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judge John H. Rogers.—Federal Judge

Justice of the Supreme Court of Mon

John H. Rogers of the western district of Arkansas died in a hotel at Little Rock April 17. He went to Arkansas in 1869 from North Carolina, locating at Fort Smith. In 1877 he was elected to the state circuit bench and served

tana. He was a member of the Montana Constitutional Convention in 1889. From 1890 to 1904 he was United States district judge for Montana.

until 1882 and the next year went to

of Sir Henri Taschereau, Canada has

Congress. In 1896 he was appointed United States Judge by President Cleve

Sir Henri, who was born in 1836, was

land.

educated at the Quebec Seminary, and

Sir Henri Taschereau. —— By the death lost one of its most distinguished lawyers.

called to the bar in 1857.

In 1878 he

Ingold K .Boyesen. —— Ingold K. Boye sen, at one time one of the foremost

was promoted to the Supreme Court of

lawyers in the Middle West, died April 20, in Colorado Springs, where he had lived for the last ﬁve years. Before going there for his health he was a

became Chief Justice. On account of advancing age he resigned the Chief

member of the law ﬁrm of Herrick, Boyesen, Morson & Allen of Chicago, one of the most prominent corporation

Charles Fitzpatrick. He was the author of works on the criminal law of the

ﬁrms of that city. He was a brother of the late Hjalmar H. Boyesen, the Nor wegian author.

Canada.

the Dominion, of which he afterwards

Justiceship three years ago, when he was succeeded by the Right Hon. Sir

Dominion and on the civil law of Lower

Edward A. Moseley. — Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, died at Wash

Stephen A. Osborn. — Stephen A. Os ington April 18 after a long illness. Mr. born, a prominent attorney of Denver,

died May 2. He was born in Wisconsin July 25, 1851, was educated at Tabor College, Iowa, and began the practice of law at Brownville, Neb.

In Denver

he was associated with the legal depart ment of the Burlington road for many years. In Colorado he specialized in irrigation law and was an acknowledged

authority. He was connected with many irrigation enterprises.

Judge

Hiram

Moseley was recognized as an authority upon measures designed to insure the safety of railway employees and travel ers, and was instrumental in securing the

Knowles. — Hiram

Knowles of Missoula, Mont., died April 6. He began his career in Nevada in 1862, becoming prosecuting attorney of Humboldt County. In 1865 he moved

enactment of laws requiring the use by railways of safety devices. Born at Newburyport, Mass, on March 23, 1846, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, became a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and had been secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1887. He was a thirty-second

degree Mason, a standing committeeman of the Massachusetts Society of the

to Idaho, and on to Montana in 1866.

Cincinnati, ex-president-general of the American-Irish Historical Society, and a member of the Society of Colonial

From 1868 to 1879 he served as Associate

Wars and many other clubs and societies.