Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-12
ACTION 0eTHE BAR.
Resolutions of Respect for the Late Judge
Scanikar.


The committee appointed at a recent
meeting of the Sacramento Bar to draft reso-
lutions of respect to the memory of the late
Judge Scaniker, submitted the following
yesterday in Department One of the Su-
perior Court. and they were ordered spread
upon the minutes:
Res0ired, That we the members Of the Sacra-
mento Bar, in common with the many other
friends and acquaintance of the late stephen
p. Scaniker, do sincerely mourn his desth
The deceased had led career of more than or
binary. character. Leaving laborers life in
the Old Dominion, Eve years of college study
enabled him to carfy off the honors of his class
and Marion College his alma mater offered him
the chair of mathematics. The allurements of
the law prevented It's acceptance. While yet
for whom he never lost a loving recolIec-
ton, war with Mexico was declared
He raised Il company and offered its services
TO the nearess command but the regiment was
full. He resigned the position of CAPTAIN of q
company which was forced 10 stay at home tenn
porarily. and enlisted in the ranks as a private
under colonel Doniphan. and made with him
the famous journey of the Dead" over the
tornado del Moerto.
On his return he began the practice of the
law, remained short time in Texas and Louisi-
law which ever alter formed the basis of his
judgments. and made him a Remain soldier in
the Roman law.
But California was peculiarly his home, where
he came in S5l- His restless spirit owed allie
glance to No place for long period of time
impelled By his own cratic genius he drifteG
about at the beck of his whims-ten wears in
stanislaus, two years in stockton, six in Idaho,
then various periods at san Francisco, Salt Lake
Virginia City, Bodie and elsewhere until SIX
years ago, when the sun of his life BEGAN to
lower to the western horizon, he came 20 our
city.
In all his wanderings, wherever he went his
vigorous intellect, his broad learning antIstronp
character challenged the admiration of All and
in one of less modest and retiring disposition
would have secured him almost any place. IN the
gift of men.
He was educated in the old school and Knew
principles rather than cases, and with patiant
labor went to the bottom of every case in which
he was called TO act.
His associations were strikingly Indicative of
his bent of mind. While courteous and kints to
all, he naturally sought minds of his own
in such men as Hugh ]. Murray, BENJAMIN Lock-
wood and j. A. McDougal-men who found
equal pleasure in his society
He was signally successful in his cases, partly
owing to his skill as pieader and his accurate
legal knowledge, and partly because he was
ever impelled by high notions of professional
ethics which caused him to decline to act in,
those cases which were without true merit
As a lawyer he was true to his profession and
in it. He knew litrle of the value of
money, and his generous heart and ready hand
his refusal OF cases that were without the pale
OF his code of professional etnics and the roam
ing spirit that alone would have dissipated a
fortune, left him in the sunset of life as he was
IN It's beginning empty-handed and with for
tune but mirage.
Many of us have known him for half life
time, and would bear glad testimony of high
and his deserving honorable fame
amongus.
To his bereaved wife and daughters we extend
Dnr earnest and heartfelt sympathy.
talbot II. WALLIS, Chairman
MATT. +. JOHNSON ]
HENRY L. BUCKLEY,
Committee