Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-18
THE ARIZONA KICKER
How tho Editor Stirred Up Brother sev-
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How tho Editor Stirred Up Brother Sow
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 A CALL FROM BIG BESD-For some months past we have known that all was not well with Brother Sewell of the Big Bend Gazette. When Mir. SewclI arrived hero n year ago on his way over to the Bend to establish his paper. WIG sized him up as u failure. He had been running a weekly devoted to cheese and butter in a corner of the state of Illinois, and he could not explain to anybody's satisfaction why he should have turned his face farther west. While we felt certain that hc would make a miserable failure within a few months, VIC also encouraged him to 20 ahead and agreed to stand by him. When The Gazette came out on half sheet last week, we stood by for a call, and the call came Tuesday morning by telephone Within an hour we were on our way, ac- companied by our new horse editor. We had a pretty fair idea of the situation at Big Bend and went prepared for business We expected to find Brother Sewell in jail. but were disappointed He had been locked up for two days, but m hour beforc our arrival they had mounted him on q blind mule headed for Salt Lake and warned him to keep going for 30 days under pen alty of death.
 We dispatched our horse editor on the trail of tho condemned and then rode over to Tho Gazette office. For several months past, notwithstanding the mild protesta- tions of Brother Sewell, the office has been used as headquarters for all the loafcrs in town. 4 lively dog fight between two champion CUTS was going on when we dis mounted at the open door, and the num- Der of spectators inside was about 30. There are men in Big Bend who haven't yet made up their minds whether that printing office was struck by n cyclone or lifted ten feet high by an upheaval of the earth. We clearcd the place in seven min- utcs by the watch, and nobody stopped running under half O mile. Of all the lonesome sights We ever saw The Gazette office took the cake. The press had been taken down and flung out doors with the imposing stone standing galley and many of tho cases to make moro room for the loafcrs, and about the only thing which had escaped -'pi'' was a kcg of ink We had got thrre Chinamen at work cleaning up when Brother Scwcll and our horse eSii- tor arrived Tho former was in tears and hcartbrokcn, and his first remark to us was to the effect that he was a ruined man and intended tO commit suicide. We rau | him into the back yard without loss ot time, and while our horse editor jumped the Chinamcn about We slammed Brother | Scwcll against boarSl fence till spark of lost manhood was rcstOrctl, and We could note signs of returning ambition The threc of us were hard at work UT | to Thursday noon tO get the office in shaps to do business again. During this interval WIG called on the justice of the peace who had issued n warrant for Brother SCwcll | for libel and sent him to jail, and also or the complainant and his lawyer, and theil apologies were of the most ample prUPOr tions. Whenever our horse editor Wa: obliged to rest from his ar1uous manual labors, he employed the time teaching