West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-10-19
THE ARIZONA KICKER

week in place Of the usual eight
page monster aggregation of arts
tic illustrations and interesting
reading matter. Onr cocoanut-
headed contemporary viii Of course
make great howl over it, but we
trust that our excuses will be found
ample and our tens Of thousands OF
readers forgiving. AS an offset for
the limited quantity OF matter we
have filled the half sheet with arti-
cles OF unusual interest. Readers
will find fair accounts OF ID differ.
ent lynchings, three regular hang
ings, two cold blooded murders,
several highway robberies and three
escapes from Jail.
After the Issue of our paper last
week we took run over to Rock
vile, just across the Utah line. Our
object was to size mp widow who
had just arrived from the East,
and If she PANIED out favorably to
propose marriage. A friend over
there had pnt us on by telegraph.
and we almost killed our racing
mule in our impatience to got there.
1t may be superfluous to explain
that we are single man and have
had our eye out for the coming
woman for several years past. In
due course of time we reached
Rockville, which hasn't even n
good game Of poker to recommend
it to an Arizona editor. and in fur
Their due time we were introduced
to the widow we fully intended to
20 into partnership with and place
In control of the Sunday School de-
partment Of the Kicker.
We were prepared for large feet,
n snub nose and few missing front
teeth, but not for the spectacle
which sat down on a chair before
US. She was short, sawed off
woman, weighing 200 pounds OH
the level. What hair she had left
after her So years of struggling with
a deceitful world had been dyed the
color of an old bootleg. Her nose
had been broken, she was cross
eyed, and the loving hand extended
us would have almost covered one
page of the Kicker. We had been
reliably informed that the widow
had S., 900 in cash behind her, and
$4,000 in the hands Of an enter
prising Arizona editor means mil.
hons, but We couldn't grasp the
golden opportunity. In fact, VIC
suffered u full sized collapse, and i.
was only by a superhnman effort
that we could welcome her to this
fair Territory and hope that under
our sunny skies. and bracing atmos
phere she would soon pick mp an.
ether hundred pounds of solid fat
The interview didn': last over lt
minutes, and We are ready 80 make
affidavit that we never smiled {
loving smile. We went over to The
hotel and went to bed, kicking our
selves for the trouble we had gone
TO, but had not been asleep tive
hours when the landlord woke III
up and advised Us to skip. Tn,
widow had fully expected . propo
sal from us. Sac was disappointed
and chagrined aud wanted revenge
She told her brotber-in-law VIII,
appears to be crittcr without sens,
enough to twist bears tail, tia
VIC had proposed marriage and ther
crawisbed. He scurried aroun,
and got q lot Of other critters q
back him, and about the time W
got out Of the tavern and on tn
back OF our mule a mob Of 40 mel
tbirsted for our gore.
After getting three bullets thro
our hat and being grazed by tw
more, we got out Of that town b
jumping our mule over a 7-foo
wall. About half the mob mounte,
and pursued, and for q distance o
about six miles it was q question 0
whether The Hick,er would ever b
issued again or come out this fal
enlarged and improved and in ever
way the best family paper to be bs
for the price in America. IDch b
inch our mule gained on u. u
IS essentially an uphill mule-tha
IS, he lets out an extra link in n.
ccnding grade, and this fact save
as. We we're Cred upon abous 3
time8. out fortunately not hjf. Du,