The Arizona Kicker

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 28, 23 August 1892, Page 4

The Arizona Kicker

The Amende Honorable— ln our last issue we stated that Tom Jordon, proprietor ot the Bald Eagle saloon, had to leave Montana for gouging one Bill White's right eye out in a saloon row. Mr Jordon called at the office next day and brought abundance of proof that we were mistaken. It was not with Bill White but with Jim Davis that he had a row, and it was not Davis' right eye, but hi? left, which was sparkling in the sawdust after the fight was over. It has always been the policy of The Kicker to state facts and facts only. Being satisfied thas we did Mr Jordon *n injustice in our statement we hereby make the amende honorable, as the New York dailies call i". Mr Jordon not only subscribed to The Kicker, paying a year in advance, but his attractive advertisement will be found under the heading of ' Saloons' on another page. A Bluff — Monday morning-, while bis honour the Mayor (who is ourseli) w&s transacting official business in his room at the City Hall, a Chinch Valley cowboy named Joe Scott sent in word that he was on the public square prepared to take and hold tlie town. In just thirteen seconds after receiving the message his honour ha«i buckled two revolvers about his waist and was at the foot. of the stairs. His prompt response scared Joe Scott, who then put spurs to his mule and clattered out of town without firing a shot. His honour got two shots at the flying coward, one of which passed through his hat, but he got away unhurt, and' people who met him seven miles out say that he was still on the gallop. The Clinch Valley chaps might as well quit their bluffing and knock under. They could scare the tormer Mayor out of his boots with one war whoop, but things have changed. The present Mayor (who is ourself) doesn't scare, and he is bound to run this town on the law and order principle if it necessitates adding ten more acres to the graveyard. It didn't take.— When Prof. Wentworth Foster came to us as the only hall in town and wanted to engage it to deliver his world-renowned lecture on 4 The Past and Future of Egypt,' we frankly told him that our people would be disappointed- When he approached us as editor of The Kicker we told him the same thing. When he came to us as Mayor for his license we reiterated our former observations, but he was self-willed and obbtinate. He got out his paper and went ahead. The boys crowded the hall at a quarter a head, anticipating an exhibition of mummies fnd a boxing match as a wind-up* Some even figured, just as we had informed him they would, that he would pass around a bottle of budge 6000 or 7000 years old — something dug out from under one of the pyramids. We do not know where the professor is located at this date. After the boys got through tossing him in a blanket he disappeared in the direction of Poko Mountain, and perhaps he is still moving. We would say to all others of his ilk, however, that this is a plain town, full of plain people. We like to hear almost anything con nected with the United fctates, from the discovery by Columbus to the investigation by the Pension Department, but we don't go a cent on anything over 500 years old happening in a foreign country. We haven't got any pyramids around here and don't want any, and we run to the mule instead of the camel. Changed his mind.— Our contemporary is out with a scare head article informing the public that Capt. Bill Henderson had stopped his subscription to The Kicker because it did not satisfy him as a newspaper. Our contemperary is off his base, as usual, j We heard that the captain had said he should do so, and we spent half a day looking him up. He wasn't five minutes in deciding to continue on as a paying subscriber. We don't deny that anyone has a legal right to stop his copy of The Kicker any time he so elects, but in every instance we shall look him up and demand an explanation.