Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-22
PEN PICTURES
 AT THE CONVENTION

sCONVENTIONS !
 TUCSON. April 20-Henry Hill, of Clifton, is perhaps the best known man in Graham county and one Of the very few republicans who have been permitted to hold office in that demo cratic stronghold. Hill arrived at the military post of Fort Thomas, mean the line of the San Carlos Indian Res creation thirty years ago when 8 young man. He secured work with J. B. Collins, who at that time had a large mercantile establishment and | was one of the heaviest government contractors in Arizona, supplying the military post with hay, wood, beef, etc. Young Hill soon demonstrated | that he was possessed of superior bus mess ability and was put in charge of the detail work of filling many of Collins government contracts. After | accommodating a few hundred, dollars | in cash Hill was attracted to Clifton, | waere he started a corral business | and since then has been one of the | substantial and prosperous citizens of
 Graham county. He Is now vice pres | ident of the First National bank and president of the Clifton Water com pany, besides owning a large amount of desirable real estate in that city. He has always been prominent in the Republican party and several years ago was elected as member of the board of supervisors, which he pre- sided over as chairman for four years. He is regarded as one of the typical sons of Erin and his popularity is universal throughout Arizona.
 Hon. Herbert Penney, who calleo
 the convention to order as the chair
 man Of the Republican territorial
 committee, came to Tucson as boy
 in the year 1880. He has grown with the modern progress of Tucson. As
 the city has. advanced in importance and prominence during the last 2S years Mir. TenDey has kept even paceI with it. He aligned himself with the | Republican party when he arrived at the age which entitled him to vote;
 20 years ago he was one of the own | CTS of the Daily Citizen, then the acknowledged leading Republican pa l per of the territory. In the fifteenth l legislature when the capital was moved for the lower house. That was the session when the capitol was
 moved for the last time from Pres
 colt, About that time W, c. Davis
 and others purchased the consch- l dated National bank aSd since that time he has been the cashier of that | institution and now is one of the controlling owners. He has always l been one Of the loyal citizens of Ari- zona and of Tucson, and should the 1 time ever come that the Republicans | should gain control of the territory, i or new state, he would be in line for
 greater political honors.
 Hon. Mott Guild, of Pinal county is
 in the city as delegate Guild is a native of Arizona and was a member
 oF the last legislature, serving in the i lower house. Guild was several years
 ago a resident of Bisbee, where he
 became interested in mining his na-
 tive county of Piaal and secured some I copper properties in the Owl Head ! country which he has been deyel- | oping. Besides looking after his min i ing interests MT. Guild finds time to
 experiment in dry farming and near | Red Rock has tract of land now
 bearing the first experimental crop of wheat. Guild is young man and l the fact of his election to the legisla-
 ture as a Republican from Pinal coun- ty is sufficient evidence of his per sonal popularity.
 Among the attractive delegates to | the convention was Capt Thomas Of fhn | torial prison, at una. Capt. Rynning was for five years at the head of the l Arizona Rangers and as such became widely known in every section of the territory. He was one of the mem bers of the Arizona rough riders and after his return from Cuba was ea-
 gagged for time as building contrac-
 tor. When the building of the city ot Douglas began with 9 rush Rya- ming went there and continued his contracting business until he Ireceived | the appointment of captain of the 1 Rangers from Governor Brodie. Ryn- | ming established ranger headquarters l at Douglas, where he resided until ae | was appointed by Governor Kibbey l as superintendent of the prison Capt. 1 Rynning is/one of the finest speci- | mems of physical manhood to be | found in the territory of Arizona.
 From Cochise county comes J. F. l Crowley, of Wilcox, one of the | pioneers of the territory It is said
 of him that he attended the first Re publican convention ever held in that | county in the year 1882, the year after the creation. of that county by the legislature, and that he has never missed either committee meeting or a convention of his party since then. Crowley is a personal friend of ". F. Nichols, who only recently left the | office or secretary of the territory | Nichols was justice of the peace in Wilcos for 20 years in the days be- fore the wild and woody cowboy had been tanned to any noticeable degree. It is said that when Nichols ever was in doubt as to the nerve of the constable or deputy sheriff upon whom he depended for order in the court he always invited his friend | Crowley to just sit around the court until all signs of danger had subsided. Mir. Crowley was for long time in the saloon business, but he left this business when Judge Nichols left Wilcox first to fill the office of ter ritorial auditor and afterwards the of flee of secretary. Crowley at that time became interested with the lum- Der business at Wilcox and they are partners in that business yet.
 Judge R. E. Sloan of Prescott. who