The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
EDITORIAL Enterprise Always Hits EN-

EDITORIAL Enterprise Always Hits EN- in
the West.
We extract the following from the last |
issue of The Arizona Kicker:
ALWAYS In THE LKAD.-Last week we
established new department in The Kicker
that of answering questions concerning dis
puted points on games of chance, as well as
making decisions thereon These games will
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.
This department will 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
cahber.
The fact that such department hit the
bulls eye is evidenced by the fact that we
have added twenty-one new subscribers
within a week, and they are still coming.
We were intending to devote this space to
religious news, but after looking the ground
over, and discovering that there was none to
chronicle, we gave way to the urgent de-
mands of the boys and instituted the new de-
parture. 1t is the general belief that this
will do more to boom our town than if we
had secured $50, 900 for new government
building. All communications intended for
this department should be addressed: Gam
bling Department of The Kicker" Write
only on one side of the paper, and do not at
tempt to write with blood.
A GREAT IMPRovEMENT.-Col. Obediah
Shaw, our popular register of deeds, has pre-
sented us with a new 3S-caliber revolver of
Smith & Wesson make, as a token of his es-
TEEN and affection, and we feelas proud as
boy with his first pair of boots.
We have been, as some of our friends
know, greatly hampered in our editorial work
| during the past year by an old fashioned re-
volver which could never be depended on in
an emergency. 1t was out of repair all
along the line, and when we brought it down
| on man we never felt sure which of us
would get the contents 1t was also too large
! for our pistol pocket, and on three or four
4 occasions the other man had opened fire be-
fore we could get it out.
When Arkansas Bill met us in front of
Taylor's bank one day last summer and
opened fire he had pulled the trigger three
times before we could get our old shooting
iron on line with his left lung. We didn't
much expect to drop him then, as the hammer
was out of true, but when we pulled he tum-
bled, and he lived long enough to tell Us that
he made the mistake of his life when he set
out to remove the editorial head of Arizona's
great weekly newspaper.
This new weapon adds to our editorial zeal
and enterprise, and puts The Kicker on a
more certain foundation. We have had only
one weeks practice, and yet we can draw ii
and send two bullets ripping through fell
low beings carcass while an average school
boy can get his mouth puckered to begin the
first line of Henry Clay's great speech. We
: shall not be satisfied until we have done O
. little better than that-five seconds better
: Meanwhile, any one hankering for our scalI
can find us at the usual place, prepared to dc
, the best we can under the circumstances.
IT RESULTED.--We were born with a spirit
of fair play in our composition which ha:
1 never grown less. We want to see everybody
and everything have fair show. For thi
reason, when half a dozen of our prominent
citizens came to us one day last week anC
, suggested necktie party to remove Sow
> boy Jack" as he calls himself, from shi
, sphere ON earth to one great deal highe
up, we suggested that he first be given show
to inaict his presence on the people of Tomb
J stone or Tucson. He had been with US tire
weeks, terroriZing old men, women and boy
9 by his wild shooting and being too read,
! with his pop when a dispute arose in a saloon
The assertion of our lopeared contemporar,
S that we wanted to save him until he had sub
scribed for The Kicker is a declaration worth,
5 of Satan himself
1t was suggested that we call upon tn
gentleman named within the quotation marks
and throw out q hint that he bad better walk
! We did So lie received us with chilling DC
: likeness, listened to our words of wisdom, AM
S then gave us thirteen seconds to get dow
S three pairs of stairs As he had the drop o.
3 US, we got: and as he didn't shoot it is likel
= that we saved second or two We warne
y him what the result would be, and the resul
: has resulted. On Tuesday night score o
: more of us leading citizens made a call O
Cowboy Jack. He was somewhat surprised
but would have done well enough had he bee
e given time He was taken from the o. &
Y saloon to Hangman's tree, given the usua
a time to undergo a change of heart, and the
hauled up and left to his reflections w
spoke to him personally just before he wa
; lifted, referring to our former conversation
!. and it pleased US to hear him reply that w
were dead right in our deductions, and tina
K if he had his life to live over again he woul
! subscribe for The Kicker and pay at leas
. two years in advance.-Detroit Free Press.