The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-09-27
THE ARIZONA KICKER.

We extract the following items from
the last issue Of the Arizona Kicker:
A QUEER PRocEEDING.-The other
night some of the boys came around
and routed US out of bed at midnight
TO 90 over and see 'em hang Pete
Smith. Pete is the chap who killed
Williams in saloon row last fall, and
who has had . shot at several other
eminent citizens, including ourself.
For the last two weeks he has been
running the twn, and bis refusal to
take hint resulted in bis being waited
on by the vigilance committee.
We reached the grounds 10 find Pete
standing ON q barrel with a rope
around his neck. He know his time
had come, and was ready to die game,
but no sooner did he learn of our
presence in the crowd than he began
to protest and object and demand that
we be run In to the scrub. We called
his attention to the fact that he had
had two shots at us at close range, and
that VT were the only party on the
ground who could dish up his obituary
in good English, but the ungrateful
rough kept on kicking and would not
even argue the case.
A man in this country can't have
everything he wants, no matter how
big a buffer he is, aud when II was
seen how unreasonable Pete was the
boys went ahead with the hanging just
the same, and Mr.. Smith won't sail
around our streets with gun on each
hip for many moons to como. We've
seen some queer things out here, but
the idea of a man like Pete Smith OBJ
jecting TO q man Ike US seeing him
drop off barrel rather caps the climax.
We are charitable enough to believe
he was little oil.
A CANARD.-The story in certain
Chicago papers that the editor of The
Kicker runs faro room in connection
with the newspaper bears the ear
marks of our jealous-pated contempo-
rary. There isn't word of truth In II.
1t was suggested by Col. Kane about
month ago that we give up aportion
OF our office space during the evening
to a poker club of which we are presi-
dent, and we cheerfully adopted the
suggestion, and game Is on every
night from 7 TO II, but poker isn't faro
mot by long shot. Our enemies
will gain nothing by circulating such
absurd stories about our character.
He STRUCK A SNAa.-Qn the lst
day Of April we started Indian Dick
out of town to see how quick he could
make a journey around the world. To
tell the honest truth, we hadn't over a
ton of confidence in Dick, but he had
90 much ambition that we gave him a
dollar and a half and told him TO draw
on us when he reached Yokohama.
The other day we heard OF him up at
Qverton's ranch, only twenty miles
away and that he had been there ever
since the 3rd of April. II seemed that
he was doing bravely on his trip until
he struck Overton's where an eastern
genius is making some sort Of whisky
out of cactus roots. The first taste of
that liquor nailed Dick right to the
spot, and he hasn't moved ten rods
since. Under these circumstances all
bets are declared off, and all guesses
have been turned loose In the back
yard to shift for themselves.
DRAWING THE L1NE.-Maj. Atwood,
of Tombstone, came down the other
day to ask great favor of us. lie
wanted us to give him one of the
bodies out of our private graveyard
as starter In establishing one Of his
own. While the Major has been our
friend fiom first to last, and while he
always had q dollar for us in the old
days when we were hard up, we must
draw the line somewhere. He can
have our shirt, our rabbits foot, our
fne-comb, but friendship ceases when
he approaches the graveyard which
we have been at so much pains and
expense to fit up and make a feature
Of this section of the country.
DON'T SToP HM--Iast week we
engaged a new arrival from the east
to act as local editor of The Kicker.
lie assured as that bis name was Bar
low and that he was a close follower
in the footsteps Of Horace Greeley.
After twenty-four hours trial he got
tight, stole our Sunday boots, gobbled
a mule and lii out towards sundown.
Don't stop him on our account. The
owner of the mule may want to see
HIM but we don't. Those boots cost
US $12, but If Mr.. Barlow will only
keep away we shall consider II a good
bargain. He is about the twentieth
disciple Of Greeley, Bennett or Ray
mond we have tried in the last year,
aud we are tired-very tired.
Cost OF the Convention.