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 The Legal World to be established, no child may be confined with persons charged with crimes; and children held for trial must be tried immedi ately and outside of the regular court-room. Frank H. McCune, the rate expert, who was the principal witness for the people of Spokane in the first fight before the Inter state Commerce Commission for equitable freight rates, uges the people of the country to support the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress in its efforts to secure the adoption by die United States Congress of an amend ment to the act to regulate commerce, "re quiring railroads to quote rates in writing when so requested by shippers, and that rates so quoted be protected to avoid loss to the shippers, and assessing a reasonable penalty against the carrier making the misquotation, so that the provision of the act against re bating may be kept inviolate." He thinks that such an amendment should have the indorsement of every commercial body in the United States.

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Milton McClure, the Republican nominee, by 2,882 votes. James M. . Morton of Fall River, Mass., Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Su preme Judicial Court, reached his seventysecond birthday September 12. He was appointed by Governor Brackett in 1890, having been one of the leading lawyers of Bristol county. Christopher Francis Parkhurst, Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who was elected to his present position Feb. 21, 1905, recently passed his fifty-fifth birth day. He was graduated from Brown Univer sity in 1876, and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1879. Associate Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, speaking at the annual banquet of the Vermont Fish and Game Association which occurred at Hotel Champlain, Vt., devoted the greater part of his address to urging the prevention of the pollution of the country's rivers and lakes.

Personal— The Bench Judge James B. Richardson of the Massa Justice N. D. Denson of the Supreme Court chusetts Superior Court is much interested of Alabama, who is retiring from the bench, in the claim that Samuel Morey of Orford, declares it to be his intention to practise law • N. H., and not Robert Fulton, was the in at his home town, Lafayette, Ala. ventor of the steamboat. Judge Richardson spends his summers at Orford, and has been forced to agree with the townspeople of Orford The election for city court judge of Ashburn, in this belief. Ga., September 20, resulted in a majority for Colonel R. L. Tipton of 47 votes over his Chief Justice James Pennewill, Resident opponent, Colonel John J. Story. Judge Henry C. Conrad of Sussex county and udge-at-Large Victor B. Woolley took their Judge Martin Lehmayer, who succeeds the Slaces on the bench of New Castle County, tel., recently for the first time. Until his late Judge Conway W. Sams on the Supreme Bench of Maryland, took his seat September appointment last June, Chief Justice Penne will had served as resident judge of Kent 15, amid the congratulations of his friends. county for twelve years. Judges Conrad and Woolley were not on the bench before. W. E. Scofield of Marion, O., received his commission from Gov. Harmon to succeed Marcus Morton of Newtonville, Mass., the late Boston G. Young as common pleas has succeeded the late Judge Gaskill as judge judge in that locality. of the Superior Court. Mr. Morton is fortyseven years old. His father was Chief Justice the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu Judge John C. Gray, who has been appointed of and his grandfather was a Justice of the Superior Judge of Butte county, Cal., to fill setts, Court and also Governor of Massa the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Supreme He graduated from Yale in the Warren Sexton, was sworn into office a chusetts. class of 1883 and also from the Harvard Law short time ago. School. Judge N. H. Mapes recently resigned his office of county judge in Colfax County, Neb., in order to attend a law school. Speeches and an oyster supper marked the appropriate observance of the occasion by his friends of Schuyler, Neb. George A. Cooke, a Democrat of Aledo, Mercer county, is the new member of the Illinois Supreme, Court to succeed the late Justice Guy C. Scott, chosen in the special election held September 25. He defeated

Vice-President Sherman, while in Kansas City recently, talked informally with Judge Guinotte. "I understand you have held the office of probate judge here about fifty years," he said, jokingly. "You do not look to be a man of more than forty. I understand, also, that you have these lawyers so well trained that they are willing to come right up and eat out of your hands. That's the system." Judge Guinotte made .no comment except to say he had held the office of probate judge for twenty-three years.