Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-04-01
THE ARIZONA KICKER
AN EDITOR WITHOUT NERVE AND HIS
WELL DESERVED FATE.

The Kicker Journalist Loads His Guns
and Persuades Colonel Jordan Black to
Retire From the MayoraIty Contest-A
Cold Social Cut-No Harm Done.
The Grass Valley journal, which is
sued its first number last week, has sus-
pended publication, and its editor is
hiding in some cave on the side of Bill
Williams mountain. When Mr.. Morris
came to see us about establishing a
weekly at Grass Valley, we laid down
certain cardinal principles for his guild
ance. He either forgot what we said by
the time he got home or he lacked the
nerve to carry them out afterward At
any rate, his first issue was hardly Off
the press when u man named Lukens
entered the Office and pulled the editors
nose. He not only pulled it, but pulled
hard He not only pulled hard, but lie
got away without being shot That set
tied it with the Valleyites. An editor
who would allow his nose to be pulled
was not the man to boom tho town and
uphold its prestige. They moved down
on him and dreve him into the bushes,
and il Inc ever returns they will hang
him. We have no sympathy to waste Oh
Mr.. Morris. He had it in his power to
establish great weekly and make fame
and money, but he lay down and lost
everything. Wherever he weeps he
weeps alone
Not n Candidate.
Colonel Jordan Black, our genial and
enterprising townsman, has given us
authority TO state that he is not can
didate for the mayoralty of Giverdam
Gulch, nor, indeed, for any other Office
in the gift of the people. Three or four
days since we had it ON what we con-
sidered the very best authority that the
colonel had an ambition to be mayor
and had said he would down us at any
cost or sacrifice. Determined to get at
the bottom facts at once, we loaded our
guns and called at the colonel's office.
He seemed somewhat surprised to see
us and for few minutes was reluctant
to state his position. He finally decided
that he was not a candidate. We APP
prove of his decision. The colonel is q
nice man and all that, but so busy that
office. This is our third term as mayor,
and we shall be elected again. We do
not claim to own the Office, and we do
not wish to be charged with bulldoZing
would be candidates We simply believe
that we ara the best man in town for
the Office and shall hold it until some
one equally as good turns up or we are
tired of the cares and responsibilities.
Any one announcing that they have
aims and ambitions will receive an
early visit from u.s.
A Cold Cut.
Society in Giveadam Gulch has stood
by its traditions in the nOblest sort of
way. Some three months ago Mrs. Colo
mel Jermyn oi Cochise place set her
face against popular feeling by import
ing from Denver a galvanized wire
clothesline and an ice cream freezer and
o red rocking chair. Society frowned
upon these innovations, but bided its
time. Cards Were issued two weeks ago
for Il grand reception on Tuesday even
ing, and Mrs. Jcrmyn exhausted every
effort to make it the event of the season.
When the evening arrived, not guest
showed up. II was cold, cold cut and
the coldCst kind Of Il rcbubc. We under
stand that the lady, so far from feeling
crushed to earth, as might be expected,
still dcfies public opinion and has sent
to Chicago for so rug and u lamp
with red shade. Tho result will be So
cial ostracism. sOur people have their
little idioms and are not to be moved
from them, and disaster inevitably over
takes any one trying the experiment
Mrs. Jermyn, whose name has for the
last three years headed the Four Hun
dred, may now be considered out Of it
altogether, and years of humility will
not restore her lost prestige.
Don't Mistake II.
Next week Mr.. John Freeman will
begin the erection on Apache avenue of
the largest saloon in all Arizona, and
the same will be completed as fast ~
possible. The bar will be long enough
for 40 men to stand mp to at once, and
one Of the Io@UTC, OF the place VIII bo
cent drinks. Tho front and back doors
will be unusually high and wide, 30
that one can ride through the place on
horseback, and shooting at lamps, de-
canters and mirrors behind the bar will
not be discouraged. The idea is TO make
an old time place of it, and Mr.. Free
man has every reason to anticipate
success.
No Harm Done.
We arc in receipt Of letter from the
mayor of Richland, n. NJ, stating that
man named Henry Rice was hanged
there two weeks ago by the local vigi-
lance committee. The charge against
him was stealing n Cayuse, but scarcely