Arizona republican., 1908-04-10

room, a long line of cots where he was told he might find his brother He went along and lifted eac.: S1eet to see which one was his brother. an ac- tion which Governor Kibbey later re- ferred to as proving Col. McClintock a tenderfoot, or else that it was the deed of some other tenderfoot who had not been heard of since. The Colonel said that 1t took one days wild doings with the gun play of a few. to make Phoenix over from an outlaw camp into the semblance of a Sunday school session. But those days were past. With July 4th, 1887. the day when the first railroad came into Phoenix, dates the real civilization of Phoenix, and with the coming of the Santa Fe an- other epoch began. and with the Tonto project yet another and a greater era.
 Governor Kibbey remarked that he had been in the territory 20 years less three weeks, and that he came, like most men, accidentally, as the at tOrney for men who thought of build ing canal in Gila valley. He said it was a great source of qualification to him and to all to meet and talk over their personal experiences. The American people are a migratory people. characteristicafly so. But the pioneers in any country as a rule were not those /whO profited most by their enterprise, rather was it left to them to make and blaze the trail for those who should follow and accumu- late fortune He had seen twenty of ttrntaAarfnl from days when he made most of his circuit by stage to this hour, when all the principal county seats are on railroads and the territory now has more miles of railroad per capita than any state in the union.
 Judge Pinney made the closing ad- dress. one happily appropriate to the occasion and much enjoyed by all. His sentiments were hOmely. appealing, and got right down to the new turned soil. He said that the settlers, the common people. were the salt of the earth. The foundation of manhood was honor, temperance and character, and he dwelt particularly on this point. holding up an ideal of manhood to the young and old. With the salt of the earth as he termed them. he entrusted the leading ladies of the land'' as they were termed, who had millionaire husbands -and wore $3000 dresses, and gave 10 o'clock breakfasts to other leading ladies of similar small mentality and purposes in fife. In these days of ladies in love with the diamonds. the violets and the vine, he loved to recall the old-fashioned pious grandmother who wore a n-bonnet to school. to meeting and to the al tar In this connection he read poem, of like theme. He said the old friends were the ones who would come to you through sickness and wealth or fame. it made no difference to them. Quoting. he said: There are no friends like old friends. and none so good and true. We greet them when we meet them, as the roses greet the dew; no other friends are dearer, though born of kindred mold. and while we prize the new ones, we treasure more the old"
 Before closing the afternoons pro- gram. a resolution was offered thank ing the Methodist church which had granted the privilege of the grounds; and another to Judge Pinney for in the movement for an an nual old Settlers picnic in Arizona. The assemblage was dismissed by the occasion was a splendid success in all its various features and the day was ideal for such an event.