cial circuit, succeeding Judge Schofield, deceased. Mr. Dodge was born in April, 1847, and is sixty-five years old. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. His wide experience as an admiralty lawyer led to his being looked upon as the natural candidate for the vacancy left on the bench of the district court at the time of Judge Lowell's promotion from that branch to the first judicial circuit in 1905. At the fourteenth annual meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association, held at Morehead City, N. C., early in July, the report of the committee on reform of procedure was adopted without amendment and the commit tee were given a vote of thanks. Four bills were approved for submission to the legislature, as follows: (1) to divide the state into new judicial circuits and districts, with an increase of judges from sixteen to twenty-four; (2) to fix the salaries of solicitors of the state; (3) to change the jury system; and (4) to expedite trials. A report on the Torrens system was also adopted. The following officers were elected: Hon. James S. Manning of Durham, president; Thomas W. Davis, secretarytreasurer; W. M. Bond, R. C. Dunn, C. R. Thomas, Henry A. Gillman, N. J. Rouse, W. S. O. B. Robinson, W. P. Bynum, Jr., J. B. Clark, Union L. Spence, Walter Murphy, S. Porter Graves, A. L. Quickel, W. B. Council, J. W. Pless, Thomas Settle, F. S. Johnson, vice-presidents. Obituary
Arden, Henry, author of Banning and Arden's Patent Reports, an authority
in patent law, of whom it was said, in 1892, that he was one of the eight greatest lawyers in New York, died at Los Angeles July 1. He was a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He not only had a wide knowledge of inter national law, but was an authority on chemistry, metallurgy, and electricity. Butler, Hugh, a prominent lawyer of Colorado, died June 27. He had served as county attorney, and senator under the territorial regime. He had also, at one time, filled the chair of common law and code pleadings in the Colorado State University law school. He was formerly a law partner of Henry M. Teller, and was an expert on mining law, but had not been active in his profession for the past ten years. Haralson, Jonathan, for sixteen years Associate Justice of the Alabama Su preme Court, died July 11. He retired to private life several years ago. Herring, William, formerly an assis tant district attorney of New York and member of the Legislature, died at his home in Tucson, Ariz., July 10, at the age of 79. In the legislature he introduced the first New York city consolidation bill. He moved to Ari zona in 1880, where he became Chan cellor of the University of Arizona and later Attorney-General of the state. Marsh, Judge James K., a prominent southern Indiana lawyer, died July 6. He had been prosecuting attorney, representative to the legislature, and state circuit judge. Oliver, Judge Addison, a pioneer and prominent philanthropist of Iowa, and formerly a Congressman for four years, died July 7 at his home in Onawa, la.
