The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-25

the states of Iowa Missouri, Nebras-
ka, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming
and embrace between four and five
thousand miles. r. w. Blair. will be
appointed to succeed Mr.. LOOMS and
Henry Scrandrett to succeed Blair
Not a Surprise.
To his Topeka friends the news of
the appointment of Mr.. LOOMS to the
position of general solicitor of the
Union Pacific to succeed ]. N. Bald
win. who died last week, following a
lingering illness, will not come with
any great degree of surprise.
1t has been generally recognized
that Mr.. LOOMS had been marked for
a promotion by the powers that con-
troll the Union Pacific and the Harri-
man lines an dthat. at the first op-
portunity that presented itself he
would be given a position common
surate with the talents that he has
displayed.
Last April his name was linked
congratulating him and expressing I'M
counselor for the Hartman lines in
all law cases arising under the inter-
state commerce act. A tender was
made to him of the position, but Mr.
LOOMS after considering at length
decided to remain in Topeka and con-
tinue in his present position of gener-
al attorney for Kansas and Missouri
At the time though his friends were
congratulating him and expressing pm
feigned delight at the prospects of his
promotion, yet they regretted exceed
ingly to think of his probable removal
from Topeka to Chicago. The hosts OF
: friends that Mr.. Loomis has made in
his q years of residence in Topeka
and his neighbors in Potwin will have
the same feeling today when they learr
of his new position and his consequent
removal to Omaha where his headquar-
tiers are to be from now on.
Mr.. Loomis is out of the city so thai
the exact time of his leave taking Of
Topeka as his home could not be
learned, though since the appointment
is already effective it is probable thai
Mr.. LOOMS will arrange for the de.
parture of himself and family imme
diately upon his return.
Something About Mr.. Loomis.
The new general solicitor of the
Union Pacific is As years of age. ant
1t is safe to say that he is one of the
youngest attorneys in the United States
to reach a position of such extreme
Importance. He has received. how.
ever, in the present position which he
relinquishes to Mr.. Robert Blair. as
sistant general attorney, a good school
ing for his new duties. Next to Ne.
braska, the position of general attor.
ney for Kansas is considered to be ths
most important position of that char
acter in the legal department of tn,
railroad. Twelve hundred of the 800
miles of the Union Pacific are within
the borders of this state and the mum
Der of law cases arising within its tw,
hundred miles of breadth and fou
hundred of length are second only I,
the state to the north. The Union Pa
cific reaches into Nebraska Kansas
Colorado. Wyoming and Utah witt
terminals in Missouri at Kansas CITY
SO that it may be said to penetrate fiy,
different states and Mr.. LOOMS viii
represent the western head of all lie
gal matters of the railroad in thes
five states.
Twenty-Five years ago n. n
Loomis, general solicitor for tn
Union Pacific railroad, came to Kansa
in a covered wagon all the way fron
Chicago. He was then a boy of 6
perhaps just an ordinary sort of bo
who was taken off of the lots aroun