Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-07
Tne AalzoNA KICKER.



wn ARE Left. - For the past four weeks
,ur friends have been eagerly pressing US TO
-al,e the nomination forniayor on the peoples
t,alst we do not crave Office, and are
verv bosy man, bat the pressure became so
great we had 10 give IN "a
LAST Tuesday evening the city caucus was
hed and instead Of being nominated ior
mavor we received only three votes out OF
ou,ynr,ls of sixty cast Our friends were ms
sak,,,i when they insisted that we were want
ed instead Of being the unanimous choice OF
tbe patriotic people, we had the pleasure OF
seeing Jerry Baxter. the meanest man W
town, given the nomination.
Oh well that's human nature right through,
and an editor fool enough to so INTO poiltics
deserves to be driven head first into the TAN
bark ms we were We havo word TO say,
however. The Kicker will not only bolt every
candidate on the ticket, but we guarantee to
have nine tenths of the nominees IN prison De
fore they are month older veni cum gra
nisl which is Latin for saying Don't monkey
with a newspaper man
HAVE Cor A FEw.--A correspondent in
ouires If The Kicker has any libel suits on
hand, as the result of its independent and out
snoken course. Well, yes it has a few--about
four dozen, we believe, but we are not worry
ing any. They have all been Instituted by
second class ducks who haven't any charac,
ter to be- damaged, and the whole batch VIII
probably he thrown out OF court IN a lump
some day. In the beginning OF oN career
libel suit used to give us the colo Tor three
DAYS and nights, and we'd wake up from
troubled sleep to find our cheeks wet WIN
tears, but we soon got sunburned indeed
we rather prefer to see them come. IL looks
| like business.
MysT HAVE BEEN THE PROFESSOR. Ever
since we took possession OF our office on Sioux
avenue certain people have taken malicious
delight in heaving rocks at the doors ana
| through the windows at midnight we put
| mn with it the first six months because we
were afraid, and the next six because we liked
to see people enjoy themselves. Then we
warned the public to let up or somebody
would get hurt Last Wednesday night q
rock weighing three pounds came through q
| window and barely missed our head as we
lay sleeping ON our cot. As we got To the
door with a shot gun some one could be seen
making off over the common. We drew on
him and pulled trigger, and something Ut
tered yell
Yesterday the body of Professor jenkins
was found in the sage brush about two miles
from town, and it was plain that he died OF
dose of buck shot in the back. Just as llkel,
as not he was the chap we fred at in the dark
ness We didn't owe him any particular
grudge, and we didn't know that he dld US
and we are willing to foot half the burial ex
penses at a venture
BASE COWARD The item in the Chica
go press of recent date that we had beer
fatally wounded by judge for publishing
SANDER was not exactly correct In the mrs
, place, the individual was cowboy name'
Rose In the nexteplace the article was true
and in the third place, after he had fired fiv'
shots at us without touching a hair, w
: knocked him silly with a squash that VI
picked up in front of Snyder's grocery. Thel
we stood on him for about half an hour, an'
: when he went out of town our br1ndled do
was chasing him at a speed of twenty mile
/ an our.-Detroit Free Press.