The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Lively Days in Arizona Newspaper
se'' Life.

rAvely Days IN Arl&on9 Newspaper
,-v MEAN BUSINESS. Our contemporary
W. ont last week and laid claim to a
cS Sde circulation of $500 copies. We
-r;IIing that he shall do a reasonable
Ae Aunt of living, but such stupendous fal.
s Wss1l bet 500 to $50 that he hasn't got
1000 circulation eo-
w eIl bet 800 to a cent that his actual
-..o,lation. counting in all deadheads, is
nJ Tnrtber. We'll give him our check for
nm # he dares to take advantage of any of
sba above opportunities to make more
W. than he has seen for twenty years
before.
~ The Kicker writes to ask if there are
wv churches in this locality. Does he i'm
o." ono ms to belong to the Cannibal islands,
ne course there are! That is, there is one
.-o,,nd somewhere, and we've heard talk
atanotber If the writer had read his copy
- The Kicker as closely as he ought he
.rond have remembered the case where
chortv Pete sat on the church steps and
-ut a bnllet through Hank Jackson's nose
tb;rtv wards away. Churches! We should
nile, Services have not been held very
recularlv since old man Davis spent one
mole niclt breaking out the windows.
hrt the boys are liable to catch a preacher
most any day and put him at work.
A CAE.DU.-The story afloat on the
.+rcets Yesterday TO the effect that we
hn
to1n ms. llve been started to affect
nrices o- tie 11ul" market There was
not the l,ae: lat If truth in it. There ISL t.
tbe s!j-..cs1 ,Xcc!~c for his living, but W
srn,,,l., Wiz continue to do SO in ORE, r.
e. sn;- Tie ,".o"ton inhabitants Of tne
I-niteI states Nc can't see any Other Of
jet
r.~.sra - - We shah visit the ;,p'-
noasr,~ tomorrow t. inquire why IN Ir;,:~
tr9ke- III GaVs 1o1 q copy u The NO.
to.tt ...r~. Iuai twelve miles. i. -
fy 1u9t. - rs al, ana will quite Likely 80
+fr7ul Il, draw lis @un Oh u. II he le. -,
we sla,l -cYr likely decide 10 kill him H..
bayp a.o. v.rG H. Everybody say W.
bav4 behaved the matter altogether t-o
Ion- -,r b. goo! 81 the p2stOlfice depart
inert.
NJ S7or We understand that Colonel
Smile. who has oaeu down on The K;c6. :
evers.l,. ,s. showed that the capital 2.
asset ot Tic Great Arizona Land Goa.
Danv" consisted sc.cly # two acres OF sand
and a ;l,:f u long Icg-ed boots, spent nur"
than two hours tire Other day trying t. -;
jim TAYLOR t. stop LIS subscription to- th.~
naa,r The object WIS to make Us fu:i
bal but it didn't work Jim no. rnh
dotes on The Kicker. but can't hardly VAT
for publication day to come around. 81
sides he tried il on us last summer. a..d
how G;I he come Out> II took US hall =
dav 10 find ann. but after he was found y
didn't take him two minutes to subscribe
again. We don't compel a man to sui,
scribe. hut after he's become a subscri ~
he he's got to have mighty good reasons lot
throwing up lis hand. Indeed, he's goa 70
OWL mule that can outrun ours.
RETRACTION.-The policy OF The Kicker
since the first issue has been to stat
things fairly ard truthfully, and whenever
we have discovered that a published item
has done any one injustice We have not been
slow to follow it with an explanation salts.
factory TO the party acgricved Last WEI.
We had local item TO the effect that solIie
miserable wretch had robbed Major Smith
clothesline of four shirts, and we indulgeI
in the hope that he would speedily lr
caught and given a dance on the head OF a
barrel.
1t seems that we were mistaken, and tbs.
major feels that he las been place! in 4,
false p"sition to the public The fact is. ~,
he wishes rs to state, kr does not own four
shirts but only two and neither Of thes4 j.
white one They are old blue flannel
shirts much tie worse tor wear What
was really sto,en was \ Navajo blau&ct.
and vt arr G,;I to make this retract:n,
and Sc, the major right before this com
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