The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-12
THE ARIZONA KICKER"
Editorial Machinery Sometimes Gets Con
founirtly nut of Gear.

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Editorial Machinery Sometimes s'r'> Ton
foundcdly Out at Gear.
The Detroit Free Press extracts the fol-
lowing from the last issue of the Arizona
K;cley. which came out ON a half-sheet:
Explanatory-We W our readers an
apolecy for the half-shcet we were
Obliged To issue this week. Monday
morning, as We entered the postofficc
after our mail-which, by the way, Is live
times as large as that OF any other estab-
lishment i'm Arizona- MI. Wanamaker's
man Friday. who was appointed postmas-
ter arains, the protests OF nine-tenths OF
our peoplc, came ont into the corridor and
demanded a personal apology for what
the Kicker said about him last
week. In the pioneer days, when
We lived on roots, ana hadn't
a second shirt to our back, We used Ia get
down and crawl whenever requested. We
felt thar we had to-. We were a tendcrfoot
and lacked sand. a change came. We
have not been doing any creeping for the
last Two years. On the contrary, We have
had the revolver and the other man has
lone the four-leggcd act. Therefore, when
wanamakcr's Friday demanded an apol-
ogy and took us 10y the ear to enforce
obedience, we lii onto him with a weight
Of two tons, and had him hollering for
mercy inside Of two minutes. Before let
ting him up We took his gun away, u i'm
some manner II was discharged and the
bullet went through the palm Of our right
hand. The wound will prevent u
using the pen for some weeks and we must
dictate u copy.
Mere ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS man
Friday has a brother named Jim, who is
a loafcr and a cur from way back. We
stated last week that We believed he stole
st.anty IstfsFS from tlln mails and tha
statement seems to have put some git
into him. After we had licked his brother
and got back la the Office Jim came
sneaking down the street and fired at MS
through a window. lie had a shotgun.
hut he fired so high that no one was
touched, and he was out Of sight before
we got 10 the door. In a few days We are
going on a hunt for Jim. We shall locate
him and walk in on him and slice oil his
ear and nail IL on u Office door. Let
him accept this as fair warning OF our in
,cntions. While he didn't hit US with any
Of his buckshot, the idea Of such "A chuck
aloo firing at us with intent To kill ratified
our nerves and sent us To bed when we
ought 10 nave been getting out copy.
Further NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. weeks
& a wild-eyed Ruyasticutus entered this
Town by the dirt road and struck for us for
a"sit.' He gave the name OF j. Melville
Graham, u claimed To have furnished
all the brain fodder for most Of h New
York papers for the last ten years. As he
offered TO work for - per week and buy
his crackers and cheese from our grocery,
We didn't question him as closely as we
otherwise might. He had worked two
days when We got hurt, aud what did the
lop-eared brother OF "a hyena do but go oil
and get drunk u lay down just where
Colonel Haven's drove Of mules would
run over him in going to water. He was
trampled out of sight into the sand. and
on top OF our other roubles we had Ia hire
him dug out and buried. But for his kick
over we could have issued n full sheet and
got il out on time. We have had him cart
ed oil To m corner NJ our private burying
ground, and shall mark his grave; hut we
don't mourn.
The Latest IL orr readers are not salts
fed with the above explanation we have
another 10 fire at them. Owing Ia our
wounded hand we could not do a stroke al
writing. We could dictate, however, and
we hired young Bill Ellis. son of old rep
rebate Ellis. To act as our amauucnsis
We had dictated about half a column
when he differed with us ON how To spell
cordial He insisted that il was ''cor-
JUL" and rather thar see the English
language knocked out we ceased dictat.
ing. fired Bill out, and gave an old tramp
printer $40 and told him to go ahead and
run ont half "A sheet. It's all we could Ito
under The circumstances. and we beg the
Indulgence of our subscribers. Next week
we shall he all right. and we promise an
ISSUE Of the Mckee which will make III,
sand NY IN fifty directions.