"The Arizona Kicker"

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 28, 21 August 1890, Page 4

"The Arizona Kicker"

y?e exh-act the folio wing" from the lest issiie of the 'Arizona Kicker s vAbeadfVriNext^Monday ■ luorttiug an artist and engraver from Chicago will arrive in town to accept of a position tendered by tha Kicker. ; We are ; the first' to intrbdHce a real arti-.t iuto Arizona, as we are the first to lead the w=iy^ in all oiber quod things. Hereafter all matters: of 1 oeal i m jjorta nee, but m ore especially ..street rows atteuded .-with loss of : life, will beTiilußtra.ted in the highest style of the art, th-'.ruby iucrensing the value bfthe Kicker to subscribers^ by ut least iOO per cent, while the price of subscriptions w:li remain at the old figures.^ /0.:..- ;. ■.;-.. .'■ ,'■ ■>> The Called Jade.---It has bo happened, every time : {we: 'have been oblige.d.to kill a man in this '.town in BHif-def^ncei that the coroner and ©very body elseVwas in a; great hurry, and ihal the body was buried in the must convenient place. : Last week \re were struck: with the idea of getr ting them all together in one' common ; Bpot,jaud''we: bought an acre of sand l()d of GciUr Hawkins for^a groundwork. - o ur green- eyed ; -contemporary got a hint of .-.'i what : iwas" up,- : 'arid : he went blowing around town ; and : did his best to head us off.; he failed, " howeveiy and ; during \ the thaw we had the five -bodies taken up, removed^ to .what; js already known as 'The Kicker corral,' and eacK grave 'With; a i white head- board -with the uatue painted neatly thereon. "In the spring, we shall see that, each graye.'i.B covered' with trailing arbutus •—that4s[;if arbutus will trail in this ■- country. The jDaixfes as; they appear -on tne^head- boards,' are : ' Mose, fete :'■'■'■. Jim, Sam, and ilack.."-, We shall probablyadd a^ couple' - more to ; the list before the ides !of May, whatever that is.^,. :'._ V^^-^r. •:'..-- v ' •' Tfiey Pqn'tEnthuse.^— Every now ; : and then some one who is dissatisfied • with the. course of the Kicker bobs .up with a^prbposition to run us out of the • c6"untryjhy_ : establishing a new weekly, :in opposition. :" ; He "goes blowing rounder gets out a prospectus on a broken-^backed ; type-writer, puts his own name down for, sdols, and-that's : the last of it. -. \^e-ye seen twenty . such c&ses in ttelaa't, three years, and they nol'onger: make our hair stand on end, and chills canter up and down :\"-:>Oi^:.Bpiniarcoliimn.-;'-;.. ... •'Twaoß-eekß ago we felt it our duty to q caution the Mayor •-. of^ this '.town that he must: come down to a mule or we'd take measures to make .ihim. "-He^carried ah .old .shot-gun ..'■ around ; f f or two or j ihree days, telling everybody he had eaniped" on our vitrail, but' it finially got" too i heavy for i^him andhe : aold it for 3dolsr'and*got ; - -out theAiipuai We hear T -that he'ha's; thusif ar Isucc^eded in rais--ing 4dbls'abdadbg;towa'rds^establishi^ng^a great newspaper here. By way of encourtfgeinent "we'll add a second ■ dog, and we hope thie i May or" will'push project for all it's " Notice. '—Parties': addressing let- ? ters to the Kicker 'will 5 l please add : • * IJnited~ States of^America; Western -j.v'Hemis.p'here,'; to the usual' directions. postmaster inithis town sus never certain what country Arizona ; -' : aud''-this'';'wili'- greatly facilitate his labors of distribution. ' The only qualification he has got for ,'.ttho office is his ignorance of ortho..graphy land chirography, and his theory as to why jackass rabbits were — createdr;bjobjcailed:''o r , 5 ~'--",\ " _Not,iGuilty. >-^As predicted in pur issjue, ppLfMco_ugg"was not held , ipr the shooting of JDab Tompkins. we were ah eye witness to the -whole affair,: we/felt it bur duty to -go! /^Tbefore the coroner's -jury- with our - testimony. , Our blink-eyed con tern- .'■' ' . ".p'orary down the street «ays we did ;.this hoping' to increase the.circulation ■ of the Kicker, aud he is partly correct. "We uever let slip an opportunity to : increase our subscription list, and are -. "happy- 'jto'. announce that three mem- : bers of the coroner's jury subscribed and paid~f or a year in •advance,' sv bile "the undertaker wlio furnished the.box /has given- us a six inch ad. to run ; -co^d.trf; /^ •;".,:," ■;;";.;" ;.;■;'. ' ; ' •.■'*' Colonel %as.talcio.g a: drink : at the ■ i^bar oi the ' Grey Wolf" Saloon when. _'i'ompkius jut iiim ; oh the chin with an onion... It was a ; brutaLand; uuealled for thing. anclyTprapkinspuiled liia gun'^to" backbit .up. The cpionel .jumped behind a barrel, pulled his .guv an4.-b.oth- fired, together: While •he only 'lost a lock of hair, Tompkins got it .plump centre and .f elf dead. This should be a sblemn; warning to all his clasH not to .monkey, with, a gentleman 'with' putting away an af teraioonaustainer.."; , ; -.* - j