Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-01

is not only gallant squirt, but the poor
 est hand with a gun we have ever run
 across in tho west, and If our advice is
 worth anything he will dismount from his
 warhorSe and secure some peaceful, placid
 employment
 The mayor of this town (who Is our
 sclO yesterday suspended the city marshal
 from duty pending the investigation of his
 official conduct by the common council
 At II o'clock on Wednesday night last five
 cowboys from Big A" ranch galloped in-
 to town and began shooting right and left
 and yelling like wild Indians. We hap
 pchcd to bo in the White Bear poker par
 lorS, whcrc we had called to make a note
 of some contemplated improvements, and
 hastily collecting five or six men we plan
 ned to bag the gang by driving them up
 Apache avenue into tho hands of the city
 marshal and tho dozen men who rallied
 around him. As soon as the firing became
 hot the marshal lost his sand and crept in-
 to an empty sugar hogshCad in an alley, and after holding the town for half an hour the cowboys flrcd last volley and re-
 treated in good order. We appointed tho
 city marshal, believing him to have an
 abundance uf sand, and that he should
 crawfish in the manner he did fills us with
 chagrin and disgust, There is no qucs- llOli bul IlC WllA IllNC lO St, anu ll VIII bc
 better for him If he packs his traps and
 mounts his cayuSc and sets out for some quiet villaSc in New England and looks for
 n job as night watchman at a lumber yard. We believe wa reflect tho public scnti-
 mCnt of our fellow townsmen in saying
 that no 'boom" is wanted hero this year.
 Five years ago, in common with other
 western towns, We indulged in one of those luXuricS Mountains, hills, ravincs sand lots and town lots and everything else
 which could hc claSSed as real estate jump Cd 100 per cent in value, and land and mining and water power companies wcre thicker than nesls on a Digger Indian. The cover had hardly been put on when the bottom sdroppcd out, and citizens who fondly believed themselves worth a cool $50, 900 had to scrapc their pockets to put up cents ante on q poker hand. We want
 no moro bOomS. We want slow and steady prOgrcss instead. During the year at least six morc saloons, two stores, harness shop, n gunShop and four poker rOoms
 will be built and opened, and real estate | will no doubt creep up little in pricc and
 the population incrcasc a few hundred, but
 thcro will he no boom. We shall go along at steady gait, satisfied with a good thing, and if surrounding towns suddenly | leap to tho front as geographical center | of the universe or tho Chicago of the far west they need fear no jealous criticisms on our part. We have boomcd, and ws | havc busted and we want no moro of cd ther
 This morning mon will begin work rs- painting tho fencc around our private graveyard on Gun avenue and later on the | l2 hcadbOarIis will be rclettercd, fresh | gravel spread on tho paths and several choice varieties of plants and flowers will l be set out to add to tho beauty and pictur- | sequences of the spot. This is in accord l ancc with the policy pursued from the very | first, when we planted Montana Bill and marked his headbOHrd No. l. The idea | was to mako the spot moro of park than graveyard and up to date We have spent | several hundrCd dollars in carrying out our plans. It was inevitable that in found | ing The Kicker we should have to do mnrC or less shooting. Some editors would have done mOrc, some less but We think | the l2 mounds a fair average, considering | that we shut our eyes every tima We pull l cd triggCr during the first six months. l Benches will Ie placed in the inclosure l this year, n fountain will play all summer,
 and the placc will bo open to the public
 frce of cost. The only exception WIG make
 Is in the case of tho critter we are obliged l to refer to as our esteemed contemporary.
 His narrow minded policy and jealous dis | position has led him on several occasions
 into attempts to stoal Some of our plants
 to start private graveyard of his own, | and almost every week for two years past ho has published articles to tho effect that 1 we had killed our men with a club after | they had btscn caught in a bcartrap or had
 fallen over precipico. He must rcmain
 out side tho fcncc. If ho wishes to lean on
 1t and shoot at us as We sit by tho plaSh-
 ing fountain when tho sun gocs down and
 tho hand boSins to play Home, Sweet
 Home," We shan't say Q word, but If found | inside We shall not hold ourselves rcspon-
 sible for any personal damages he may sus-
 tain bcforo he gets out.-M. Quad in Do | troit FrCe PreSs-