EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES IN TEXAS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 25 September 1886, Page 4

EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES IN TEXAS.

The following announcement waa recently pinned on the door of the office of the newt- ' paper referred to, and vividly shows the danger* of editing in Texas:— 11 The proprietor of the Sunken Talley Daily Record regrets to have to announce to hi* subscribers that the paper will not be iitued today, owintr to the audden decease of the * editor, Mi B, «T. ■L. / Coker. Mr .Coker was sitting in his office yesterday, engaged in hi* editorial duties, when -. Colonel - Bai ph McGee sud donly burst into ■ his room, and, addressing Mr Ooker. as •You piebald dogwalloper," demanded to know what he meant by alluding to him (Colonel McGee) as a whisky-absorbing, importation from Dublin 1 in last Friday's isiue of the Record. With- ■ out giving Mr Coker time to reply, ho fired four shots at him from hi* six-shooter, - the last of which struck Mr Coker in the mouth, killing him instantly. Under i ordinary circumstances the proprietor would have no hesitation in characterising tbia aaa dastardly aid unprovoked outrage on a defenceless man, but as Colonel McGee has since called at the Record office, and, in the handsomest manner possible, offered ‘to serve any dogarned pr-por-ispciler on the staff in the-samc way,’ he ferle loth to criticise too harshly the rash a;i of a man evidently laboring under a strong sonae ot injury. The proprietor has arranged rdth a gentleman (16st 3;b iiooa ‘ down East’) who will in future undertake the editorship of the Record, and who hopes,,by a moderate but firm use of the revolver, to cement and bind those bonds of mutual respect and esteem which have so long existed b.itwoen ~ the Record and ’ its subscribers. The charge for amoucoing birth*, marriages, and Bhcotiug parties reniiina as heretofore,"