Arizona republican., 1899-02-26

Instead Of Joe McCunagh's eptthet
 audience would therefore be spared 2
 mass of figures and facts.
 Poor Old Missouri In enterprise anC
 wealth, the progress made by the state
 in 50 years will show up in cOntra3t with any part of our nativity"
 Judge DOan referred to the reputed Miss0ur. an who mads hi5living b. act ing as an interpreter between the p9C- pie of Missouri and Arkansas When i Captain ParIzer's family went down to visit Judge Bunch's family in ArEan-
 sas, by virtue of understand ng EOth languages huently Le was able to make their conversation ineligible to each other. (Laughter.)
 Having thus spoken of the st2te in 1 q jocuIar way. Judge Loan turned to it5 i business and intellectual wealth.
 we have one town he said, that l spends q million dollars year in sup pert of it's public schools
 He spoke of the colleges of Nilsson i i in 2 compli1nentaT vein.
 Tn the early part of the Ce1tu~y ] when civilization and enlightenment made 9 stride westward, they stopped on the banks Of the Mississippi. A ] half century later they again advance i and Missouri sent 10 tn thrae-flur Fs | to nine-tenths of the ability and strong g-azmed inte ligenca that have 1 developed the states of the Pacific | coast. Pike ~ounty sent more intelH- gence and more nerve to develop the Pacific coast, than any state in tLe uniOn'
 Judge Doan spoke cf Bent Il anI Bates in sn eUIogtstic way.
 Scotland. he said, has te, R be t Burns and England a ShaHeE pesrC. but Joe Bowers has gone into the fields Of p0esy and given Us a place second to none"
 He closed by eomp1imenting th-se present and stated that al, pres ent were another evidence Of the f Ct that Missouri always comes t2 the front.
 The Rev. LapsIey HcAfee, wnO tame next On the programme, gave addi- tional honcr to Pike county in his re- marks.
 'In bible history there were two m an who b1asted of their Roman ci,iz5n- ship. Ore said he had purchased his with a great price, and tte other said he was born a citizen. Judge DOan has purchased his Missouri citizenship in railroad fare, Qaughter.} while 1 am native born, and in Pike county toe. Quite recently I lived a neighb1r cf ' V distinction that Missourian can aspire to. QaughterD Pike's Peak is the biggest thing on the Rocky mcuR- tains and I am glad Cf It, fer tha Pike- after whom the mountain was named was the same man for Wh-m Pike county, Mo, was called.
 Missouri is the most nearly in dependent Of any state in the union. Pennsylvania can claim her splendid
 
 vast deposits of bitumiOus coal. Cali fOrnia boasts of her fruit; Miss -u.i is ] great fruit state. Illinois is proud of her p-arI6s and wheat fields; II ssOurt produces immense quantities of wheat l and corn. Colorado and Ar'z0na boast l of their bUrrOs; but we have mules in plenty, great, big creatures. Missouri has great mineral wealth. In iron, we lead; we have zinc, lead, some silve', 1 it is s1id, coal, cereals, fruit, forests, l and high and low lands-We are the i peCple!!
 Mrs. Parker came from Pike coun- 1 ty, too" GA vcice said: And Ms Doan tOO-O Yes, and Mrs. Dean. can ! say we are three cousins, as we all came from Pike county" tLaughter) l
 Mr. IcAfee closed his Gddr ss by stating that it was greet calamity hat Missouri has few people who are ashamed of her. He referred to some 1 5f the rural districts. 'Np Cre need be i ashamed of the state" he said
 1t has been shown tia. the Missouri i ate Sunday School assO Ociat on is the ] test organized Cf any section Of coun- ! try in al Chfisterdom.
 He also spoke Of the End savor work ! 2eing dCne 5n the state and said that 1. 1t had moro persons who can lay claim | 0 the .stinctive tile of b-ing Chris 1 tians, than any other state in the i union.
 Hon. George W. P. Hunt o3 GIla ! 7Ounty, nade~a neat speech. He said le was proud Of the cld state; that his 1 lncestCTs located there when 1t was )nly a territory and that he was the | jniy one Of the family who had | wandered so far away om the family , 1eaTthstone. MissOurians he said are . , migratory people. Wherever he has | gone in the western states he h7s . 'Ound Miss0urians. E-e was g.ad to b be 1 resent on this occasi2n.
 Judge '. J. Edwards Of CT be was j ral'ed upon. Judge B0werGs said he . would sneak if permitted to use the . iative tongue. On being assured of !. x his by the D esidert, he said that 48 ! ears ago he crossed the Missouri . 'ivar at Q little town near Kansas Ci y, 1 he rame of which he no l-nger re- l uenbeTej
 ''Westp0rt Landing promptly re- i died 2 voice in the audience.
 'Yes, that's it." replied Judge Ed [ wards. and he then proceeded to relate | hat he arrived in California Sep5em- i per 28, 1S50. Missouri" he sail had . nOugh iron in it's borders to band the k 2arth a mile wide and an inch thic S In lands, agricultural products, and |