The San Francisco call., 1905-04-19
SET CALENDARS
OF NEW COURTS
Appellate Judges Decide to
Begin Work of Hearing
Cases Early Next Month
JOHNSON MADE A CLERK
General Consultation for
Consideration of Rules
Is Held by the Jurists
JOHNSON MADE A CLERK

+ The three Appellate Courts of Cali
fornia created by the people at the
election of last November and filled.
with judicial incumbents by appoint
ment of the Governor early this
month will take UP their work in the
various districts in May. The Appel
late Court of the First District, in
which are San Francisco and Alameda
counties. will be the first to begin the
holding of sessions
The Supreme Court Commission. all
of whose members have been appoint
ed to the new courts, has probably
passed out of existence for good. The
Commissioners upon receiving their
appointments as Appellate Judges
rendered their designations to Chief
Justice Beatty of the Supreme Court,
the power that appointed them. The
terms of the Commissioners would not
have expired before May IL and the
Supreme Court has power to appoint
new lot but it is quite improbable
that it will do SO. The commission
had but two officers, secretary and
an assistant secretary and stenogra-
pher. The former has been taken
care of by one of the new courts and
the other will probably be. They
NSiC potA oPPoiulcu ny TIE supreme
Court.
Appellate Judges R. C. Harrison, J.
A. Cooper and Samuel p. Hall, who
occupy the bench of the First District
Appellate Court met yesterday at the
office in the Supreme Court quarters
occupied by Judge Harrison as a COM
missioner and settled the questions of
who shall be clerk and when they
shall begin sessions. A. w. Johnson,
secretary of the commission, was
made clerk, and May 10 was fixed
upon as the date when the court of
this district will hold it's first sitting.
Judges Cooper and Harrison will re-
tain the offices now occupied by them
and Judge Hall will take that to be
vacated by General Chipman, who is
on the Third District bench. OF the
other three rooms, two will be set
aside for the clerk and his deputy and
one for the stenographer and the bal
lift.
JOHNSON CLERK OF FIRST.
The appointment of Johnson is the
end of an active political fight. James
R. Oliver, secretary of the Prison
Commission, was also candidate. 1t
is said the main reason for his defeat
is that he was deemed too valuable an
employe for the Prison Board to let
go, so he and the many influential
friends who worked for him have
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in defeat. Johnson was deputy Su-
preme Court clerk six years and has
been secretary of the commission
three years.
Miss E. B. McKeen, stenographer
and assistant secretary of the Supreme
Court Commission, is among the cam
didates for the position of deputy
clerk of the First District Court.
Neither a deputy clerk nor any other
officer except the clerk was chosen at
the meeting esterday.
The First District Judges have been
assigned 200 cases. They will take
UP first those that have been hang
ing fire the longest and in which there
Is more urgent need of decisions.
These number thirty or forty. To
hear and decide 200 cases Is a years
work and cannot be done at one term.
Thre are a number of applicants for
admission to the bar and the Judges
of the First District Court will hear
applications for certificates at the
May session.
Judge Harrison will be the presiding
Judge of the First. Judge Gray of the
Second, and General Chapman Of the
Third District.
in this city yesterday. They held
consultation at General Chipman's Of
flee during the afternoon and settled
upon some necessary rules.
REPORTERS SALARY SMALL.
Homer Wood, clerk of the Third
District Court. was present during part
of the conference. Woods appointment
was also arrived at after warm po-
litical fight. 1t was announced that
he was the special candidate of Cen
eral Chapman, but this is denied by
politicians on the inside, who say that
a totally different force brought about
his appointment.
The clerk of the Second District
Court. in the jurisdiction of which is
Los Angeles, has not yet been ap-
pointed. There is a fight for the place.
among the leading candidates being
Justice of the Peace Lille of Visalia.
j. NJ. ,Ieredith of Los Angeles and
Deputy County Clerk Warren of Los
Angeles. The members of this court,
Judges Wheaton A. Gray, M. T. Allen
and George H. Smith, will meet early
next week in Los Angeles and make a
selection. In fixing its calendar the
Second District Court will follow the
lines of the Supreme Court.
For each of the three courts there
remain to be appointed a deputy clerk,
stenographer and bailiff, the first
two at $3.50 a month each, and the lat
ter at 500. There are few applica-
tions for the positions of reporters be-
cause of the smallness of the salary
and several of the new Judges have
expressed the opinion that the Legis-
lature should have made the salary of
this place larger.
The calendar of the Third District
has been set for May 10. The members
of this court, Judges N. P. Chipman,
A. j. Buckles and C. E. Mclaughlin,
will meet in Sacramento Thursday to
select rooms at the State Capitol
Those members of the new courts