Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-01
The Arizona Kicker.

scEp AaAIN.-There is a certain eIene,, A,
TINS town which lie deep and lasting disgrac.
70 II. Itis composed of men who hayen't "a.
SAND 10 strike from the shoulder or pull A cun
and let flicker. When the Hiojs- pitches into
man and rubs his fur the wrong say n. nan,
MN to show up with q club or a gun ana b.ve
~ out with US ana most Of EN- re men euough
10 do so. "sH
Now and then. however, when We obserye ,b.,
s .1 OF such a man ought 20 b. strung up by
the vigilance committee to make mora room
Tor coyotes and rattlesnakes he hunts nm Hank
brown, the one-eyeu, one-horse SINISTER LAWYER
and sues us for libel. such a man l. Te,a
roster, who began $4,000 suit against us
Yesterday ior defamation If character. Ye
gods but think OF it A capper. thief. liar
and en-conyict injured in has character in ,b,.
town. and injured $4,000 worth Why didn a
,ne Ola coward come IN with club and show
MS manhood Why didn't he borrow a cun
anu pop at US through a window? Why didn't
he send US word he'd pop us ON sight ana them
skip out of town on the pretense that his u.other
was dying
It's our turn now. We give him three dav.
TO withdraw the suit. II he doesn't do II va
shalI go hnckleberrying. He will be our huckle-
perry. III We happen 20 run across Hank
Brown we shall gather him in US we'll. What's
ieft OF the pair after We get through had better
leave town. or We shan't try to hold the bovs in
we We peen very patient aud kind with this libel
SUIT business We've let twenty different peo-
pie sue us and bother and annoy No. o.,
through now. This is the end. We are wiling
70 DC shot AT, but We won't be bothered u1t6
law suits. III you won't shoot we will!
A WORD or ADy1cE.-Mednesday afternoon
when Maj Thomas rode into town and bronohs
the news that an unknown white man xss ~,
DEAD on the hill our coroner was SO drunk I'D
ne could not take charge Of the casa Thi. h
only one Of several occasions and we thinl ,ha
time has now arrived for Us 20 observe that n
uaff ds.ssSr. L.
Ia a new direction something will happen. ora
this way We never wait TO impeach an incom,,.
tent ofhcial, nor IL a committee auuo,rteg =,
ask him TO resign. He is pulled up 10 = l,,nh
ana let down again three or four times and then
given chance to git. III ho doesn' 4 tai a N a..
next pull leaves him up there
Ia TINS instance the dead man turned ONT IN
De old jim Carnahan, who ought TO have tnrn.d
up his toes long ago, and who went ont "a
aieu 70 ger rld OF hs own company. But that's
no excuse FOR Dick. Business is business "a
he has got to be sober enough 10 tell Dr. 80
bod.s OF a man from a mule and proceed g.
cordingly or a shadow will fall across his n.th
NEVER DID ir.-Our esteemed contemnorary
cathe OUT IN double-leaded editorial yester-
day charging us with many bad thin5s ana
advising the people Of this town 10 shoot rs f,Ii
OF lead. "' iu''
We think he wrote the article under . mis-
understanding. He knew that We Knew he baa
oeen IN the Ohio penitentiary for stealing two
A. =
the only one possessed of the knowledge. and
when he found the story all around town the
other day he jumped TO the conclusion that We
mad betrayed hls confidence. We never Ala a,
Bali Overton spouted il while half DRUM and
the way Bill came to know was because he xene
TO the same prison ut the same time for stealing
forty bushels of wheat of the same farmer
We think we know what editorial courtesy
Is. and we aim 70 practice it, Our Conference
rsry ought TO have known that we wouIin't
give him away IN any such fashion. We are
sorry the facts came out. but they won't hurt
MS circulation any. He's got seventv-six sinh
scribers anyhow, and as they are ali relatiyss
they will stick BY him
No. lo.-As is well known TO our local resa-
ers. Reube smith, general loafer who was a IA
miiiar ngure IN this town, IL no more on earth.
1esterday we PAID Henry Towner, the popular
undertaken, sS6 in cash for Reube's burial ex-
penses and his headboard is already set M i'm
our private graveyard. IL is marked No. 10.
We had nothing in particular against Reube.
While he had refused TO subscribe 10 the
hackeT we didn't lay IL up against him. man
who can't read has no use for a newspaper.
Two or three weeks ago when we wrote \
brief local in regard TO his biting Jim smslIs
ear OF We didn't bear down on Reube very
heavy. We said We thought he'd lived
here long enough and that he'd have -
either skip or hang, but We made il rather
light for him. Sunday afternoon Reuben
found US In the United States Hotel ana snst
In our hat and pulled our nose and slspnsd
our jaw. That's where he made the mistaks "a
his life. He thought we were a COYOTE and he
probably crossed the dark river still carving
that belief. Wepulied on Reuben and dropped
MN IN his tracks As IN the nine other instAu-
ees, we had him buried on our own Io, nsis III
expenses, and shall keep the headboard IN sosI
repair.