| Show JUDGE K me LANDIS r CAREER OF MAIST MAN WHO BROUGHT rockefeller TO COURT has been noted for his De tion throughout his career of D s on experience as secre tary to gresham chicago men alen who have followed the career of judge kenesaw moun tain landis who issued the which brought john D rocke feller and other high standard oil officials into his court in chicago re brently are not surprised at the de termination he has shown to get the rock bottom facts in connection with the case of the standard oil company at of indiana judge landis has been a forceful character wherever he has been placed A thorough american well grounded in the law indefatigable not to be swe swerved arved from a purpose once fixed such is the judge who told john S miller an attorney of immunity bith bath fame that he must produce tain evidence in order that judge lan dis might know what sums would con statute just and equitable fines in the case lii the standard oil corn pany of indiana had been found guilty by a jury in a federal court directness and thoroughness won him the esteem of the foreign diplo mats at washington and of the tile amer lean can statesmen and politicians as well when hen he served as private secretary secie tary to walter Q gresham secretary of state in the cabinet of president cleveland it Is related that upon one occa slon mr air landis acting for mr gresham clashed with the wishes of mr air cleveland and the president sought his removal but so attached trad secretary gresham become to the young man that he stood up loyally for his subordinate and when mr cleveland found that to tal e landis calp he would have to take gresham 8 ilso he acquiesced in the situation later landis and the president be ame strongly attached to each other A man of striking features Is judge landis whose tangled iron gray har hair gives him the appearance of a man much older for the judge Is not quite 11 he was born in millville 0 no vember 20 1866 and is the sixth child of dr abraham H landis who during the civil war was a surgeon in the tient fifth ohio regiment it is to the fact that his father fallier was badly wounded at the battle of kenesaw mountain that the j idge owes his peculiar baptismal names at the age of seven he lie went with his parents to logansport Logan sport ind where he attended public school As a boy he carried papers then he became a reporter on the logansport Logan sport journal he studied stenography and from 1883 to 1886 was official stenographer of the circuit court ot of lake aunt ind coming to chicago he entered the union college of law from which r he waa was graduated in 1890 he lie was ad pitted bar ind at the time when secretary gresham chose him for his private secretary and confidant he wag was one of the instructors in the northwestern university law school U hile in N washington ashington landis gained most valuable knowledge of men and things which proved helpful in his later years he lie came to know mr air gresham so well that he divined in the famous kentuckians Kentuck lan s every wish nish and landis often assumed great responsibilities in the absence ot of alt id VZ 7 R au byg 4 0 aa 5 14 V II 11 a k i x ot i KENESAW M LANDIS federal judge who hailed rockefeller into court his superior invariably to be backed up in what he did by the secretary of 0 state who had implicit confidence in him thlin he ile relieved his chief of as much of 0 the burden of the office as possible and he came to be I 1 in and out of the department as having gresh am a sanction for all matters in which he assumed authority thoroughness and directness characterized his every act and being gifted with act and fine judgment he knew as well ell what matters to let alone as what to take up he made friends with all who had business with the department and es specially pec lally ally was well mell liked by many mem bers of the diplomatic corps on first arrival arrivi he 1 l social side of diplomatic life but before he left he was wag well broken in to the dress coat and reception habit |
