The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-28
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
An Editor Possessed with a Very Worth
Motto.

An Editor Possessed with a Very Worthy
Motto.
RETRosPECTTvE.-T 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 10 mean in our
neighborhood in New England, Tell tho
truth without fear or favor, even il you
never get an Office or own a dog" We
have stuck to that motto. and while it has
made us some enemies 10 has also made Us
a host Of friends and power in the land.
In pursuance Of our policy we now wish to
say a word about "The Great Arizona
Home Provider company" which is adyer-
Using extensively in the east. It's latest
scheme is 20 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,
1900 people, and bound to be the Chicago
OF the west. We rode out to the site the
other day. When we returned the com
pany offered rs twenty-five dollars % keep
still. We denounce it as fraud from top
TO bottom, and warn the public against in
vesting.
a POINTER FOR TIE BOYs-There are
three or four tough men in this town
way back toughs, with carloads Of sand
in their systems-but there are 400 would
be toughs who are not bit tough and
never can De. 1t isn't in them, and they
are not in it. They 20 round splitting
over their shoulders and blufftng 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 a fstherly way we want TO say TO these
boys: Don't It's a waste of time and
raw material. The goods are cotton mixed
and the dye won't stand Come OF the
perch and drop your claims, and let every
body size you up for what you really are
q lot Of old dead b>ass who ought 70 be
driven 20 the sand hills"
In this connection ve wish % briefly re-
fer 70 the little affair Of Sunday, which orr
contemporary will no doubt raiztats ia
his usual fashion. We were sitting On The
steps Of the postoflce waiting for the place
TO open At the usual hour. when an iRdi-
vtdual known around town szs -Eoly SMOKE
Bengal Tiger Steve johnson" came along.
No one knows where 10 came from. add /
sonefclks have been very mrlch afraid sf 1
hirl. he picked hIs teeth with n grizzty's /
claw. carried a bowie knife and elaimed - |
shoot two handed.
In writing up The PsuTerxS Of this 1
town few weeks ago z'e asked tEis SMOKY 1
Tger, or Whatever be calls hIurselE whzs /
prison he had run from Hen been prom 4
tsing the BOYS % s6ce Ct cur right ear,
hare Il broiIed in BIZ TEJAor's restaurant, !
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greatly worried. and Ee didn't Ekip = cog
when re saw tie Tiger rolling sloog to
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