The Arizona sentinel., 1897-11-13
NEW CKIEE sUsTiCE STREET.
His Appointment Announced Last
 Saturday.

J0OKe WeDSLreeG WAS EesteFuay appointed chief justice of the su- preme court of Arizona 10 fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Judge Truesdals. The an nouncement of Judge Streets ap pointment was made in Phoenix late in the afternoon. The esteem in which the new chief justice is held a. home was shown Tn ringing cheers which went up alsng Wash ington street as the news ot the ap- pointment spread. The election board suspended business to join in the general jolliicstion on Wall street.
 Judge Streets elevation did not create a great deal of surprise, how ever, for his friends had been con- 6dently predicting his appointment in the event that it was made from among the Arizona applicants. It is said President Mckinley had determined last June to make Judge Street chief justice and had even made announcement to supporters of the jndge that he would transmit his name. Complications arose, though, from the almost irresistible support of Judge Truesdale, who was appointed on June 26
 Judge Streets endorsement were largely local. He had the tacit, if not formal, support of the bar in nearly all parts of the Territory and was beside endorsed by most of the gentlemen now holding federal or Territorial offices in Ari- zona. Upon Judge Truesdale's death these latter endorsements were regarded as the solid support of the administration.
 The new chief justice is native of Ohio. He is about 51 years of age and has lived in the Territory twenty years.
 He first resided at Kingman, afterwards at Tucson and still later at Tom bstons in the early days. He came to Phoenix twelve years ago and became associated in the practice of law with Ben Goodrich and afterward with Frank Cox. The latter partnership WAS maintained until three years ago, when Judge Street and Attorney General Frazier formed 6 partnership.
 During 8 part of his residence in Tombstone he was judge of the county court of Cochise county. The county court held coordinate 1 jurisdiction with the district court, SO that many important matters were adjudicated. A suit involving certain properties of the Copper Queen and one of the most impoT. tant mining cases ever brought in Arizona, was tried before him. His decision in the matter was 90 com prshenaive and clear that the case was never appealed. Mark Smith said of him at that time that he was the ablest judge before whom he had ever practiced.
 He has been a tireless political worker. He has several times per mitted Republican conventions in this county to nominate him for office without the slightest hope of overcoming a Democratic majority of more than 600. He entered campaigns and fought through them with ss great zeal as if he had an even chancs.
 Judge Streets knowledge of the law is laid upon strong founda- tion. After graduating from the high schsol at Salem, O., where he was born, he was graduated from Antioch college. He read law and in 1871 he was admitted to the bar in Salem. Alter practicing there some time he moved to Pittsburg, Pa., continued in practice there two years and half, and then came to Arizona.-RepubIicGr.
 In the Cause of Education.