The National tribune., 1890-10-16
The Arizona Kicker.

We extract tho following from the Last Ia.

We extract the following from the last Issue
Of The ArizOn, Kicker:
The; Got Left-Feeling tho need OF few
days rest from brain work, we hied oursef 10
Jims y ak last week. 20 remain about 10 days.
Soon after supper a stranger approached us aud
gave Us "A hint that the boys were planning "a
serenade, and that VIC had better have speech
ready.
in this Western country some words have n
double meaning. "serenade" may mean
sweet soft music by the band, with call from
lot OF jolly good fellows, or 1t may mean n
visit from the gang who are provided with
rope but no music. In order TO be on the safe
side w took up q temporary home in tn icket,
and from thence discovered that this was 10
be q rope serenade. Some OF the boys from
Johngon's Ranch had determined 20 lynch us
as great moral warning, bot while they were
hunting for us around the hotel We were me-
anderinR through the jack pines and midnight
darkness TO safer quarters.
In on cLec, NO don't blame the boys so
much. IA occasional hanging adds zest and
gusto 10 this Western life, and IL 10 very rare
that the victims friends can claim that any
mistake was made. In another sense the boys
are 10 be blamed for their lack Of taste. We
have 10 on good authority that they meant TO
hang Us with an old mule chain. There were
80 OF them in the crowd. We make no
boasts, but let our readers watch for develop
iuCubs. VIC u nave bhhs4ii1 anu uoJbCilfeS mere
after at least 81 of them, before the week is
out aud thea wo shall borrow shotgun and
20 on hunt after the odd one.
Sold Again.-Our esteemed contemporary has
| made another dismal failure. On Monday he
came out in double loaded two-column article
Oh the Wharton shooting case aud tried bib best
10 prove that we had an active hand In 1t and
were responsible for Judge Johnsons death
| At the C0rOner's inquest, held on tho same af-
ternoon, Major Bliss testified:
II was sitting at table In the Red Cross
saloon with the Editor of The Kicker We
were there to talk over the Mckinley bill and
| 10 take the initiatory steps toward establishing
another Sunday. school. Judge johnson came
| Ia. He was pretty drunk. He saw Bob Whar.
| ton at table beyond us and pulled his gun
| The Editor Of The Kicker kindly asked him
| TO put 1t up, and offered him year . subscrip-
ton 10 the paper TO go home and take q nap.
The Judge refused aud pressed forward TO get "a
shot. Next moment Wharton dropped him"
| This was the truth aud the whole truth, and
yet our jealousp ated contemporary, hoping he
| had "A hold on us, tried his hardest to make out
| that but for us there would have been no shoot
ing! We used TO refer to Ii im as tOothless knock
kneed. bOw.legged, lop-eared. hump backed.
| whitc-livered, cross eyed. and so on. We have
a mortgage on his whole outfit, and VIC used to
| threaten TO f0recOse on IL. We used to meet
him on the street and scare him into kneeling
down aud begging our pardon. We now let
him have his own way. Some day We will
bury him in our private graVeyard-some day
when he has tired us completely out.
They are Wr0ng.-Those of our citizens who
are asserting that our late trouble with the
postmaster was caused by jealousy of his place
on our part are doing US a grave Injustice.
True, We were a candidate for postmaster, and
true, also, We are a mighty sight better man for
| the place than the present incumbent, but we
are not jealous. Wsnamsker refused to appoint
us and we refuse TO wear, Wanamaker's clothing.
| It's an oven thing thus far
The trouble began soon as this man en-
tered the pOstoffice He held back our mail
and made us weary in many other ways. We
pounded him half TO death one day and for
two months he was model postmaster. Then
he got sassy and shot at us, and We left bullet
| in his shoulder. That lasted him until the