The Arizona Kicker

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 119, 31 March 1891, Page 3

The Arizona Kicker

We extract the following from the last , issue of the Arizona Kicker:— Apologetical — Our subscribers will not fail to notice the sad condition oFour third page to day. We had the form { ready for press when Judge Gilbert, \ our i ooulnraiid esteerneii Circuit Judge, c crilled a.'i/the;bffice"in a drunken condition s and in his attempt to hug us to prove his c affection, he knocked the form into " pi.' I We hadn'i time to re- set the matter, nud t so had to leave the page blank. While we f are sorry i it is not our fault. We can't c even piifi'i mto tiie 3 IK te c about it. He i rot only owes us 8()dol. borrowed money, c but controls legal advertising to the r amount of 80Ddol. This is our position [ we trust our readers will appreciate E It. . J At ten o'clock one Sunday night we , col word by telephone tint some one. was , openina the graves jn OUI . private ci-me-teryj wherein, lie the lem.iins of the seven -different men who Jmre tried to get the C .jjrop on us, but w.ew a trifle too late. I -We made for the scene ut a rapid gaii, ' and what was our i^tunisbnvni to dv- J cc.ver that the marauder was n> ie>» a a person than our esteemed contemporary r —liie editor, publisher, an i proprietor of ■ the Cow- Bell Gazette and Dm? Don» / Advertiser. The old villain has stolen our office stove -borrowed our wood pile , — hooked our j"b type -conspired with oar forein>m-bej;g^d our ink -opened dozens of our Otters and lied about us from Sunday morium? to Saturday night. He has attempted to ape and imitate our enterprises and repeated failures have made him desperate. He hasn't the norve to pull a gun, even when his nose is between someone s fin.gers. H e pooh-poohed our graveyard I in every issue, and sought in every way j to be»litile our courage. Fired with hate ( because everybody who come here wanted to see that little burying ground, he planned to go out there and dig up every ' body and transplant the lot to a grave* yard of his own. We have heard of stu uendous cheek, but this case takes the •cake. What did we do? Well, we didn't want to kill thf l'oor old, long Bhanked, bow legged cousin of a cactus, but we did turn to and maul him until the boys over at Ranch 14— seven miles away— heard his yells and thought that anew species of wlii; -poor-will had stiuck Arizona. We' understand he claims to have been " hiuhwayid " and robbed, and he's bragging that he wounded two Grangers. The case is as we haye giren it. : '