The state herald., 1891-08-28


a man and rubs his fur the wrong wny
we want him to show up with u club
or gun and have II out with us, and
most OF EN- are men enough TO do so,
Now and then, however, when we
observe that such or such man ought
to be strung up by the vigilance com
mittce to make more room for coyotes
and rattlcsnakes, he hunts up Hank
Brown, the one-eyed, one horse shys-
ter lawyer and sues us for libel Such
u man is Pete Foster, who began
$4,000 suit against us yesterday
for defamation of character. Ie
gods. but think of It. A cnppcr,
thief, liar and eX-convict injured
In his character in this town, and in
jured $4,000 worth! Why didn't the
old coward come in with club and
show his manhood? Why didn't he bor'
row gun and pop ut us through u
window? Why didn't he send us word
he'd pop us on sight, and then skip out
Of town on the pretcnse that his mother
was dying?
It's our turn now! We give him
three days TO Withdraw the suit. II
he doesn't do it we shall go to buckle
berrying. He will be our huckleberry.
II we happen to run across Hank Brown
we shall gather him in rs well. Whats
left of the pair after we get through
had better leave town or we shsn't try
TO hold the boys In. We've been very
patient and kind with this libel suit
business. We've let twenty different
people sue us and bother and annoy.
We've got through now. This is the
end. We nrc willing TO be shot ut, but
we won't be bothered with lawsuits.
II you won't shoot, we will.
A WORD OF ADvICE.-Wedncsd
afternoon, when Maj Thomas rode
into town and brought the news that
an unknown white man was lying
dead In the hall, our coroner was so
drunk that he could not take
charge of the case. This is only
one of several occasions, and we
think the time has now arrived
for us to observe that II Dick Blodgett
doesn't brace right up and head in Il
new direction something will happen.
Out this way we never wait to impench
an incompetent official, nor Is com
mittee appointed to ask him to resign.
He is pulled up 10 limb and then
given chance TO git, II he doesn't
take IL, the next pull leaves him up
there.
In this instance the dead man turned
out to he old Jim Carnahan, who ought
10 have turned up his toes long ago,
and who went out and died 10 get rid
of his own company. Hut that's no
excuse for Dick. Business is business,
and he has got to be sober enough to
tell the dead body Of man from a mule
and proceed accordingly or shadow
will fall across his path.
NEVER DID lT-Our esteemed con
temporary came out in n double-lesdcd
editorial yesterday charging us with
many bad things, and advising the peo.
pie of this town to shoot MS full of lead.
We think he wrote the article under
u misunderstanding. lie knew that
we knew he had been In the
Ohio penitentiary for stealing two cows
and lot of pork He supposed We
were the only one possessed OF the
knowledge, and when he found the
story all around town the other day lac
jumped TO the conclusion that we had
betrayed his confidence. We never did
IL. Bill overton spouted II while half
drunk, and the way Bill came 10 know
was because he went to the same prison
at the same time for stealing forty
bushels of wheat Of the same farmer.
We think we know what editorial
courtesy is, and we aim 10 practice II.
Our contemporary ought 10 have known
that we wouldn't give him away Ia any
such fashion. We are sorry the facts
came out, but they won't hurt his cir
culation any. He's got seventy six
subscribers anyhow, and us they are
all relatives, they will stick by him.
No, lo.--As is well known 10 our lo-
cal readers, Reube Smith, general