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Show United Statea in the Alaskan boundary caBe before the arbitration tribunal In London In 1903. He was an assistant attorney general of the United States during Cleveland's administration, and has been general counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad company for some years, spending most of his time in Chicago, where the general offices of tho company are located. Mr. Dickinson Dick-inson is 68 years old, having been born in Columbus, Mississippi. In 1861. He Is a graduate of the University of Nashville, from which, school he has a degree as Master of Arts, and he stud-led stud-led law at Columbia university, at tho University of Leipzig, and In Paris. He is president of the American Ameri-can Bar association, and belongs to the Chicago club, the Onwentsia and the Iroquois clubs, all of Chicago. Mr. Dickinson is the owner ef the famous Belle Meade stock farm In Nashville. TWO CABINET OFFICERS. Two of the new men in President Taft's cabinet are Richard A, Ballln-ger Ballln-ger and Jacob M. Dickinson. Of these two statesmen, their biographers say: Four states may claim a proprietary Interest In Richard A. Balllnger. the new secretary of the Interior. He is a native of Iowa, having been born In Boonsboro In 1859; after practicing law in Illinois for a hlle he removed to Alabama, and In 1899 he became a resident of Port Townsend in Washington Wash-ington state. The next year he was appointed United States commissioner at Port Townsend and later "was elected elect-ed Judge of tho superior court of Jefferson Jef-ferson county. Five years ago Mr. Ballinger was elected mayor of Seattle, Seat-tle, and when his term aa mayor expired ex-pired President Roosevelt appointed him commissioner of the general land office. As a practitioner at the bar, Mr. Bollinger made a specialty of the admiralty ad-miralty and maritime law, and his position pos-ition as commissioner of the general gener-al land office gave him a wide knowledge knowl-edge of the land laws and other Important Im-portant problems which will fall under un-der his Jurisdiction aa secretary of the Interior. Mr. Balllngcr's father studied law In the offlce of Abraham Lincoln, and his ancestors on both sides participated participat-ed in the war of the revolution and tho war of 1812. He was prepared for college in the public schools and Is a graduate of Williams college, class of '81. Ho Is the author of "Balllnger on Community Property" and of "Bal-llnger's "Bal-llnger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington." Mr. J3alllnger Is a Republican state committeeman for the state of Washington, and waa a member of tho advisory committee during the last campaign. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, the new secretary of war, is the southern member of President Taft's cabinet. A Mlssisslpplan by birth, he Is a citizen citi-zen of Tenneasee and as a Cleveland Democrat supported Mr. Taft for the presidency. Probably his mot notable public Bervlce was as counsel for tho |