampered in our editorial
work during the past year by an old
fashioned revolver 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 a man we
never felt sure which of ns would pet
the contents. 1t was also too large for
our pistol pocket, and on three or four
occasions the other man had opened fire
before we could get it out. When Arkan-
sas Bill met us in front of Taylor's bank
one day last summer and opened fire he
had pulled the trigger three times be-
fore 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 tumbled, and he lived long
enough to tell us that he made the mis-
take of his life when he set out to re-
move 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 fellow-being's carcass
while an average school boy can get his
mouth puckered to begin the first line
of Henry Clay's great speech. We shall
not be satisfied until we have done
little better than that-five seconds bet
ter. Meanwhile, any one hankering for
our scalp can find us at the usual place,
prepared to do the best we can under
the circumstances.
IT REsULTED.-We were born with q
spirit of fair play in our composition
which has never grown less. We want
to see every body and every thing have
fair show. For this reason, when half
dozen of our prominent citizens came
to us one day last week and suggested a
neck-tie party to remove Sow Boy
jack" as he calls himself, from his
sphere on earth to one great deal
higher up, we suggested that he first be
given a show to inflict his presence on
the people of Tombstone or Tucson. He
had been with us three weeks, terroriz-
ing old men, women and boys by his
wild shooting and being too ready with
his pop when dispute arose in saloon.
The assertion of our lop-eared contem-
porary that we wanted to save him until
he had subscribed for the Kicker is a
declaration worthy of Satan himself,
1t was suggested that we call upon
the gentleman named within the quota
ton marks, and throw out hint that
he had better walk. We did So He re-
ceived us with chilling politeness, lis
tened to our words of wisdom, and then
gave us 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
or two. We warned him what the result
would be, and the result has resulted.
On Tuesday night score or more of us
leading citizens made call on Cow Boy
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 Hangman's Tree,
given the usual time to undergo a
change of heart, and then hauled up
and left to his 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 he would subscribe for the Kicker
and pay at least two years in ADVANCE
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