The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-01
ARIZONA KICKLETS
Things Keep Right on Happening Out There

out here from Indiana and established
the Blue Hill Record. We suspected
what sort of man he was from the
looks of his paper and the care he took
not to tread on anybody's corns, but we
did not have the pleasure of meeting
him until last Thursday. Then being in
Blue Hill on business we dropped into
the Record office. We found Mr.. Hope
TO be fat man. with side whiskers and
about as much sand as q cucumber
During the hour we'were In the office a
man came in and slapped his jaws. two
men came in and booted him around the
shop, and the fourth took him by the
side whiskers and shook a dollar out of
his clothes TO get drunk on. When we
asked Mr.. Hope why he didn't shoot he
sat down and cried like a girl He may
possibly bring out two more issues Of
his paper, but his going Is only ques-
ton of days. and when he goes II will
be on foot and with his hair on end.
The great West Is a good newspaper
field, but lambs and angels who come out
| here TO run paper make great mis-
take.
For the last month Maj. Banks, of this
town. has been in the habit of coming
into the postoffice several times day
and firing a pistol through the general
of the clerk who serves the public. While
nobody has been shot. and the noise
amounts to nothing. such actions serve
TO lessen the dignity which should sur
round a postoffice, and we now warn
the major that he must let up. II he
persists in his course We shall esteem
it our duty and privilege to return the
fire and lay him up for few weeks. II
he wants to shoot at us while on the
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regular appointed postmaster, sitting in
our private room in the postoffice. We
demand respectful consideration from the
public. Any doctor around town will tell
Mai. Banks that a bullet in the shoulder
will keep him thinking for several sue
cessive nights.
Last week we announced that an in
dividual known as Cheerful Jim" had
been lynched by the Vigilance Committee
at Pine Hill, and great was cur sur
prise when he walked into the Kicker
office the other day and said he was feel
ing as well as usual, but for a sore
throat. II seems that they did hang him,
but as some of the crowd were half
drunk and the remainder anxious to
attend a dog fight, the job was so poorly
done that the victim wriggled out of the
moose and walked on. Cheerful jim
shouldn't have been lynched in the first
place. as ne simply shot a man in the
foot by accident. but as long as they set
to hang him their bungling work was a
disgrace to the whole community. Jim
says so himself and adds that he wouldn't
live in Pine Hill thirty days il they
would give him the town. He can swear. |
chew tobacco and swallow soup, but 4
will be a week or SO yet before ne can
work his throat on corn beef and potatoes.
He will make his home at Giveadam
Gulch. hereafter, and if our people ever
have occasion to hang him he will feel
proud Of the way its done.
Monday morning OF last week we re-
ceived direct from Chicago. and in good
order. the first and only paper cutter
ever seen In this locality, and all day
long the office was crowded with inter-
ested sightseers, each OF whom had a
word in praise of our enterprise We
don't want to appear vain CT boastfui.
but We feel that We may be excused for
observing that every step we have thus
far taken has exhibited a spirit of enter
prise totally unknown in this region he
fore our advent. We have several more
in view. and hope to continue to merit
the praise SC literally Iavished upon our
efforts There seems to be a general
impression around town that a paper
cutter will also cut hair and trim finger
nails. but such use of il would be at
tended with danger.
Our esteemed contemporary came out
with a column sensation last week re-
gsrding the incident at the Bald Eagle |
poker room, which does two of our fel- |
lcw-townsmen grave injustice. Both of !
them have called at his office several |
times to unjoint his spinal column. but |
the critter is in hiding and cannot be |
found. The incident referred to was a !
mere trifle- Mr.. Stephen Green was
playing poker with Col. O'Dyer A 1
hand come out in which both got three |
aces and they raised each other until |
there was $50 on the table. When Steve |
finally called" the colonel and hands |
were shown. both arose and drew guns
We grabbed the colonel. and Judge Ora
ham grabbed Steve, and after A little |
argument both were convinced that the /
six aces had been picked up with the
deck by tie maker. Neither man had
attempted to cheat, but it was simply
one of those curious incidents in poker
which no one can account for. There
was no shooting-no hard words When
the matter had been duly explained the
gentlemen shook hands and sat down