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Show I R.A BALUNGER ' I DIES IN SEATTLE I Taft Administration Row! l With Pinchot Recalled H By Jurist's Death SEATTLE. Wash.. June 7, With the death of Judge Klcflard A. Bal-ll.?eh.re Bal-ll.?eh.re Tuesday, there passe. . one 1 fMitl(-'' most prominent citizens ' vhose contributions In Washington jurfsprudcnce were recognised as I SSXSS ud a CltuN at one time conspicuously before the pub I M binet official in the administration It Resident Taft. Soon after his appointment a secretary of the interior in-terior in 1909, Judge nalllnKcr set about deciding title to the Alaskan ,-oal land claims I-ouls R. OlAVlB. i, chief S the Alaska field division of I .he general land office became In volved m n controversy with Secre tary Balllnser. alleging that thj - retary was friendly to the Cvinning-ham Cvinning-ham IntRests m AlartA. OlWortl Pinchot, Chief of the forestry Bervlco. took up the fight for Glavis. attacking attack-ing Bollinger. President Taft sided with liimg. r and removed Pirn hot from -off ice, but I Secretary Bnilinger relieved the presli ijti dent of further embarrassment n H "0 resinning his post In 191 J on the plea J of ill health. 1 Judge liullingcr had 1-e.n a I dent 61 the state of Washington since the early eighties. coming to Port Townsend, Wash., to pr.,. : e I IW soon U after grnduatlncr from Williams col-K col-K legp He had been a resident of Seattle since 1896, serving the city an mayor from 1904-06 He was author ! of Balllnger's Vnnotat.-d ',,,l.s anil Statutes of Washington, and Ballin-ger Ballin-ger on Community Property. ! He was senior member of the law firm of Bnilinger. Battle. Hurlburt and Shorts, and held membership in the Rainier club of Seattle. ii ; oo |