Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-09

on the 20th day of last June a critter came galloping into this town en cayuse which was knee sprung and limped in all four legs. Upon reaching the postof1ice the critter rolled off his beast and stood on the steps and waved his arms and shouted:
 II am a Twin thunderbolt from Mount San Francisco, which is ,000 feet high and chuck full of grizzly bars, rattlesnakes and airthquakes. My food is the cactus and my drink cold pizen. When I roll my eyes, the hull territory of Arizona lights up as with millyon bonfires. When sneeze, the big mountain shakes and pours out lava. Whar' is the man who won't fall lead when 1 look at him? Whoop! What Iritter will refuse to tell me of place whar' I kin git buzzsaws, bowie knives, bars claws and mewls' hoofs for luncheon?"
 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 scrimmage, in which he was killed, with no one to blame but himself
 His grave is the second one to the right as you enter the town graveyard, and when we took the father up there to see it we noticed that some patent medicine man had erected a head board for the sake of ad- vertising his cure all. When we informed the fathero the way his son John met his
 
 all blame. He further explained that John had set out for the far west to become a bad man, and that what he lacked in sand he made up in whooping and cracking his heels together. Mr. Wyman not only took a sensible view of the matter at every turn, but his words expressed his relief and grat- 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 he purchased two vacant lots on Apache avenue and will re- turn here in the spring to become perma- nent resident. As the head of the local government as we'll as the editor and pro- prietor of q great family newspaper, we take great pleasure in assisting the rela- tives of late deceased to secure all possi- ble particulars of his taking off, and in the future as in the past shall hold ourselves in readiness to do whatever can be done ill any and every case. Living relatives who may wish to consult us after II o'clock at night will please ring the upper bell and announce their names before the door is opened We have had to adopt this pre- caution to guard against would be assassins.
 ANOTHER CASE IN PoINT.-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 OO CuSh 1lho d COl oI porous plasters. When we were in Chi cago year ago, a man took our $50 over- coat and left 0 S5 one in exchange We recognized it as one of the idioms of the town and raised no row. When we were ill St. Louis last summer, some one took $27 out of our hind pocket. 1dion again, and we telegraphed home for more. The idioms of our people are perhaps mani fested in game of poker more than in any thing else The game is played here in all it's original luxuriousness s-that is, each player is entitled to lay two guns on the ta- ble before the cards are dealt. The guns may be loaded or not, but empty guns are not much of bluff out this way. In the east three aces beat three kings in a game of poker. In this community they some times do and sometimes don't-according to how you have sized up the other feller. In the east they never have over four aces in a pack of cards. Here we often find six.
 We fully explained all these things to stranger named Parker, who arrived here the other day to see if the climate would help his asthma, but he went right over to the Wild Horse saloon, sat down to a game of poker with old Tom Scott and tried to rake in the pot under the belief that threes beat two pairs. That would be tho case in some localities, but it is not here. Mir. Scott had to shoot Mir. Parker in the shoul- der before he would be convinced, and we think he left town feeling that he had somehow been injured in both mind and body. If Mir. Parker had Shad two six shooters on the table. then his threes would have knocked two pairs silly, but he didn't have them. We offered to lend him one as he left the officc, but he refused the loan,