The Arizona Kicker
- yfe extract ; the f ollbwing f rom the of the Arizona Kicker : "t>idu ? t -Know it was Loaded. — Smith and Davis' minstrels were billed for ah entertainment at Montezuma HaiUast Friday night, but it didn't ttome^ff. Instead of that the whole tfaijW stepped off. They came' here *fttor>i?he .avowed intention of. doing business 1 ' without the the aid of The En-keT. 'None of them called, at the <*liu;e, aiid f they -had' no courtesies to vddtebdv 'We- advised; the peopia to Btay awayi" On Friday morning seven members of the gang entered our office! to- deintrnd •' satisfaction.'-' f,.-3!ney didn^t'kno'w it wasVloadedJ ; It was hoWever, ahd when it went; bfiPsome ofcthe bird- shot got; in on each and evßryqne of 'jfche.' g'an J g,/ and wejhad to tk^onej'or the en^-men j^ith an axelielveYn addition^" We .haven't anyone in -this town who makes a sp^ci aKby.of digging lead' out of the human BystieKn^and' at noon they started for tombstone to give a man there a - >week^B~|6,b, jacket ! which is Me!ricirn''*dr .saying : " The Kicker is always loaded." . . ' €Bd ; Palsy !— We never refer . to our contemporary down the 'street if rjpe"^an avoid it. In the ifirst place, l^Bj b^n^'tjgp.t, , enough .brains or] office to -dj^ry e ,the title, and in the next he is a poor, palsied old man- who is gradually dying of env^ r and starvat- '. ioB, fttto^we'shali have to foot his l)UtiA- l e*penaeß when /n« does go. Tfae^tb'er; wee.k s we mentioned our ppiv^te^Jgrav'eyard "and its five oc- : cupants. < ! This so excited the jealousy 1 of -the ol^^ettc~ofy7the^seyenteenth •ce%tu^r f tfhat he bbrrowed a revolver ■and" took" a .trip arpiindi Tbowayester- j -d^s^& Il ß6aroM r of; blood: ,,Hre r finally -f ofOdrtue' 1 of -:06F. ! McOrackeu's Bigger Indians 1 asleep iii the sun,' and opened fire on him from a distance or four TfeeKSLMe^didnft -©yen' 'wake the redskin un-. an^ Judge, JTalhnan, ,whip objec^d^) f so;^Uch j'.noiße around his ho^'e^^i^t butj^and, ' -'!p'por old pa|y &wj!j f witlj^lhe^b^rpom. ;, .= We are sorry for Mm, tbey say he tried whjle.^ goiiig, his ; one•weat^- "He came as. we ascertajned, to evaSJ iffltik "for bigamy"; ;bui he should have taken- some 'other route. !$> JKlxtraiChaPgel— ln this issue .we-pubiisfiltheilull particulars' of two - executions, one jail delivery, three - ehdofinjg^sff r r ay s, one hjighway rob-; bery,^w<( thr«| dog fightf ■ one*fpund. dead, atdrowning accident, th^arr^s/of a'roa'd agent,>he deaths of two lieritjan^, in the^ laic blizzard and the stealing of Judge -Sprout's - f ou&muie team. : :. .-.: ':-/-. • '"'.'■ , / T&Pteing ;^owfr4he;feeir vWcii '-'calls itself a newspaper) and talks about its lightning pres&and its wild -- eyed corps of editors from New York, - lias, to^©atcfc all -thisj >ii cooked-up s.-. account of a fight .betweeit a jackass t^xabbit and- a government camel, with 7- its editor for the goie>cspectator and -reporter. Isiit^ny .wonder that the ~ -people qfv^lzpiiar can't- iwai|i for The Sicker to Be issued each week, and that dozens Qftb-eci rpost contour doorsteps -all nfght )Wednes.dajtjnight to get -/he ..first ■ xnormng-r All this and 1 no extra * i charge;, Aandy PQ" 1 hand-bills; out an- - noundng that, any thine. unusual was - --going on i
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 48, 7 October 1890, Page 4
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515The Arizona Kicker Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 48, 7 October 1890, Page 4
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