The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-09

on the Goth day of last June n critter came
galloping into this town on cayuse which
was knee sprung and limped in all four
legs Upon reaching the postoffice the
eritter rolled of his beast and stood on the
steps and waved his arms and shouted:
II am livin thunderbolt from Mount
San Francisco, which is 40, 600 feet high and
chuck full of grizzly bars, rattlesnakes
and earthquakes My food is the cactus
and my drink cold pizen. When roll my
eyes, the hull territory of Arizona lights up
as with a millyon bonfires. When sneeze,
the big mountain shakes and pours out
lava. Whar' is the man who won't fall
dead when 1 look at him? Whoop! What
critter will refuse to tell me of place whar'
i kin git buzzsaws, bowie knives, bars
claws and nevis hoofs for luncheons"
The city marshal would have taken the
stranger in and cared for him, but he re-
sisted arrest and pulled his guns. The re-
suit was a scrlmmage, in which he was
killed, with TO one TO blame hut himself.
His grave is the second one TO the right as
you enter the town graveyard, and wheI
We took the father up there to see it we
noticed that some patent medicine man
had erected headboard for the sake of adj
vertising his cure all When we informed
fate, he promptly acquitted the marshal of
all blame. He further explained that John
had set ont for the far west to become
bad man, and that what he lacked in sand
he made up in whooping and cracking his
heels together. Mr.. Wyman not only took
sensible view of the matter at every turn,
but his words expressed his relief and graf
itude that his son was not hung instead of
being shot. Indeed he was so pleased with
our people and their way of doing business
that before going home hc purchased two
vacant lots on Apache avenue ana will re-
turn here in the spring to become perr,a-
nent resident. AS the head of the local
government, as well as the editor and pro-
prietor of a great family newspaper, we
take great pleasure in assisting the rela-
tives of late deceased TO secure all pcssi-
bic particulars of his taking OF, and in the
future as in the past shall hold ourselvesin
readiness TO do whatever can be done in
any and every case. Living relatives who
may wish 10 consulS us after II o'clock at
night will please ming the upper bell and
announce their names before the door il
opened. We have had to adopt this pre-
caution to guard against would he assassins.
ANOTHER CASE IL PoIST.--On two or
three different occasions The KICKER has
felt called upon TO warn tourists from the
east that the people Of this town had their
idioms and stuck To them like ton of
porous plasters. When we were in Chi
cago year ago, n man took our $50 over
coat and left s. one in exchange. We
recognized IL as one OF the idioms of the
town and raised no row. When we were
In st. Louis last summer, some one took
81 out OF our hind pocket. ldiom again,
and we telegraphed home for more. The
idioms OF our people are perhaps mani
Tested in y game -ef PskeF more tAata ii.asy y
thing else. The game Is played here in all
its original luxuriousness that is, each
player Is entitled TO lay guns on theta
BILE before the cards are dealt The guns
may be loaded or not. but empty guns are
not much Of hluI cut this way. ~ the
east three aces beat three kings in game
OF poker. la this community they some
times do and sometimes don't--accorline
TO how you have sized up the other fcller
In the east they never have ever four aces