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Show j KEARNS REWARDS FRIENDS. Fat Federal Jobs For Two of His Staunch Supporters. Washington, April 22. President Roosevelt today recommended the appointment by ' t lie " state ' department de-partment of William G. Van Home of Salt Lake City as judge of the court of first instance of Egypt. The court is located at Cairo and is similar to a j consular court. ' The salary is $7,00o per annum and! the tenure of office is during good be- ! havior. The nomination goes from the j state department to the khedive of I Epypt for his approval. J The appointee, it is stated, was an original Kearns man in the legislative election which, resulted in Senator ; Korans election. j President Roosevelt today sent to the senate the nomination of Joseph Lipp-man Lipp-man as United States attorney for Ptah, to take effect upon the termination termina-tion of the term of Attorney Whitte-rnore. Whitte-rnore. ' Senator Kearns, who secured Lipp-man's Lipp-man's appointment, was not opposed to the reappointment of Whittemore, but . at the same time believed his reap-; reap-; pointment would be unwise, in view of his close connection with the San Pedro, Pe-dro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railway as its attorney. He is friendly to Whittemore, but was a strong endorser of Lippman for the United States attorneyship, at-torneyship, and is exceedingly gratified that the appointment was made. He believes Lippman will prove an efficient Hnd satisfactory officer of the government. govern-ment. William G. Van Home was the first and original member Of the legislature who . declared himself for Thomas Kearns for senator. Ever since Mr. Kearns was elected senator the friends of Mr. Van Horne have been expecting that he would pluck the most luscious plum from the tree of federal-patron- Iage, ana yesterdays announcement was no disappointment to them. The recipient of these honors has been , in the f estern part of the state the past few days on mining business, in which he has been principally engaged the past few years, and Iri consequence he was not present yesterday to re- j ceive the congratulations of numerous friends. For a score of years Jlr. Van Horne has been a familiar figure in Salt Lake City. Originally he came from Louisinana, and for a time he was .1 resident of Fort Douglas, w here hio father was. stationed w ith the regiment as chaplain. After preparing himself for the practice of law he entered into partnership with Judge 11. N. Baskin, and about ten years :'.go. when Judge Baskin was .mayor of this city, he served as assistant to City Attorney Hoge. ,. ., Mr. Van Horne was a prominent figure fig-ure in the constitutional convention and did much to shape the organic law of the state.-?. In this convention Mr. Kearns was also a member. Next Mr. Van Horne appeared as a member of the legislature which elected Mr. Kearns senator. To those who recalled that Joseph Lippman played probably the most conspicuous part 'as manager of Sena-torKearns Sena-torKearns campaign before the-legis-lature, it-va no surprise, that -he secured se-cured the- coveted ositioiv of .United States district attorney for Utah, succeeding suc-ceeding C. O. Whittemore, whose commission com-mission expires on June X. To the office is attached a yearly salary of $4,000. "When Mr: Lippman was apprised yesterday of his appointment he at first j feigned surprise, but later admitted that he rather expected it. lie frankly 1 admitted that he owed his appointment to Senator Kearns. but he declared that he did not make a formal 'application for the place and did not even go to the trouble of securing any endorsements. endorse-ments. Mr. Lippman is well known as the. junior member of the law firm of Powers. Pow-ers. Straup & Lippman. He was born forty-four years ago at Mobile, Ala., and at the age of 11 years moved to Philadelphia, where he attended school, graduating from the . high school in ! ISTa. For a time he "was (n the law cilice of HI i K. Price and J. Sergeant Price and later entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the law department of that institution in 1S70 with the degree of LL. P. After making a tour of Europe Mr. Lippman returned to Philadelphia and then went to Chicago, where he engaged for u time in the law otlice of Judge Wilson. Wil-son. While there he was admitted to practice in tne supreme court ot tne state of Illinois. Longing for the west, Mr. Lippman pushed on to Colorado and while there secured admission to the bar of that state. Coming to Utah in 1SS2 -he established es-tablished the Chronicle in November of that year. This w-as the first evening even-ing Gentile newspaper to' be' published in this state. From 1SS4 till 1SS9 he was employed on the staff of the Tribune Trib-une in various positions and, following this he was for two years territorial librarian and statistician. In 1S92 he was compiler of the revised ordinances of Salt Lake City. For two years ending end-ing in bS!to he was county recorder of! Salt 1,'ike county, and since the early ! part of INC.. he has been with the law j firm of Powers, Straup & Lippman. |