The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-13
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
The Enterprising Founder still Maintain
His WeII-Earned Supremacy.

The EnterprisIng Founder still Maintains
His welI-Earned Supremacy.
The following items. says the Detroit
Free Press, are extracted from the las: |
issue Of the Arizona Kicker:
Poor FLY!-Our contemporary down |
the street has still another cause to wish |
he 1ould attend our funeral. Wednes- |
day morning we received the first and |
only paper cutter ever seen in this 10
cality, and all day long the Office was
crowded with interested sightscers, each
one of whom had word in praise of our
enterprise.
We don't want to appear vain or boast
full, but we feel that we may be excused
for observing that every step we have
thus far taken has exhibited spirit of
enterprise totally unknown in this re-
giou before our advent. We have sew
eral more in view, and hope to continue
to merit the praise SO literally lavished
upon our efforts
THEY SKIP. - Three months ago
Colonel A. b. Dawson and wife arrived
in town and rented the yaller-faced
adobe on Piute Place as a residence. The
colonel gave out that he was here as the
agent of an English syndicate, and the
way he did lord it around was awful to
see. In order to show his dislike for US,
because we refused to puff him except
at advertising rates, he gave ''low
coffee" and invited everybody else in
town who could raise pair of boots to
stuff his pants into. We were dead cut
left out in the cold-knocked out.
We have no desire to injure any one,
and we have never been charged with
meanness. The colonel took this way
TO lay us out, and so simply to discover
how great he was, and how we must
bow before him, we picked up his
record Saturday evening the couple
skipped out. Had they not done so they
would have been arrested Monday, as
he is an escaped jail-bird and she a
swindler. We don't want to give the
impression that if we are not invited to
all the high teas, low coffces, rum
punches. etc, given in town that we
will communicate with pinkcrton at
once but still it is just as well not to
snub us too sharply. We own white
t shirt and have learned to eat with a
t fork. and our presence won't mar the
! harmony of any occasion.
JIMS WAY.-The verdict of the jury
in Jim Stevens case was, as might have
been expected, in favor of the defend
ant Mr.. Kclso, the Ohio man who was
, plaintiff in the case, has made no friends
here by his hasty and inconsidcrate
, action, and in time will regret i. He
fh.AC "a
hat, although he must have known what
l.. the re ult would be. This defiance on
q his part shows him to be a person of
poor Judgment. Several shots were
= fired at the hat but it was a bullet from
Jim Ways revolver which knocked it
;, into the street.
It The Kicker does not approve Of row.
h dyism on the street, and is he champion
q of courtesy towards strangers, but each
}. western town has its custom and we
have ours, and the tenderfoot who
, comes here will do well to fit himself tc
Il circumstances.
O SOLD AGAIN. We had business over
at the Elbow the other day, and our es'
e teemed contemporary saw in the fact a
d long-sought opportunity. lie sent &
d messenger around by the river road tc
get there ahead of us and offer the boy:
r $50 to draw our body up to Il limb. The
t, boys were ready enough, but when they
came to look for the body it WASH
II there. We suspected what was brewing
" and lit out.
e Do we blame our esteemed contem
l porary? Not q bit. Every man on
this way has his pcculiarities, and ever,
id other man respects them. We came
N here and found the field occupied by ;
III wretched apology for weekly paper
tc conducted bv wretched apology for ;
t human hyena. In three months W.
o. have driven him into hole and in Sly
re he was the sicilest man in all Arizona
] He wouldn't be human not to feel hur
s. in his mind-such mind as he has. II
It. has shot at us, tried to poison us, Sc
III our Office on fire, bribed our employees
e. hired assassins to Stay us and the plo
r. the other day was his latest move.
Go in, old boy! Hang an under-do
~ who won't bite, even when he know
ed he's licked!