Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Surprises that Come in the Life of an IL
dependent Western Journalist.

Surprises that Come in the Life of an In
dependent Western Journalist
Following are extracts from late issue
OF the Arizona Kicker, copied from the
jletroit Free Press:
A foolish idea: Certain people in this
town are In the habit of shooting into he
Kicker office every night or TWO. in hopes
to rlddleuS. Sometimes they shoot through
window and sometimes through door.
and although they have always wasted
their lead we are growing tired of the
operation. 1t is foolish idea to suppose
we sleep IN any one spot IN the office on
two successive nights, and if these would
be assasslns haven't got sense enough to
haul off we shall go into ambush outside
some night and gather couple more sub
Jects for our private graveyard.
Giving him show: During the after
| noon Of Wednesday last, while out with
the boys on the great rabbit hunt in
| Strawberry Valley, we several times felt
the whlz OF bullets and wondered who
could be so careless. 1t seemed that ex-
Alderman Johnson, who was forced to re-
| sign when TIE Kicker showed him ND as
a brlbe-taker, WASH t shooting at jack-rab.
bits, but at US. He sent at least half a
dozen bullets In our direction before the
boys caught on to him. Then they would
have hung him for US. We believe in Civ
ing everybody show out west We be-
lleve that is the way to build up a country
We begged johnson off and gave him a
SHOW to repent of the error of his ways.
and we hope he will have sense enough to
profit by it. If not, he will be found
playing pendulum some morning from the
| limb OF a tree.
Explanatory: The third column of the
second page of this issue will be found
blank: 1t is not our fault Colonel John
Kyloff, one of the old pioneers of this
town, died last week, and his widow sent
IN an obituary notice which Just filed the
column. We thought it read pretty
strong when we set it up, but as the
Colonel was the third man to subscribe to
this paper and pay in advance we intended
to let it slide. The forms were ready
when a detective arrived from Portland TO
identify the Colonel as athief embezzler.
blgamlst AMI allround bad man. His
proofs We're so straight that we hadn t the
cheek to publish the obituary. We sent
a bouquet to the widow with our COM
pllments, bat that was the best we could
do.
They objected: The twenty-five hands
over on Smith & Wiley rancho are cas-
lily stamped. One of them is named Had
don, and two or three weeks since we
commented on the size of his mouth. We
did it entirely in his praise, and as we be-
iieve him to be the only man in Arizona
who can hold pint of water in his mouth
His friends got a wrong impression, how
ever, and the whole crowd rode over on a
personal visit. We didn't go off fishing
because they were coming; it was simply a
coincidence. We didn't borrow a mule
and go off on a galiop because we didn t
want to see the boys, but because we
were limited as to time We didn't wait
until midnight to return becauee we had
any fear, but the fish bit so well we hated
to leave EN-. Some day, when the cow
boys have time rrand we have time, and
every thing is all right, we shall hope for
long visit and friendly chat.