Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Western Editorial Life. [ARTICLE]

Western Editorial Life.

We extract the following from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker, says the Detroit Free Fraas; "That gander-shanked living skeleton who edits the mortgaged sheet down on Blackjack avenue is out with a tirade against us for shooting Sioux Jim last week. He is seeking to get up a public feeling against us, although he very well knows that we were fully exonerated by the coroner’s jury. “Sioux Jim. who was a half breed, was fighting drunk. He was looking (or a victim when he met us on Apache avenue. He drew his knife with the purpose of carving our anatomy to strings, but before he could oroceed we pulled our gun and sent six red-hot bullets into his carcass. He was the third man we have had to kill this fall In defense of our own life, and as we have had to pay all the burial expenses ta each case no bne can claim that we have shot for fun. It cost us $36 cold cash to pt.rnt Jim in decent shape, and no one would have given $lO for him when alive.' -Viiii iiitf -r~-• y »r ! v