The Portland daily press., 1891-06-15
the ARIZONA KICKER.
An. Editor Possessed with a Very
Worthy Motto.
New York Wor'd.l

New York Wor.d.l
hETRosPECTIvR.-The first night we en-
tered this town we slept under a wagon on
apache avenue. We felt tough, we looked
tough and we had just fifteen cents cash
capital. We'd walked twenty-eight miles
that day to get somewhere, and after get
ting there the prospects didn't seem to i'm
prove. We were sustained, however, by a
determination to come out on top of the
crowd If we lost both legs in the hustle.
That determination carried us through
From the very first issue of The Kicker
we took for our motto "Ex dono fama
semper vivat," which used to mean in our
neighborhood in New England, "Tell the
truth without fear or favor, even if you
never get an office or own dog" We
have stuck to that motto, and while it has
made us some enemies it has also made us
host Of friends and power in the land.
In pursuance of our policy we now wish to
say word about "The Great Arizona
Home Provider company" which is adyer-
Using extensively in the east. Its latest
scheme is to advertise city lots in blue Hill
City" at twenty dollars each. The "city"
is represented as a hustling young town
three railroads. two banks, one theater,
5000 people, and bound to be the Chicago
other day. When we returned the COM
pany offered us twenty-five dollars to keep
still. We denounce it as fraud from ton
to bottom, and warn the public against in
vesting.
A POINTER FOR THE BoYS.-There are
three or four tough men in this town
-'wayback toughs, with carloads of sand
in their systems-but there are 400 would
for rln5 Hryh 81 1AtN
never can be. 1t isn't in them, and they
are not in it, They go round splitting
over their shoulders and blufing the
Cinnamon and half breeds, but they take
good care not to run up against the man
whose father owned the spring which
was the fountain head of Fighting creek.
In fatherly way we want to say to these
boys; Don't. It's waste of time and
raw material. The goods are cotton mixed
and the dye won't stand. Come off the
perch and drop your claims, and let every
body size you up for what you really are
lot of old dead beats who ought to be
driven to the sand hills"
In this connection we wish to briefly re-
fer to the little affair of Sunday, which our
contemporary will no doubt misstate in
his usual fashion. We were sitting on the
steps of the postofiice waiting for the place
to open at the usual hour. when an indi-
Vidual known around town as "Holy Smoke
Bengal Tiger Steve johnson" came along.
No one knows where he came from, and
some folks have been very much afraid of
him. He picked his teeth with grizzly's
claw, carried a bowie knife and claimed to
shoot two handed.
In writing up "The Buffers" of this
town few weeks ago we asked this Smoky
Tiger, or whatever he calls himself, what
prison he had run from? He's been prom
Using the boys to slice off our right ear,
have it broiled in Bill Taylor's restaurant,
and then publicly feed it to Steve Akers
Virginia foXhound. We haven't been
greatly worried, and we didn't skip cog
when we saw the Tiger rolling along to-
ward us. He came to a halt in front Of ns
and tried to look awfully wicked-real old
Rocky Mountain wicked, with the gore
thrown in as chrome.
We didn't SILVER
Then he smiled-a facsimile of the grin
Kit Carson used to put on as he counted
up his dead Injuns and whistled for the
buzzards to begin work.
We didn't unwind or lose any buttons.
Then he sent his deep base roar down to
his feet and brought it up again to tell us
that our ear was his. He reached for it,
but he never got there. We rose up and
knocked Smoky off his pins at one punch,
and then we walked on him and sat down
on him, and hammered him from head to
heel until he roared like a calf and whined
like coyote. We have his two revolyers
and bowie knife on our table as we write
We are waiting for him to prove property
and take them away.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to OBJ
serve in this connection that there will be
a little bee or gathering or convention or
some such thing on Pawnee square Satur-
day evening. Most of our prominent citi-
zens will be there. Several of them will
be provided with ropes. There will be vari-
GUS committees appointed to wait on vari-
Gus disagreeable individuals in this town,
and ask them how long they intend to re-
main. If longer than two hours the COM
Hsittee viii bring them to the bee md they
will be argued with. The Bengal Buffer"
is on the list to receive callers