Show JUDGE SAMUEL NYS I 1 I 1 1 1 1 Y A 11 0 11 1 1 11 11 t V 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 Z ki 5 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 N 1 1 I 1 W e R I 1 t I 1 I 1 f I 1 I 1 I 1 0 11 n 4 y 1111 1 1 I II 11 I 1 X 4 11 0 R I 1 5 11 84 I 1 f I 1 t I 1 1 1 1 I 1 4 1111 11 4 11 VV tl I 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 V 1 11 1 0 0 1 X C 1 I i 11 0 I 1 I 1 1 I el 1 I 1 4 ia I 1 wa fa f 4 I 1 oklahoma Is the youngest state in the union hence it deedna scrims appropriate enough that the presiding justice of its supreme court should be the youngest chief justice in the history of the united states this cuvi juvi jurist st is ia tile hon samuel hays who was born in 1875 and who aral therefore just 32 years of age on the day when he was elected to the supreme court of oklahoma I 1 mr hays Is a native of Arkan arkansas zas mt but when very ery v young his family removed to texas lexas where he grow up amid fields of sugar cane corn and cotton in which he worked industriously so as to save sufficient money for his 1116 education ducat fon i at the ithe university of virginia upon graduating from that university he began legal practice in the he indian territory out ot of which was carved the territory and later the state ot oklahoma lie he took an active part in the formation of the 1 ion bringing to bear upon its problems an alert and original mind which was ne verthal less sane in resisting wild and impracticable theories advanced by members who had bad never even read the federal constitution he so impressed the people as to win for himself an election to his present office by a majority of votes although ho he was opposed by the hon hen F B R gillett a justice of the local united states court and conice conceded dod to be both an able lawyer awyer and an upright judge thus it Is that mr hays holds the chief judicial position in his hak state at an age so youthful as ae would render him ineligible for election to the presidency and only two years abo above aboe e the age required of a genitor of the united states among well known jurists in n our history the only one who at bained so high an office so very early was john jay who became bame chief justice of the abate of now new york in 1777 jay wag made chief in the same year that now new york ceased to be a colony of the crown arid and became a state just as oklahoma has now ceased to be a territory and has acquired statehood I 1 COMMITTED SUICIDE helena mont feb ian A special to to the independent from san diego cal says irving H broo ahouse kh ouse 35 years old formerly of Kall spell poll mont committed suicide yesterday at san bernardine cal as the result of remorse over a crime committed ten years ago after shooting himself in the abdomen he confessed to the chief of police that he and a partner had burned their kalispell Kal packing house to secure the insurance brookhouse was a member of a prominent exit massachusetts family and left a letter to his ls father at athol mass requesting the latter to partly reimburse an insurance mace company for tho wrong |