THE ARIZONA KICKER.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 4

THE ARIZONA KICKER.

Wo extraot tho f Uowfntj from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker : Didn't Know it was Loaded.— Smith and Davis minsfcrela were billed for An eij'ftitfiiDracnt at Montezuina Hall last Ffday rji^ht-, but it didn't; com* off, lostoad of that the whole gang stepped off. They come hero with the avowed intention of doing bnvineas without the aid of The kicker. > None of thorn called at the office, and Ihey had no courtesies to extend, We advised the people to stay away. On Friday morning, seven members of the gao# entered onr office to demand eatiufaotion. They did't know it wai loaded. It, wm, however, and when it went off nomo of the birdehot got in on eaoh and everyone of the ganp, and we bad to tap one of tho end men with an ax-helve in addition, W« havtn't anyone in this town who makes a rpooiality of digging lead out of the humun syitein, and at noon they started for Tombstone to give a man there a week's job. Ilic jacket ! wbioh is Mexican for saying : " The Kicker !« always loaded."

Pooh Old Palsy ! — W« never refer to our contemporary down tbe street if we oan avoid U. In fcbo first pi too, he hasn't got enough brains or office to deceive tho title, and in the next ho is a poor, palsied old man who in gradually dying of envy and starvation, and wo •hall have to foot his buriul expenses when be does go. The other week wo mentioned our private graveyard and its five occupant**. This so txcited the jealousy of the old relio of the seventeenth century that ho borrowed a revolver and took a trip around town yesterday in search of bluod, He finally foand one of 001, MoOrackenV Digger Indians asleep in the bud, and opened fire on him from a distance of four feet. He didn't even wake the redtkin up, a&d Judge Tallman, who objected to so much noi^e around hin house, rent out and drove poor old palsy a*vay wi<h a broom, W" »rt poiry lor him, They eny lv cried while g'lrg tiaok to h <h one-horec alleged newapaier, and no wonder. II should nerer havo come weftt. H< oamo, on we ascertained, to evade arrest for bigamy, but he bhould have takon some other route/

No Extra (iia\ ok. — In this iaiue ! ire puol sb the full paifc culara of tw executions, 00(3 jail do'ivory, tbie ihootini? nffrajß, one highway robbery, two fi«t fi^hte, three dog fightfl, ot»f found dead, a drowning accdeut, tL> am ftt of a road agent, the demha ol two Mex'oanH in thu l*te blizzard, and tbo atealiog of Judge Sprout'a fourinnle team. The thing down tbo street which Oftils itself a newgpapor, and talks about its lightning press aod its wild-oyed corps of editorit from Now York, has, to match all this, a cookod-up aceouo of a fight between a jackaEis rabbit atid a Government camel, with its editor for the dole spectator and reporter. la it »ny woDderthat the people of Arzonn can't wait for The Ktoker to he lanufd each week, and that doz«no of tbfn. rooot on our d jor-Bti l } s all nigh 1 Wed. nceday night to get oopieo the fiißt thing Thurflday morning? All thm nod no extra charge, and no hand-billy out announcing that anything uoueual was going on !