Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-01-18
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Exciting Experiences of the Editor wi
 Human Nature.

Exciting Experiences of the Editor with
 Human Nature.
 WE ARE LEFT.- For the past four weeks our friends have been eagerly pressing us to take the nomination for mayor on the peoples ticket. We do not crave office, and are a very busy man, but the pressure became so great we had to give in.
 Last Tuesday evening the city caucus was held, and instead of being nominated for mayor we received only three votes out of upwards of sixty cast. Our friends were mis- taken when they insisted that we were want ed. Instead of being the unanimous choice of the patriotic people, we had the pleasure of seeing Jerry Baxter, the meanest man in town, given the nomination
 Oh, well, that's human nature right through, and an editor fool enough to go into politics deserves to be driven head first into the tan bark, as we were. We have word to say, however, The Kicker will not only bolt every candidate on the ticket, but we guarantee to have nine-tenths of the nominees in prison be fore they are month older. Veni cum gra- nisl which is Latin for saying; Don't monkey with newspaper man.
 HAVE Cor A FEw.-A correspondent in- quires if The Kicker has any libel suits on hand, as the result of its independent and out spoken course. Well, yes, it has few-about four dozen, we believe, but we are not worry ing any. They have all been instituted by second class ducks, who haven't any charac- ter to be damaged and the whole batch will probably be thrown out of court in lump some day. In the beginning of our career a libel suit used to give us the collie for three days and nights, and we'd wake up from a troubled sleep to find our cheeks wet with | but r,aI IrAa we rather prefer to see them come. It looks like business
 MUST HAVE BEEN THE PROFESSOR Ever since we took possession of our office on Sioux avenue certain people have taken a malicious delight i'll heaving rocks at the doors and through the windows at midnight. We put l up with it the first six months because we l were afraid, and the next six because we liked i to see people enjoy themselves. Then we | warned the public to let up or somebody would get hurt Last Wednesday night q rock weighing three pounds came through 8 | window and barely missed our head as we lay sleeping on our cot. As we got to the door with a shot gun some one could be seen making off over the common. We drew on him and pulled trigger, and something ut tered yell
 Yesterday the body of Professor Jenkins was found in the sage brush about two miles from town, and it was plain that he died of 3 dose of buck shot in the back. Just as likely asL,ot he was the chap we fired at in the dark .,ess. We didn't owe him any particular ! grudge and we didn't know that he did us and we. are willing to foot half the burial ex petlses at venture.
 A bAshE COWARD D.-The item in the Chica 1 go press If recent date that we had been fatally wounded by judge for publishing g slandef was hot exactly correct. In the firsi place, tue uiividual was cowboy named Rose In the next place the article was true and in the third place, after he had fired five shots at us without touching hair, we knocked him silly with a squash that we picked up in front of Snyder's grocery. Ther we stood on him for about half an hour, and when he went out of town our hrindled dog was chasing him at speed of twenty mile. | eu hour Detroit Free Press