Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-14
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
The Entsrprising Founder sem Maintains
His Wen-karned Supremacy.

The Entsrprising Founder sam Maintains
His WeIl-karned Supremacy.
The following items, says the Detroit
Free Press, are extracted from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
Pooh FLYl-0ur contemporary down
the street has still another cause to wish
he could attend our funeral. Wednes.
day morning we received the first and
only paper cutter ever seen in this To-
cality, and all day long the Office was
crowded with interested sightseers, each
one of whom had a 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 50 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 residence. The
colonel gave out that he was here as the
agent of an English syndicate, and the
way he did lord 1t around was awful to
see. In order to show his dislike for us,
because we refused to puff him except
Mt advertising rates, he gave q slow
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-lnocked 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 q
swindler. We don't want to give the
impression that If we are not invited to
all the high teas, low coffees, rum
punches, ETC., given in town that we
will communicate with Pinkerton at
once, but still it is just as well MOTTO
snub us too sharply. We own white
shirt and have learned to eat with a
fork, and our presence won't mar the
harmony of any occasion.
JM's WAY.-The verdict of the jury
in Jim Stevens case was, as might have
been expected, in fa vor Of the defend
ant. Mr.. Kelso, the Ohio man who was
plaintiff in the case, has made no friends
here by his hasty and inconsiderate
action, and in time will regret /. He
appeared on the street wearing plug
hat, although he must have known what
the re ult would be. This defiance on
his part shows him to be person OF
poor Judgment. Several shots were
fred at the hat, but it was bullet from
Jim Ways revolver which knocked it
into the street.
The Kicker does not approve OF row.
dyism on the street, and is he champion
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 to
circumstances.
SOLD AGAIN. We had business over
at the Elbow the other day, and our es-
teemed contemporary saw in the fact a
long-sought opportunity. He sent a
messenger around by the river road to
get there ahead of us and offer the boys
$50 to draw our body up to limb. The
boys were ready enough, but when they
came to look for the body it wasn't
there. We suspected what was brewing
and Lit out.
Do we blame our esteemed contem-
porary? Not a bit. Every man out
this way has his peculiarities, and every
other man respects them. We came
here and found the field occupied by q
wretched apology for weekly paper,
conducted by wretched apology for q
human hyena. In three months we
have driven him into hole, and in six
he was the sicl1est man in all Arizona.
He wouldn't be human not to feel hurt
in his mind-such n mind as he has. He
has shot at us, tried to poison, us, set
our Office on fire, bribed our employees,
hired assassins to STAY us and the plot
the other day was his latest move.
Go in, old boy! Hang an under-dog
who won't bite, even when he knows
he's licked!