The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21

that he VIII shoot US on sight
All we did was to hint that he'd better
pay back the money he had borrowed
Of US.
Some one fred three shots into our
bed room window in the Kicker ONCE,
last Sunday night, with the intention o.
assassinating US, but none of the bull
lets came within three feet Of the
mark.
The editor OF the Elk Horn Gazette
called US up on the telephone the other
day to say that we were q sooundrel
and liar, and that we dared not show
our face in that village. Lord but how
he will break for tall timber when he
hears we are coming!
Alderman Ffnnegan started to draw
a gun on us the last meeting of the
council. because we declared
him out of order, but his elbow got
mixed up with his fingers and we got
the drop on him and had him sitting
down before he knew where he was at
The circulation books OF the kicker
are open to all, and any would-be ad-
vertiser who wants to spend three
months counting up the number Of orr
viii be made welcome and
provided with a lunch at noon every
day.
The Lone Jack Recorder says we are
a liar when We state that 1t requires
ing presses, running night and day 20
work oft the weekly issue of this pa
per. We never made such a statement
Our etghty-flve presses sre rumbling
away IN plain view OF all, and It would
be silly in us to exaggerate the NUM-
Der Try again, Mr.. Recorder.
While We are around town with the
boys we have no objections to being
called Jim" but when we are in our
Office as mayor we expect and shall
insist on being addressed by our title
After we have thrown half a dozen
more of the crowd downstairs for IN
due familiarity the gang viii probably
get 1t through their heads that there
is a difference between tweedledee and
tweedledum.
We were feeling the other day that
we had got settled down for the win
ter, when Major Skinner stopped his
paper because we refused to pitch into
Nero and raise a row over the way he
burned up & good part Of the business
district of Rome several thousand
years ago. Now we have got to ride
out to the majors ranch and exchange
fusilIades with him, and It may be a.
whole month before things will 80 on
as before.
An Eastern subscriber asks US by
letter if the climate of Arizona is good
for catarrh. If he can sit in a poker
game for four weeks without being
proVement in his ailment. and if he can
dodge bullets and stampeding steers
for three months longer he can con
slider himself cured. The climate itself
is simply bully.
The other night, after the city mar
shall had had a thumb shot off by
gang of cowboys from Big 4 Ranch.
we turned out Of bed with a couple
of guns and cleared the town within
ten minutes. The defeated broneho-
busters have sent us in word that they
viii hang US to q limb before the first
OF the year, but knowing how they
must feel we extend our heartful SYM
pathies.
The position of sporting editor on
this paper is open to the right party
at a salary of SO per week to begin
on. He must be well up on all sports.
able to shoot two-handed, and a man
who can bluff it out when covered with
a. gun by a cock-eyed, red-headed chap
who is looking for trouble. ANY other
sort viii waste their time correspond
ing with US.
They had riot over at Blue Hen
Valley the other afternoon, in which
about thirty men participated and nred
an average of four shots apiece When
order was restored It was found that
one man had nosebleed from having
1 been struck by somebody's elbow. Gu
can buy corner lots at Blue Hen for
sidered dear at that. No wonder Art-
iona is kept out of the statehood.
/ Ex-Judge Trueman wishes to pub
tncIv DENY the rumor that he has been
/ irving to get US ousted from the post
| raastership of the Gulch. ana secure
{ the appointment for himself we
/ think our calling upon the judge with
| a couple Of guns had something to DO
/ with the matter, but we are willing to
give him the benefit Of the doubt
/ Some three or four weeks ago We
+ had an item IN this paper to the erect
that society at Wolf Creek are with It's
/ fingers and drank out OF jug. we
understand that cons1deraDAe naEo
+ feeling has rasulted. and We wish TO
4 explain that the item was written by
i the Horse EDITOR and snuggled IN
Ehon zve were extra busy II ne can
not substantiate MS asseItioIla ne W ~
! be discharged. The most that we could
| say personally against the Wolf Creek
ers {s that they wipe their greasy nm
gers on their hair after eating sand
wiches made OF bear meat
The subscription price of the Arizona
Kicker is one dollar year, and no
premiums Of any sort are offered. Per
sons who are approached by solicitors
should demand their documents, and
where they cannot be produced the
nearest vigilance society should be
speedily notified Where g lynchlng
takes place we pay one-haIf the fun
eral expenses.
Mr.. William Cosgrove, from Indiana,
| arrived at the Gu1ch last Tuesday In
search Of news of his son James, who
had not been heard of for the past six
months. inside Of three hours, with
the help of our back fles and the cor
oner's books We were able to assure
the father that his son was hanged on
Dog River last June for horse steal.
ing.
Haven't you any public library in f1lis
town p asked the stranger
mo, sir said the native There was.
q man that offered Us library once, bat