Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-13
THE ARIZONA Klckre.
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we extract the following from "a. "a.
issue Of the Arizona Kicker, which csTn.
out on half-shoet:
ExPLANArogY. We owe on. uo,5.-
an apology for the half-she.t 20 80
ooiigeo 10 issue this week. Nond.,
morning as we entered the nost-omo.
aiter our mail, which. by the way :,
i've 'lines as large as that Of anv otbe
establishment in Arizona, Mr.. Wapa
maker man Friday, who was appointed
postmaster against the protests Of nino
tehths OF our people, came ont In ~.
corridor and demanded a narsona
apology for what the Kicker said ~,
MN last week. In our pioneer davs
"hen we lived on roots and hadn't a 900
ono shirt to our back, we used to 90
aown and crawl whenever requested
we telt that We had 10. We we're a ton
oer-foot and lacked sand. change
came VIC haven't been doing anv
creeping for The past two years. On the
contrary we have had the revolver anS
the other man has done the four.leooed
act.
therefore. when Wanamaker's FRIDAY
demanded an apology, and took US by
the ear to enforce obedience, we lit ontS
MIN with weight OF two tons and hao
MIN hoilering for mercy inside OF two
minutes Before letting him up we took
MS gun away, and in some manner 4,
was discharged, and the bullet wen,
through the palm OF our right hand
Inc wound will prevent our using the
pen for some weeks, and we must die.
tate our copy.
MORE EXPLANATORY. - Wananaker,.
man Friday has brother named Jim
VINO Is loafer and cur from way back.
we stated last week that we believed he
stole money letters from the mails. and
the statement seems to have put soma
git" into him. After we had licked
his brother and got back to the office
Jim came sneaking down the street and
bred at us through window. He had
shotgun, but he fired so high that no
one was touched, and he was out OF sight
before we got to the door.
In few days we are going on a hun.
for jim. We shall locate him and walk
In on him and slice off his ear and nail
1t on our Office door. Let him accent
this notice as fair warning OF our inten-
tions. While he didn't hit us with anv
OF his buckshot, the idea of such chuck
aloo firing at us with intent to kill rat
tied our nerves and sent US to bed when
we ought to have been getting out copy.
FURTHER ExPLASAroRY-Som three
weeks ago wild-eyed guyasticutis en-
tered this town by the dirt road and
struck US for sit" He gave the name
OF j. Melville Graham, and claimed to
have furnished all the brain fodder for
most Of the New York papers for the last
ten years. AS he offered to work for
four dollars per week and buy his crack
ers and cheese at our grocery, we didn't
question him as closely as we otherwise
might. He had worked two days
when we got hurt, and what did
the lop-eareG brother Of hyena do
but go off and get drunk and lay
down just where Colonel Ravens
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 troubles we had to hire him dug
out and buried. But for his kick-over
we could have issued full sheet and
got it out on time. We've had him
carted off to one corner of our private
burying ground, and shall mark his
grave; but We don't mourn.
THE LATEST. II our readers are not
satisfied with the above explanations
we have another to fire at them. Owing
to our wounded hand we could not do
stroke OF writing. We could dictate,
however, and we hired young Bill Ellis,
son of old Reprobate Ellis, to act as our
amanuensis We had dictated about
half column when he differed with Us
on how to spell cordial. He insisted
that it was corjul, and rather than see
the English language knocked out we
ceased debating, fired Bill out, and gave
an old tramp printer SO and told him tG
90 ahead and run out half a sheet. It's
all we could do under the circumstances,
and we beg the indulgence of our sub
scribers. Next week we shall he all
right, and we promise an issue of the
Kicker which will make the sand fly in
fifty directions. : Detroit Free Press.