The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
Lewis and Clarke and Silver Bow
Each Get Another District
Judge.
Appointments Made to tho MedA-
cal, Stock and Arbitration
Boards.
h Appointess Were Highly RecOm-
m~ended-The Senate Endorses tho
Governors Action.

81 years Olu. l11R Ihtnef WAS Il pFOmlneub
lawyer in Mississippi and an intimate friend
and admirer OF Justice Lamar, of the Su-
preme court of the United States. Judge
Buck first graduated from Hopkins Gram
mar school, being i've classes ahead of his
colleague, Judge Hunt. He went to Yale
college and was also there two classes ahead
Of his associate. In 1876 Judge Buck grad
uated at Yale with honors and vent to st.
Louis, whore he was u pupil at the celebrat-
ed law school of that city and received in
struction from Gen. Noble, now secretary
of the interior. In 1878 he Joined Judge
Hunt in Dakota. From there they
came to Montana in the tall OF
1879. locating at Fort Benton and
forming the law partnership Of Buck d
Hunt. They remained continuously in
partnership until Judge Hunt was elected
district court judge for Lewis and Clarke
county and % his seat upon the admis-
sion OF the state.
In 1884 Judge Buck was elected a member
county, and served on the judiciary COM
mittee of that body with Judge Stephen De
Wolf. of Silver Bow county. The new
judge was the first city attorney of Fort
Benton. and held that office continuously
until his removal to Helena in 1887. In
Vss AooOp ~ AhlpO WAVA ubkO
Thomas G. Bach, formerly Of the territorial
supreme bench. Judge Buck is a man
we'll trained and skilled in the law
and exceedingly we'll fitted by tenn
permanent for a judicial position, as
is best evidenced by the very complimenta-
the bar OF Helena for the position to which
the governor has appointed him. Judge
Buck will take the oath of Office tomorrow
morning in the district court before Judge
Hunt. He will preside in The court imme~
diately at the conclusion of the trial of
jackson Va. Coburn which will be taken up
at two p. IN. Monday.
The appointes for the Silver Bow district
court, William Y. Pemberton. is one of the
best known of the pioneers of Montana.
He came to the then territory in 1868, form
ing a law partnership with E.. Warren
Toole. He was born at Nashville. Tonnes
see, June /, 1912, received his early educa-
ton at the Masonic college, Missouri, and
also attended the Lebanon Law school of
Cumberland university, graduating in 1861,
and commenced the practice of the law the
same year.
The law firm of Toole 81 Pemberton re-
moved to Helena in 1865. when Col. A. NJ.
Voolfolk. formerly editor of HE INDEpEND.
ENT, became a member of the firm
and remained in the partnership
until 1868. During this time Mr..
Pemberton removed to Sedalia, Mo-, where
he too an active interest in politics and
came within one vote of receiving the NOM
ination on the democratic ticket to repre-
sent that district in congress. He returned
to Helena in 1880, going to Butte two years
later, where he has since remained. The
voters of Silver Bow county chose him in the
fall of 1882 for the prosecuting attorney of
that district. In the following year he was
elected a member of the territorial consti-
tutional convention which was held in Jan
uary, 1884, and of which body Governor
Ioole was also q prominent member. Mr..
Pemberton married in this city in 1866,
Miss Clara NJ, daughter of J. G. Hutchin-
times in Alder Rulch, when the v%igilantes
broke the reign of lawlessnes, Mr.. Pember-
ton is thoroughly familiar. He was one of
the amanuensis at the famous trial of
George Ives, the road agent. and gives a
vivid account of the events Of those days.
Both appointments are pronounced to be
excellent and reflect credit upon the good
Judgment of the governor. These as we'll
as the other names sent to the senate were
unanimously confirmed in open session.
For stock commissions of Silver Bow a
better man than Hon. Granville Stuart
lately made Butte his residence, having of
late years resided in Fergus county, where
his extensive stock interests demanded
most of his time. No citizen of Montana
is more favorably known than Mr.. Stuart.
Beside having been formerly a member of
also served in the legislative halls of Mon.
tana with much ability. Satisfaction is
also expressed over the other appointments. |
as stock commissioners.
Col. James Sullivan, one of the an.
pointees to the state board of arbitration
ru.&rn 4 4vpsn n~Q 6uop1n .~-y,~Au s. ~ |
known in Montana. His first entrance in
public life was q few years ago when he de.
feated Hon. r.. H. Kleinschmidt in a race
for the mayoralty of Helena. Under the
administration Of Ex-Governor Hauser he
made an enviable reputation as territorial
substantial citizens and will undoubtedly
gain for himself additional honors in his
new Office.
The new member of the board for Silver
Bow county, Thomas KllRallon, is a miner
by occupation, and ENJOYS a wide acquaint-
ance with his fellow workmen and whose
interests he has thoroughly studied. Mr..
Kilgallon is q middle-aged man and n
prominent member Of the Butte Miners
union.
The re~appointment of DIR. Charles +.
Mussigbroad to the board for Deer Lodge
county speaks for itself. DIR. M~ussigbroad
IS peculiarly fitted by temperament to un-
dertake ths labors of the arbitration board,
his well-known qualities no doubt having
had much to do with his reappointment.
On the medical board DR.. j. B. Atchison,
of this city, and a leading physician of
ability has been selected to again preside
as its president. he having served in that
capacity ever since the creation of the board
by the last territorial Legislature. DIR. j. Il.
Newman. of Cascade county, ia u leading
physician in northern Montana. He was
for several years army surgeon at Fort
Shaw. Silver Bow also has a good ap-
pointee on the board in the person of DIR.
I. J. Murray, who stands high in his pro-
fession in Butte.
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