The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-22
KICKER.
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Editorial Enterprise.

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Editorial Enterprise.
The Detroit Free Press extracts the FOL
lowing from the Arizona Kicker:
"A STRAw.-We have just closed a bar
gain with Henry Shane, the well-known
contractor and builder, for a one-story
addition TO the rear end of Office, to be
llx14 i'm size. This room will be used as q
Qunsmith shop under our own personal
management. This will give us, under
one and the same roof, n great weekly
papcr, a Job and book Office, a grocery,
feed store, a hardware store. a butcher
shoD. n boot and shoe store, n signal sta
ton and n gun shop. Three years ago,
upon our arrival In this town, we slept
under q wagon for the first three nights,
and the first money We had was a Dor
rowed dollar.
as IL any wonder that our moon-eyed.
lantern-jawed, mule-eared contemporary
down the street gnaws n file all day n
has the collie all night"
"ALwAYs AHEAD.-Next Monday morn
ing an artist and engravcr from Chicago
will arrive in town to accept n position
rendered by the Kicker. We are the first
to introduce a real artist into Arizona, as
we are the first to lead the way IN all
other good things. Hereafter all matters
of local importance, but more especially
street rows attended with loss OF life, will
he illustrated i'm the highest style OF the
art, thereby increasing the value OF the
Kicker TO subscribers by at least 100 per
cent, while the price of subscription will
remain at the old figures.
1.-THE CALLED JADE.-It has SO hap
pened, every time we have been obliged
TO kill a man i'm this town In self-defcnsc,
that the coroner and everybody else was
in a great hurry and that the body was
buried in the most convenient place. Last
week we were struck with the idea of
getting them all together in one common
spot. and we bought an acre OF sand lot
OF Colonel Hawkins for a ground work.
Dur grecn-eyed contemporary got n hint
of what was up and lie went blowing
around town and did his best 10 head us
oil: he failed, however, and during the
thaw we had the five bodies taken up, re-
moved to what is already known as The
Kicker corral and each grave designated
with a white headboard with the name
painted neatly thereon. In the spring we
shall see that cach grave Ii covered with
trailing arbutus is III arbutus will
trail In this country. The name as they
appear on the headboards are: Nose,
Pete, Jim, Sam and Jack We shall
probably add n couple more To the list
before the idcs of May, whatever that
is"
''Thcy don't cnthuse.-Every now and
then some one who is dissatisfied with the
course of the Kicker bobs up with the
proposition To run us out of the country
by establishing a new weekly I'm opposi-
ton. He gocs blowing around, gets out u
prospectus on "A brokcn-backed tpye-
writer. puts his own name down for 50,
and that's the last of IT,. We've see -
such cases in the last three years, and
they no longer make our hair stand on
end and chills canter M and down
spinal column.
"Two weeks ago we felt il our duty to
caution the mayor of this tow that he
was riding n high horse and that he must
come down to n mule or we'd take mea-
surcs To make him. He carried an old
shotgun around for two or three days,
telling everybody he had camped on our
trail, but il finally got too heavy for him
and he sold il for 81 and got out the usual
prospectus. We hear that he has thus far
succeeded in raising 81 and a dog toward
establishing "a great newspaper here. by
way OF encouragement Wen add n second
dog, and we hope the mayor will push his
project for all that it's worth"