Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-06
JUDGE KELLAM OUT.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE ST.
pREME COURT RESIGNS.
Gov sheldon Accepts the RcsiGnn-
tion and Has the Ap-
p~ointment to Judge Haney ket-
Jam's Resignation Said to BE Due
to Charges of immortality brought
Against Him

Pierre. :. u. Jan 30.-Hon. a. e..
kellam to-day rendered his resignation
as associate Justice of the supreme
court TO GOV. Sheldon. The reSiGna-
| ton WIS at once accepted. There Is
much Spc,ulition as To the causes which
led to This step. but Judge kelinm and
all other parties who may know are
silent upon the subject. and upon the
future plans Of Judge kellam. roy
Sheldon will have the appointment OF a
successor. who will hold for Il term of
four years from the first OF this month.
Judge Hnney Selected.
Mitchell. =. d., Feb. The vacancy
Sn the state supreme bench made by
the resignation of Judge kellam Will
be filled by the appointment of j. n.
Haney OF this city, the present presid-
ing Judge of the Fourth judicial dis
trict. Judge Haney left for Pierre
to-day. Judge Haney was born at
Lansing. Iowa, in 1852. His early boy
hood was spent in that vicinity. His
collegiate couTse vas taken at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa. and he attended the
law department of the state univer-
sity of Iowa, from which he graduated
in 1874. He practiced law at Ian
sing, his home town, until 1885. when
he removed to p~lankinton. s. D., and
continued the practice Of his profess
sion until the territory was admitted
as a state in 1889, since which time he
has been On the bench of the Fourth
judicitl district. Judge Haney's tit
Less for the position is not questioned.
rs he has been eminently successful
as a jurist on the circuit bench. He
was a candidate for this office in 1898,
but by q combination in the CONVEX
ton lie was defeated. His present
term Will expire in January. 1900.
Charges Against keIlam.
Pierre. :. d., Feb. This has been
a day of days for the lovers or Sensa-
ton and scandal in the capital city OF
South Dakota. The whole town has
been agog over the resignation OF A.
u. heliam as justice of the supreme
court and over the runners which have
been flying through the air. Certain
1t Is that the resignation came not as
4 matter Of choice, but Under pressure
or some mysterious but powerful ma
fure. The basis Of the charges il gross
immortality. He was given an ID
tunity OF denying these charges to-day.
but preserved silence. He seems Mt
terly crushed and broken by the de-
velopInents. There have been reports
that criminal charges would be filed
against him, but the parties directly
interested and who possess the evil
aerce necessary 10 convict are hesitat-
ing about swearing out complaints
owing 10 the stigma which il will
place upon their families. Judge.
heilam's family consists of n wife and
one son, Il student Of great promise at
lankton college. They have made the
Locke hotel their home since they
nave been in the city. and have fic-
ured prominently in all social and
pubic functions. Judge Kcllam has
hne literary tastes. and has been n
prime mover in all literary and intel
lectual matters in the city.
o Sheldon has rendered the an.
polntment of judge of the supreme
court to succeed Judge Kellam to
Judge Haney of Mitchell. This an.
polntuent will give general satisrac-
tlon TO both the bar and the peoplr az
the state. He is a man of fine legal
apihty. While he is a Republican In
politics he has never been q rank
partisan. So far as can be asccrtained
he Is not identified with n faction OF
sce district which he will represent