The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Everyday Incidents in Western Editorial
Life.


Life.
WILL Re HERE.-We received word
the other day from Col. John Fair
banks, who is running cactus farm
about twenty miles west of town, that
he would try and come in some time
within fortnight and shoot us full of
lead. The colonel seems to have got
riled because we blasted his political
ambition by proving that he sold him
self TO both parties last year and ought
to be rode out of Arizona on a three-cor-
nered rail
We shall be home every day in the
week for the next month"; and the
colonel needn't mind knocking on the
door when he calls lie may just walk
right in and begin popping away, and if
he downs us no one about the Office will
do anything to prevent his getting
away. We can feel our private grave
ysrd just aching for another victim.
TOLD HIM Soon several different
occasions we have said to Ben Williams
through these columns that this town
couldn't appreciate man of his eccen-
trio conduct Ben didn't believe us.
He continued to drink, quarrel and
shoot at everybody who differed with
him on biblical questions and last night
the boys took him out and gave him
four dozen lashes on the bare back and
asked him if he wanted a change of
climate. He did. He wanted it bad.
He was hunting for it when last seen,
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for some years to come.
In this connection it may be well to
say few words to Hank White, who
acts as bouncer for the Red Star saloon.
He has tried to kill three or four men
in the last four weeks, and we believe
him to be the party who fired dead
jackass rabbit through our bedroom
window one night last week. Unless
he makes a great change in his conduct
the boys will get up surprise party on
him soon, and their little affairs are
never pulled off without some one get
ting hurt
CURIOUS CoINCIDENCE. Most of our
citizens will readily recall to mind Maj.
here ast h SST so sTes Tes sbs
faro banks. 1t perhaps needless to say
that he did not succeed. The major
visited us almost daily, and on one oc-
casion showed us a human ear which
had once belonged to man in Prescott
who called him liar. We believe he
claimed to have carried the ear for six
teen years.
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here he went north, and one day he fell
in with n man and exhibited the relic.
The stranger turned out to be a brother
of the man who lost the ear, and he not
only took possession of it, but of both
of the majors to boot The latter will
now know how it seems to have some.
body using his ears to put an edge on a
jack knife, and we can't say we feel
bit sorry for him.
LOCATED. AS there was some little
misunderstanding as to what had be-
come of the man who stole Gen. Hem
nessy's white mule from in front of the
post office the other night. we rode ont
into the country about three miles YES
terday and obtained all possible partic.
ulars. The stranger is at present To-
Gated about four rods to the west of the
Raisin Valley trail after it crosses Buff
falo creek, and some one has put IN a
head-board with an inscription on it
to the effect that he died of heart fail
nre. We think he did. We think that
several other organs also failed him at
about the same time. ANY one who
thinks he got away is laboring under a
mistake, and such an idea also does the
boys injustice. M. Quad, in n. Y.
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