Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01

believe the story. We don't say right
out that the major is liar; but, If
pinned down to it, we would make aft
davit that he couldn't tell the truth for
money.
The report published in Chicago
paper that we had driven every lawyer
out of Giveadam Gulch at the muzzle
of gun, is, of course, all nonsense.
Three or four years ago, before the bar
got on to our editorial tactics in case
of libel suit, we believe we did help
a lawyer or two to get over into Utah,
but there has been no trouble of late,
nor do we apprehend any. 1t is the
business of a lawyer to start libel
suit gainst us if retained for that pur-
pose and it is our business to call on
him and quash the case, and the I'M
derstanding is SO well grounded that
no trouble ever arises.
1t is now two weeks since Sam Roys
went over to Cat mountain to gather
geological specimens for an eastern
college, and no one has heard from
him since the day he left. There is a
general feeling that Sam picked up
grizzly bear among the other speci-
mems, and that the bear objected. If
he does not show UP within three or
sent out to look for any relics lying
around loose.
Alderman Jackson was around town
yesterday calling us a Nero and a
Caesar and other fond names, and
asking various people how much longer
they were going to keep their necks
under our iron heel. What ails Tom
Jackson, as everybody knows, is that
we ruled him out of order at the first
council meeting and held a gun on
him till he sat down. He had figured
to get the drop on us, but he was too
SLOW The iron heel business is all
right. We calculate to keep right on
biting mayor for several years yet, and
If Alderman Jackson is afraid of his
neck he'd better hunt another town.
The little affair in The Kicker office
last Thursday has been grossly mag
nified by our esteemed contemporary.
A long haired, long cared compositor
from the east, to whom we had given
a weeks work, formed our seven
printers into a union and got up
strike. We had never had one before
and didn't know exactly how to meet
it, but finally took off our coat and
sailed into the crowd. 1t was the med
icine needed. We got a few thumps
and bangs, but in the course of half an
hour the strike was over, the union
Dissolved and the agitator taking a
walk. We are for liberty, equality,
high wages, shorter hours and all the
rest of it, the man who sets out to run
our business has got to lick us first.
physical and mental wreck whom we
are obliged by courtesy to refer to as
our esteemed contemporary had threat
ened again to shoot us on sight-being
about the hundredth time in the last
two years-but we were by no means
prepared for his wonderful feat of
Wednesday. He actually did stop US
on Apache avenue and pull a gun. For
some time We were in doubt whether
he would shoot us or himself; but. find
ing that he was liable to accident, we
picked him and his gun up and deposit
ed them head first in barrel in front
of SINNERS grocery. The editor re-
manned there, with his heels in the air.
until some one extended helping
hand. We shall never draw a gun on
our esteemed. We may jab at him
with a toothpic, yell at him in low
bass or barrel him up, but his life is
safe with US.