Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-08
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
An Editor Possessed with a Very Worth
Motto.

An Editor Possessed with Very Worthy
Motto
RRTRosPEcTrvE.-The first night we en-
tered this town we slept under 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 il 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 SEX 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 sThe Great Arizona
Home Provider company" which is adver
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 hustling young town
three railroads. two banks, one theater,
5000 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 us twenty-five dollars to keep
still. We denounce it as fraud from top
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 cartloads of sand
in their systems-but there are 400 would
be toughs who are not bit tough and
never can be. It isn't in them, and they
are not in it. They go round splitting
over their shoulders and bluffing 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 postoffice 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.
T.. yI.x1Eo - q. q.
town few weeks ago we asked this Smoky
Tiger, or whatever he calls himself, what
prison he had run from? He's been prom
ising the boys to slice off our right ear,
have it broiled in Bill Taylor's restaurant,
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 halt in front of us,
and tried to look awfully wicked--real old
thrown in as chrome.
We didn't shiver.
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 df 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 calf and whined
like coyote. We have his two revolvers
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
mittee will bring them to the bee and they
will be argued with. The Bengal Buffer"
is on the list to receive callers-M. Quad
in New York World.