Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXX, Number 100, 6 January 1903 — LOU GOES TO ' SUPREME COURT Gage Raines Successor to Temple NOWSUPERIOR JUDGE OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Jlany Other Appointments Made by the Governor, Including Charles M. Shortrldge, to Be Building and Loan Commissioner [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOU GOES TO ' SUPREME COURT Gage Raines Successor to Temple NOWSUPERIOR JUDGE OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Jlany Other Appointments Made by the Governor, Including Charles M. Shortrldge, to Be Building and Loan Commissioner

SACRAMENTO, Jan. s.—The following appointments were made today by Governor Gage: Superior Judge William G. Lorlgan of Santa Clam county to be justice of supreme court, vice Jackson Temple, deceased; Charles M. Shortrldge to be building and lean, commissioner, vie? E. D. McCabi'; J. C. McKinley to member of the toard tf regents of thd stilt* universal-, vie Arthur Rodgers.; It. J. Hose, jr., of Oxnard, to bo a director of the stale board .if agriculture, vtee J,. _Uarrls, resigned; William

Land, to be a member of the state board of agriculture, vice Park Henshaw, term expired; James Whittaker of Gait, to be a member of the state board of agriculture, vice A. W. Barrett, term expired. Thomas Fox, chairman of the Sacramento Democratic county central committee, was appointed a' member of the state board of agriculture. It was reported tonight that there was a move on foot to defeat the confirmation of Governor Gage's appointments In the senate tomorrow morning. Later it was learned that a number of Gage's friends were at work trying to indues a majority of the senators to agree to a suspension of the rules ot the senate tomorrow morning, so as to prevent the appointment from going to a committee. It is feared by the Gage contingent that if the appointments are placed in the hands of the committee they would either be reported adversely or with-

held until such time as their validity can be questioned. It is for the purpose of overcoming this obstacle that the Gage men ape endeavoring to secure enough votes to suspend the rules of the organization and then to pass upon the commissions in open session. At a late nour the opponents of GaKe announce that they had defeated the aims of the opposing faction. The affair created a decided stir and augurs a lively sJtirmish between the Gage and anti-Gage faction? tomorrow morning. Judge \V. G. Lorigan was burn in Australia in 1855, during the temporary residence of his parents there. His father urd mother were natives of Ireland, who settled in Ohio. In 1(.60 the family removed to Santa Clara county, California. There the son passed his youth and ear* iy manhood, obtaining his education at Sana Clara college and at St. Vincent's college in Cape Girardeau. Mo. He studied law with Moore, Laine. Delmas and Litb at San Jose, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court in 1879. In IS9O he was elected superior judge of Santa Clara county, and was re-elecled li. 1K96. Judge Lorlgan is an influential member of the Young Men's Instl'ute. and also belongs: to'the Foresters and'the Elks. NEW JUSTICES SEATED Angellotti and Shaw Meet With th« Supreme Court . ; SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.. o.—The per- ' sonnel of the state supreme court was changed todlay when those elected in November to .=1: on the bench took their p.aces for the first time. C. H. Garoute turned 111? chambers over to Justice F. -M. Angellotti. elected from Marin county. ana li. C. Harrison gave place to Justice Lucien Shaw of Los Ar.'ge'es. | The announcement was made that Judge: Lorlgan of Santa Clara had. been appointed by Governor Gage to succeed Ji'.stlc«Temple, deceased. In tW» cicrk's office George W. Root! and his d-puties gave place to Frank C. Jordan and his s<talT. The newly in- 1 stalled clerk of the court has about him the following deputies by recent appointment: O. A. Tolle, J. C. Crook?, R. ;D. Duke. A. M. Duncan. Of these J. C. Crooks nas appointed from Oakland I and-A. M. Ar.cijrscn from Mendocino : county. A. Tolle and R. D. Duke are San Francisco men*. I The new deputies take charge today of the clerks office at Sacramento ar.fi' Los Angeles, M. Daroux having been appointed to succeed himself as deputy a; Sacramento and J. E. Meredith beinir the new appointee for Los Angeles. in the attorney general's office U. S. Webb, the governor's appointee, succeeded' himself by virtue of his recent election.

JTrDOB -WILLIAM G. LORTGAN. NEWLY APPOINTED MEMBER O). THE SUPREME BENCH.