The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-14
First Governor of Arizona
Takes His Office.
Inauguration Ceremony Is
Marked by Simplicity.
HE WALKS TO THE CAPITOL
Head of FOrty-Eighth State
Formerly a Waiter.
Urges Legislation for Recall
and Against Lobbying.

Phoenix. Ariz., Feb. 14-With western
simplicity, known elsewhere I'm matters
official as "Jeffersonian.r George w. p.
lsunt was inaugurated as the first state
governor of Arizona today. A few hours
earlier in the day. word had come by
telegraph from washington that Presi-
dent Taft had signed the proclamation
admitting Arizona to the Union the
last Of the territories on contiguous
soil, and the forty-eighth state.
In the ceremonies attendant upon the
birth of the state. and the induction
into Office Of its first executive. the mill
itary was conspicuous by its absence.
the new governor being averse to osten-
tation. There was but meager dis
play even Of silk hats. and froclS coatI,
which invaded Arizona only a few yeas
ago.
Accompanied by a number OF the
| newly elected state officers and a few
close friends, Governor Hunt, who be-
gan life in Arizona quarter OF a CEN
tury ago as a waiter in a small mining
camp restaurant at Globe, walked TO
the capitol building, which stands Just
about a mile from the center OF the
city.
Crowd Wild With Enthusiasm.
A flash by telegraph from Washing
ton that President Taft had signed the
proclamation Of admission was the sig
nal for wild ouNburst Of enthusiasm
from thousands of citizens OF the new
state who had gathered at the capital
for the inaugural The plea OF Gov
ernor Hunt for a quiet decorous cere-
mony as forgotten.
The air was rent by wild shouts and
yells, the shrieking of whistles and the
heavy report of bombs.
Governor Thomas +. Marshall Of In
diana arrived today to attend the in
auguration. He was on the stand with
Governor Hunt when Chief Justice
Kent administered the oath OF Office.
William Jennings Bryan. who came
to the capital with Governor Hunt
yesterday remained in seclusion until
? o'clock this afternoon when ne de-
livered an address to 5000 or more
persons in the city hall plaza.
Inauguration Is Brief.
The mat guration ceremonies wesa
brief. After a prayer BY Rev. Seaborn
Cratehheld. who was chaplain Of the
constitutional convention. over which
Mr.. Hunt presided the oath OF Ofhce
was administered by Chief Justice Ed
ward Kent cf the territorial supreme
court, his last official act in that ca
paoity. Richard F. Sloan, Arizonas
last territorial governor. stood beside
his successor Then followed the in
auguration address. in which Governor
Hunt promised the new state golden
rule administration and pledged anew
his fealty to the constitution which ha
The old state officers. who. with tho
governor, Immediately assumed their
new duties, are.
Secretary Of state. Sidney p. Osborns
state treasurer. d. L. johnson; state
auditor, }. c. Callaghan. attorney gem
eral George Purdy Bullard; sGperiii-
tendent of public instruction. G.. q.
Case; supreme court judges. Alfred
Franklin, j. c. Cunningham. Henry d.
Ross; cooperation commissioners, T.. a.
Jones, A. W. Cole and W. p. Geary.
He's ..From Missouri"
The new governor OF Arizona fs a
native Of Missouri, and is not yet 90
years of age. He Is a member OF the
Sons of the American Revolution. a
Shriner. and an Elk. He was "A first
cousin Of Richard Yates, war governor
of Illinois Mr. Hunt came to Arizona
in the early eighties and punched" n
burrO into Globe. Later he became a
clerk in the Old Dominion Commercial
company Of which he iF now president
and largest owner of stock.
Seven years ago he married Miss
Duett Ellison. a native Of Arizona, and
daughter Of one Of the pioneer ranch
crs of the territory. Tl4ey have one
daughter Virginia. Like her husband.
Mrs. Hunt cares little for display. She
is an excellent horsewoinan and an ex-
pert shot. Her vacations are spent on
the Ellison ranch in the Sierra Anches
ZOE miles from Globe.
She goes to and from the ranch on
horseback cerrying her little daughter
with her.
Governor Hunts address was short
and succinct and while breathing the
spirit of progressive. Democracy. Ie-
ferred only to two things in the pros
pective legislation program.
The first state legislature, the COVER
nor declared. must replace in the con-
stitution the provision for recall of
judges, and an anti-lOtbyist measure.
Blow Up Mountain Side.
Bisbee. Ariz., Feb. 1.-THE news Of
the signing by President Taft Cf the
proclamation admitting Arizona into
the Union was heralded in Biebee to-
day by the explosion Of 4S sticks
dynamite placed In a pocket In Copper
Queen Mountain. The dynamite was
exploded by the touching Of an electric
button in a telegraph office a mile away.