Press Democrat, Volume XXXI, Number 8, 10 January 1905 — FIVE JUDGES SELECTED Governor Will Name Present Supreme Court Commissioners to Appellate Tribunal FOUR OTHERS TO NAME Selections Not to Be Officially Announced Until Bill to Supply the Necessary Appropriations Has Become a Law [ARTICLE]

FIVE JUDGES SELECTED Governor Will Name Present Supreme Court Commissioners to Appellate Tribunal FOUR OTHERS TO NAME Selections Not to Be Officially Announced Until Bill to Supply the Necessary Appropriations Has Become a Law

Special Dispatch to Press Democrat. Sacramento, Jan. 9. —Governor Pardee has settled upon five of the nine new judges for the newly created District Court of Appeals and they are Ralph C. Harrison of San Francisco, George H. Smith of Los Angeles, N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff, Wheaton A. Gray of Visalia and James A. Cooper of Visalia, the present Supreme Court Commissioners. By reason of their experience and close association with the Supreme Court Justices they will have an advantage in expeditious organization of the new courts it Is believed. Judges Harrison *%nd Cooper will preside in San Francisco district, leaving one to be appointed there. Judges Smith and Gray will be in the Los Angeles district with one new man, while Judge Chipman will serve In the Sacramento district, to which two more appointments must be made. The announcement of the appointments will not be made until the bill making the necessary appropriation for the maintenance of ihe new courts has been passed. Governor Pardee refuses to confirm or deny this report, but says when the time arrives he will make his appointments public.