The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-15
TO be continued.)
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
The WelI-AnoVTn Paper States 81 Few
Truths in n Gambia We,

The Weli-iNnorn Paper States 81 Few
Truths in II Candid Way.
We are not one of that class who be-
lfeve in town booms, and though a strong
pressure has been brought to bear on
the Kicker for two years past we have
firmly refused to initiate the prospects of
TINS town to assist land speculation. Can
dor compels US to state that it is just an
average town. We have about 1000 in
habitants, and there isn't the slightest
nope OF increasing the population by an
other thousand. We have no railroads,
no colleges, no grand agricultural region
surrounding US. There is no water power,
no factories, no locomotive works, no
particular reason why any one should
pc attracted to this town. We own
lorty-tWo acres of land in the suburbs of
the town. We paid 81 an acre year ago
and will now sell for So. We have two
fair poker rooms thirty-two very decent
saloons, SIN stores a bank and two res
taufanls. Our population includes Next
cans, indians, half-breeds and college
graduates from the east. The expenses
OF funeral here are only SIS, and there
vigilance committee stands ready to-
hang folks with neaness and dispatch
ana one can get shot at almost any hour
of the day by utterlng a Whoopee on
the street, but there is nothing in partic-
ular TO lie about and inaugurate a boom.
We own most OF the town, run most of
1t and like it all, but we are conscieu-
tious. When we won't lie 10 sell our
own land we can't be expected to in the
interest of a syndicate.
Some three weeks since the editor and
proprietor of the Red Bluff Gazette paid
us fraternal visit, and il is needless to
say that ne received warm and frater-
nal greeting. For the first three hours
after his arrival he led US to believe that
pointers on journalism, but when ne
careiessly and incidentally suggested q
game OF poker we dropped to his little
| intentions. He had cleaned out his own
town and come over on still hunt after
our editorial Doodle. We co not deny
that we play the game of poker We
see nothing wicked in it when the game
is square. We had secretly hoped that
our Red Bluff friend did not know the
game, as we felt that we should GER
tainly clean him out if we sat down to-
gether We hung off as long as possible
and then gave in to him. We let him
win our Office clock and an cid bear trap
to encourage him and then got a royal
flush and scooped him out of his money,
guns, horse, office and all he had on the
face of this earth except a. cross-eyed
wife and two red-headed children.
Our policy in all such cases has been
to make the astonished victim a present
of his officge and encourage him TO keep
right on with his newspaper, but to let
the game of poker alone in future. In
| this case we did more. We returned the
editor his gun, his office and 81 of his
S42 to buy flour and bacon to last his
family over Sunday. He shed tears over
our generosity and rose up and embraced
us. In fact, he wept on our left
shoulder and pronlised nnvFr r. to'rch
| cards again. He seemed a contrite but
happy man when he starIeu lv1 MS hone
and we also felt better toward all the
Great was our surprise, therefore, TO re-
| ceive a letter from him two days later
in which he called us double-eyed
scoundrel and other things, and added
bnf xSTpb qd q Of n of
we would meet him at Turkey Bend last
Sunday and stand before him at ten
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When we woke up last Sunday it was
raining as if 1t would never stop. We
ate scant breakfast, made our will and
then mounted our running mule and
started for Turkey Bend, twelve miles
away. We were there at 10 o'clock.
From that hour TO p. m. we stood under
a tree, with an umbrella over our head,
| waiting for that Red Bluff critter to
show up. We not only had every reason
to expect him, but, knowing that he had
only rusty old revolver to shoot at us
with, we had brought along. fine new
weapon for his use. We had even made
| ears instead of seriously wounding him.
At o'clock Colonel Clark came along
from Red Bluff, only three miles away,
and he said that the last hing he saw in
that town was the Gazette man sitting
in his own house in his shirt sleeves and
stocking feet and evidently taking things
meet US. He couldn't have been pulled
out there with a mule and rope
In spite of our efforts to keep the mat
ter quiet, many of our citizens have
heard Of the case and we have been re-
peatedly asked what we propose to do
about it. When a man rides twenty-four
miles in this country to shoot and be
shot at and the other cnap doesn't show
up. 1t is expected that he viii at least.
fling down his hat and jump on it. We
have nothing to say and we shall do
nothing except to try to arrange an IN
terview between our esteemed contempo-
rary in this town and the Gazette man.
We'd like to see the two varmints shut
up together for fifteen minutes. They
wouldn't fight, but their blowing and
Dragging and the contempt they'd feel
for each other would he as good as a
circus with a balloon ascension after the
perforraan ce.--M. Quad.