Show JUD GIAl NOMINATIONS That of Judge J Holmes Takes Well in Washington COURT OF CLAIMS JUDGESHIP Likely to Go to Judge Robert M Douglas of North Carolina Oil as Fuel for War Vessels Forest Wealth of the Philippines Wireless Wire-less Telegraphy Patents Report on Better Use of Western Waters for Irrigation 5 CORRESPONDENCE TRIBUTE Washington Aug J411 vrs n glt1at surprise the President gave Washing ton this week In the appointment or the son uf the Autocrat of the Br a leftist Table to the United States prune bench The retirement of Justice Gray had been expected A year ago he nr fcred n stroke of paralysis and he has been an Invalid since The people were vory familial1 with his huge heavy figure It I was his habit to walk from tho Capitol down Pennsylvania avenue every fair afternoon when tho court was In session The distance from the Capitol to I his house upon Sixteenth street IF nearly two mllci nnd the walk seemed to he one of the greatest pleasures oC the day to the big Jurist lie 1 was usually accompanied accom-panied by Justices ITarlan and White two lnunense men with smoothshaven faces much resembling Gray lit face and figure Since Justice Gray had tIll Jirst stroke of paralysis he has not attended at-tended the Supreme court and his doctors doc-tors told him that to do FO meant certain cer-tain death With his colossal physique I any exertion was sure to bring on another an-other stroke which would doubtless be fatal 3Irs Gray who was a daughter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews has nursed her husband constantly and it was owing to her entreaties that he finally decided to retire As a retired re-tired Justice he receive the tull salary I of 510000 for life Justice Gray had I been on the Supreme bench longer than any other man there except Justice Harlan rue new Justice Mr Holmes was not himself an intimate friend of the President but he was very high In the estimation of the circle of Massachusetts Massachu-setts politicians and statesmen with whom the President has been most identified Senator Hoar amid those who move with him in public affairs in and about Boston have always been known to regard Mr Holmes as one of the ablest jurists of his generation It is said that he Is as witty as his famous fa-mous father Even In his decisions his propensity for joking breaks out This is President Roosevelts first appointment appoint-ment to the Supreme bench lie will probably have three more Justice Shims Is already eligible for retirement retire-ment having reached the age of 70 Chief Justice Fuller and Justice liar lan are Gil The appointment of Justice Holmes takes well hero Another judicial appointment expected ex-pected soon will bring up ancient history his-tory In an Interesting way By the refusal re-fusal of Senator McLaurln to accept a position on the bench of the Court of Claims the President has been compelled com-pelled to take up the consideration of other names It is believed that he has finally Hultlod on the name of Hobort Martin Douglas an Associate Justice of the Supreme court of North Carolina Caro-lina A glance at his career shows him lo be a man of the very sort that the President delights to honor Ire Is a younger son of the famous Lillie Giant of Illinois Stephen A Douglas When Douglas forsook Democracy all lila family followed his example The son llobert was sent to orth Carolina in 1SGS to serve as private sercertnry to the Governor of the State He formed attachments which have kept him In North Carolina ever since President Grant Invited him to Washington Wash-ington in ISCn to act us one of his secretaries sec-retaries and he remained here four years lie returned to North Carolina and the practice of law at the close of Grants first term and has steadily advanced ad-vanced in his standing at the bar It Is conceded that he has risen to the Supreme bench of the State by his merits and his friends In all parties wish him success s i The Court of Claims Is a peculiar berth Its chief Juntice ls I one of the two Federal Judges appointed by Pres ident Lincoln The present chief Jus tlce Is Charles Cooper Xott who served through the Civil war in an Iowa cay alry regiment and was for thirteen months a prisoner of war In Texas Lincoln appointed him at the close of the war and > Cleveland made him chief justice when Judge Richardson dieti Jl 1SJG Judge NIL has written many books among them a volume on hal prison life during the war and a more pretentious work entitled The Seven Great Hymns of the Medieval Church Hc Is still < a vigorous man although he is quite old He win In all probability remain on the bench until he is entitled to retire or Is too fccblu to continue his labors The court was created by Congress In 1865 and has had but two chief Justices rt J8 nottl 101 doing a vast alnount of hard work and enjoying poor pay The Jusl1c Hct 400 0 a year anti the Chief Justice 150 Time ollici Federal Judge still r21tiimg who besides Chief Jife lice Nolt Tna appolntd by President T Lincoln is Judge Henry Caldwell of the Eighth Judicial rlrcult 6 Chief JnSinccl < Melville the hero of the Debug expedition Is giving special study to the use oc oil ns fuel for war esels An Appropriation was made at I the last session of Congress to enable the navy to conduct these tests to de terrn ne the feasibility of using oil as fuel In war vessels Thoae tests have slot bcn complete 1IU sufllclenl pro srcsa has been made to demonstrate that oil may be so used 1 The clement of danger however has not been en timely Overcome The danger comes from the percolation throughout t the shIp of combustible oil gases which thus far those Inalcilig the tests have not been able to overcome The imnorl 1111CO of these tests lies In the fact that iJrt Si1linwn that petroleum ran be used with success I and safely and that I Ifrn ° bJ tl0nabIe feature ° f heat l > too Intense r lire mon to bear can hQ ovcrcomtv the United Staton navy win lead every other naval establlnhme In the world In Us ability to Provide cheap powerful and email ly obtelnaijIe rz1eu7ll or dritig the 1C furnaces of men Ofwal DlnH to tint secial gun decks In vmrshlp timid a ullllzl1tOl1 or ery available hit of apace for th armament It has been found practically Impossible to IJ1oIr1c funnels such as mire uned on the nrorchantmcn Ex mcnts an being COIlduct l however rxperl to flRcertnln Ie the l gases cnn ljo Carried off irn through smaller tubes passing to differ eat ttri8 of the iirshli No fiuch teat from the tfin < ll > olt of severity anl thorouthnlau have ever liucn made he tore in a local machine hop and under conditIons alinulnllnff those J1 a warm vessel D m nSVninl forest wealth Of the PhilIp pities fs J likely to attract increasing at tention nou that the Rovormnntu oC the Ialn11tlH J l fs more substantial nml pernil neat The superintendence of the forest Domain In the archlpelauo has thug far been conducted by army omcers It is noW to be turned ov over to a trained ex pert In forestry Clifford Plnchot chief forcstcr of thu United States will leave early In September to take charge of the work in forestry in the islands A number of foresters have been already sent to the Philippines and others are to follow although the work Is further fur-ther advanced In sonic parts of the Philippines than In ome portions of Hie United States There Is much of scientific Interest to be learned in forestry for-estry In the Philippines and Mr Pin chot will remain In the Islands until the winter months directing the work which Is In progress there He will then return to this country a A series of patents have been Issued this week by the patent office which are believed by Government experts to be of great importance in the development develop-ment of wireless telegraphy The patents run to Prof Reginald JL Fea scndcn of Pennsylvania who has been working for a year or mote past In connection with the weather bureau and the signal office of the army on the problems Involved in wireless telegraphy teleg-raphy The experiment grounds are located lo-cated at Manteo N C where Gen Greeley has in person assisted in much of the work carried on under the direction di-rection of Pi of Fossenden It Is said by those competent to form a Judgment Judg-ment of the success attained by Prof Fcsficnden that he has perfected a complete com-plete system of communication and that a number of difficulties which have balked Marconi have been overcome over-come by him lie will now proceed to I install an elaborate working plant and I ins promise of financial support which will enable him to place his system at wont practically In the dispatch of public pub-lic Imsinoss a a a A significant indication of the agricultural agri-cultural progress of the West Is the growth of public opinion toward the fullest possible use of the streams for irrigation find especially toward the conservation of the winter and spring Hood waters which now run to waste A recent report received by the United States Geological Survey in Its study of tIme countrys 1 water resources from Mr A L Fellows resident hydrographer of he survey for the Stale of Colorado brows Interesting light upon the water situation now existing In that State The urgent necessity for storage of water ays Mr Fellows was nevermore never-more fuly demonstrated than by the great scarcity of water in Colorado during dur-ing the present Irrigation season The gauging of the streams by the Geolog cal Survey show lower stages than have ever been known before at the ame season and the fact that a win tem flow of considerable magnitude although though less than the normal might iavc been stored If reservoirs had been available and the further fact that a lumber of floods of short duration resultinG re-sultinG from violent ralnslormn were hell unutlllxcd have opened the eyes of irrigators I as never before to the neces Ity for storage Although the shortage has been most marked upon the eastern slope nC the Rookies the same is trxie to a less extent upon the western slope Whereas In the eastern BtrcamH there t has been practically no high stage vti tar being taken In thb Irrigation ditches before any high stnge could I be ob erved l In the streams on the western slopes the streams while reaching a stage of considerable runoff have nevertheless attained their maxim at ariy periods and have subsided cjulck Ij so that lowwater stages have come rom one to two months earlier than usual These fads taken In connection with the prevalent high charges for vater and the Increasing value of land susceptIble of Irrigation have I resulted In filingH being i made upon a rcat many reservoir altos throughout tho State The topographic survey of the cast era part of the State of Washington commenced by the United Stales Gee logical Survey will be continued this season under the general r direction of Mr R U Coo e Two parties 1 from the ieoloplcul Survey will be engaged in he work One of them will be under Mr 1 C Fletcher wllh Messrs J G Iefty and J U Bond assistants and vlll outfit at Republic The work of he party will be an extension west ward of that commenced last season In the vicinity of Republic the area to be a survey extending along tho intermi lonai boundary for about thirty miles and including tIme I valley of the Okano pan river and the region adjacent to Dsoyoos lulco The j second party l will he under Mr G T1 1 Hawkins 1 I and will outfit at t Spokane The J work assigned to this party Is I the extension of tIt xlsting rlangulation In the vicinity of Spokar southward > through Whitman Garfield and A sot In counties This tri inKulatlon will he followed as soon us practicable by a detailed topographic survey and the resulting mans will In i turn form a 1 basis for Ibo investIgation of the Important economic problems of this region If practicable this trlnnngn allon will he connected during the present field season with that brought lorthward from thc vicinity of the najccr City region by another party thus making a connection between the astronomic poailions determined nt Spokane Spo-kane and Baker City J II T |