Thomas County cat., 1890-02-06
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Editorial Entsrprise Always Hits 'Em In

Editorial Entsrpriss Always Hits 'Em In
the wssk
We extract the following from the last
issue OF the Arizona Kicker:
ALWAYS IN TUE LRAD-LAst week va
established new department in Tho Kicker
that OF answering questions concerning dis
puted points on games Of chance, as well -
making decisions thereon. These games wiD
include euchre. old sledge, seven up, pedro.
whist, Keno, faro, roulette, etc. taking in, in
fact, each and every game known to the
Sporting world.
inis department viii 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
caiber.
The fact that such a department hit tho
bulls eye is evidenced by the fact that we
have added twenty-one new subscribers
within week, and they are still coming.
We were intending to devote this space to
reil,sou news, but after looking the ground
over. and al covering that tuere was none to
chronicle, We gave way to the urgent de
E'am.s OF the bo.s and instituted the new de-
pa!tuie 1t is the general belief that this
viii do more TO boom oar town than if we
hasi secured $1,000 for u new government
h,!idin;. All communications intended for
th.s department s.,o all b, .eirose Cam
bling Department Of The Kicker" Write
on Y Oh "as side of the paper, and Il, not at
team. II write v i;h L!s-od
y aEAT IMPROVEMENT NT-Ccl Obesliah
Shaw cur popular register of dsels, has pre-
sea ,c,t l;s with new 3S-caliber revolver of
S;:iith 4 V e-son make, as a token of his eS-
teem ar'i affection, ana we feel as proud as
boy si.lI his lirst pair OF boots.
W.. have been, as some of cur friends
know. greatly haanpered in our editorial work
during tie !aSt year by an old fashioned re-
voiver which could never be depended on in
ii! emergency. 1t was out of repair all
along tie i.c, and when we brought it down
Oh a man never felt sure which of lis
would get the contents. Il was also too large
: for our pi>;to! pocket, and on three or four
occasions the other l:ial lad opened fire be-
fore We could get it out.
When Arkansas Bill met us in front Of
Taylcr's bank one day last summer and
opene:l Gre he had pullei the trigger three
times before We could get our old shooting
iron en- line with his left lurg We didn't
much expect to drop him then, as the hammer
was out OF true, but when we pallet he tum-
ble., and he lived hon; enough to tell us that
he made t:.e mistake of his lfe when he set
out 70 remove the editorial head of Arizona's
great weekly newspaper.
This new weapon adds to our editorial zeal
and enterprise, and puts The Kicker Oh q
more certain foundation. We have had only
one weeks practice. and yet We can draw it
and send two bullets ripping through, fel-
low beings carcass while an average school
boy can got his mouth puckered to begin the
frat line Of Henry Clay's great speech We
shall not be satisfied until We have done q
little better than that-fve seconds better
Meanwhile, any one hankerinS for our scalp
can fiid US Mt the usual place, prepared to do
tie best we can under the circumstances
IL RESULTED.-We were horn with a spirit
Of fair play in our composition which has
never grown less. We want to see everybody
and everything have u fair show. For this
reason, when half q dozen Of our prominent
citizens came to US OIir dag last week and
suggested a necktie pa1ty to remove Cow
boz jack" rs he calls himself from shis
sphere on Garth to one q gre4!. ,ie1l higher
up. We suggested that lie first be given a show
~ inflict his presence Oh the people OF Tomb
stone or Tucson. He had been with Us three
weeks. terrorizing old men, women and boys
by his wild shooting and being too ready
with Lis pop when a dispute arose in saloon.
Tic assertion of our lopeared contemporary
that wp wanted to save him until he had sub
scribe, for The Il cker is q declaration worthy
of Satan himself.
It was sugses;ed that We call upon the
gentleman named within the quotation marks,
anl throw cut 4 hint that he had better walk
We did so. He received lis with chilling po-
teneSS. listened to our words OF wisdom, and
then gave us thirteen seconds to get down
three pairs of stairs. AS he had the drop Oh
us, we got: and he didn't shoot. it is likely
that We saved second or two. We warned
him what the result wouLl be. and the result
has resulted. On Tuesday night score or
more Of us leading tizens made q call OIL
Cowboy Jack. He was somewhat surprised,
but would have done well enough had he beea
given time. He was taken from the q. T.
saloon to HansmaMs tree, given the usual
time to undergo 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 |
II he rad his life to live over again he would |
subscribe for Tho Kicker and pay at least |
two years in advance-Detroit Free Presa