Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-03
THE ARlzoNA KICKER.
strange Thinge Do Happen in the wild
West SaEctum.

strange 1hsnSe 10 happen In the Wild
West SaEctam.
We take the following items from q
half-sheet of the AS-izond Kicker:
Nor OUR FAULf.-WhiIe we stand
ready to apologize to our readers for is
suing half-sheet this week. we at the
same time declare it to be no fault of
ours. Last week was one full of ex-
element to US.
Early Monday morning Col Stephoe,
manager of the CULVER Silver Lode,
called on us in regard to that article
denouncing his enterprise as a swindle.
He fired four shots and We two, and we
lost most of the day in getting q sur
geon and assisting to dig the bullets
out of the Colonies left shoulder. He
laid it all to his gun, but we know
better. He was ratified from the mo-
ment he.entered the Office door, The
man who comes to lick the editor is
bound to be more or less ratified.
AN EDITORIAL Ass.-Yesterday fore
noon, just as we were making up the
fourth page of the greatest American
weekly on the face of this earth, Maj.
Keppling steered drove of bronchos
around to our Office to show us what
sort of horsefesh could be raised on
wolf-grass.
After we had evinced our admiration
: the Major offered to bet US $40 even up
that we could not stay on the back of q
certain spotted broncho over thirty
seconds. ASS that we we're, we &C
cepted the def. Because we own a
private graveyard and can bulldoze the
postmaster, we thought ourselves some
pumpkins. We reached that bronchois
back. We stayed there just six secondA
We didn't come to for twenty minutes,
and at the present writing we fully be-
Geye that both arms, both legs, and all
our ribs are broken. It is needless to
add that the Major scooped in our
. twenty.
AN UNFAIR ADvANTAGE.-The news
of our assinine adventure spread rap
idly over town, and, as was to be ex-
pected, one of our enemies determined
to take advantage of our physical stu
alton to pay off an old grudge. Cactus
Tom, would-be bad man, who has re-
ceived several warnings through The
KICKER to get, came over and found Us
on our back helpless, and he was about
to divide Us into two equal parts with
his howie-knife, when our female book
keeper, stenographer, typewriter, and
editorial assistant-all combined in one
raised an alarm, and the boys came In
from the Jackdaw saloon and took
Thomas out to the usual TRUSTING place
and choked him to better land.
While we are not hurt, we own to being
considerably upset.
He CANNOT ESCAPE. Wednesday af-
ternoon, after being rubbed down with
arnics and Teplastered with sticking
salve to hold US together, we took a
seat with our feet on the stove to direct
our half-breed foreman how to make
up page, several people came in, and
all had more or less to do with the
stove. Just after the last one had de-
parted there was sudden loud explo-
sion, and the top of the stove hit and
smashed the ceiling, white other pieces
few into the grocery, butcher, harness,
hardware, and millinery departments.
While we were not physically injured,
our nervous system received further
shock. and it was seven minutes before
we could ask what had happened.
Some one of the four or five callers
dropped can of powder into the stove,
calculating not only to take our life,
but to destroy a great and growing
weekly paper. We shall soon learn
who is the guilty party. If we can't
bring it home to anyone in particular,
then we shall go cunning for the whole
crowd.-DetrOit Free Press.