Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
THE ARIZONA X
Editorial Machinery Sometimes sin. a

Cog.
we extract the following from the
last issue of the .Arisona Kicker. which
came out on a half-sheet:
ENfLANAroEN.-We owe our readers
an apology for the half sheet we were
obliged to Issue this week. Monday
morning, as we entered the postoffice
liter our mail, which, by the way, is
I'VE times as large as that of any other
establishment in Arizona, Mr.. Wana-
makers mar Friday, who was appointed
postmaster against the protests Of nine
tenths OF the people, came out into the
corridor and demanded a personal
apology for what the Kicker said about
nm last week. In our pioneer days.
when We lived Oh roots and hadn't a
second shirt to IL back, We used to get
down and crawl whenever requested.
We felt that we had to. We were a
tenderfoot and lacked sand. A change
cane. We haven't been doing any
creeping for the past two years. On
the contrary, we have had the revolver
and the other man has done the four
legged act.
Therefore, when Wanamaker's Friday
demanded an apology, and took us by
the ear to enforce obedience, we lit onto
him with a weight Of two tons, and had
him hollering for mercy inside of two
minutes. Before letting him up we
took his gun away, and in some manner
1t was discharged, and the bullet went
through the palm of our right hand.
The wound will prevent our using the
pen for some weeks, and we must die
tate our copy.
MORE Observation-Disclosures
man Friday has q brother named Jim,
who is loafer and q cur from way back.
We stated last week that we believed
he stole money letters from the mails
and the statement seems to have pn'
some git" into him. After we hac
licked his brother and got back to tn,
office Jim came sneaking down til,
street and fired at us through a window
He had a shotgun, but he fired so higl
that no one was touched, and he wa
out OF sight before we got to the door.
In q few days we are going on a hun
for Jim. We shall locate him and wall
in on him and slice off his ear and mai
j VII ia OAlCG UOOI. Leu ullu ICCeI
this notice as fair warning OF our inten
tons. While he didn't hit us with an
of his buckshot, the idea of such
chnckaloo firing at us with intent t
kill ratified our nerves and sent us I
bed when we ought to have been ge
ting out copy.
FURTHER EXPLANAToRY.-Some thre
weeks @ q widowed ouyasticutus el
tered this town by the dirt road al
struck us for a sit" He gave Il
name of J. Melville Graham, al
claimed to have furnished all the bra
. fodder for most Of the New York pape
+ for the last ten years. AS he offered
: work for "a per week and buy b
I. crackers and cheese from our grocer
. we didn't question him as closely as
< otherwise might. He had worked t,
/ days when we got hurt, and what d
the lop-eared brother Of a hyena do b
a so off and get drunk and lay down j,
II where Col. Ravens drove OF mu'
Il would run over him in going to wat
a. He was trampled out of sight into
~ we had to hire him dug out and burr
" but ZOE MS k1ch-OVef We coulu Ut
d issued q full sheet and got it out
~ time. We've had him carried off to G
corner Of our private burying grou1
q and shall mark his grave; but we do
mourn.
!. "THE LATEsT.-I our readers are 1
d satisfied with the above explanations
" have another to fire at them. Owl
!. to our wounded hand we could not dc
stroke OF writing. We could dictat
J. however, and we hired young Bill Ell
# son of old Reprobate Ellis, to act as o
amanuensis. We had dictated abe
n half a column when he differed with
on how to spell cordial He insist
): that it was '%corjul,' and rather than S
# the English language knocked out
ceased debating, fired Bill out, al
gave an old tramp printer $40 and to
n him to 90 ahead and run out hall
n sheet. It's all we could do under Il
/ circumstances, and we beg the inda
a gence of our subscribers. Next we
we shall be all right, and we promi
an issue of the kicker which will ma
Y the sand fly in fifty directions" Il
trOjt Free Press.