The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-14
Special Dispatch to the Standard.


Helena, Dec. 13.-The history of Mon
tana does not relate many, if any, oc-
currences that can be classed with the
memorial services held in the large
district court chamber to-day in honor
of the late Associate Justice Horace II.
Buck, Members of the, chosen profess
Sion of the deceased, men with whom he
was intimately acquainted in profess
sional and private life, judges on the
bench and his two associates in the
supreme court met to pass resolutions
in keeping with the life and position of
the dead and to hear eulogieS made
There was a large attendance of at
torneys, several from other portions of
the state and not a few from other
walks of life. An excellent painting
of the deceased occupied a prominent
position on the bench.
The exercises commenced a few min
utes past 10 o'clock. Chief Justice Penn
berton and Associate Justice Hunt en-
tered by a side door. This was a sig
nal for all to rise and remain stand
ing until the justices had been seated.
Court was opened in the usual manner,
after which the chief justice announced
that the court had decided to deny the
motion for a rehearing in the case of
Gelsthorpe against Furnell, the inherit
ance tax case. He said that one of
the last official acts of the deceased
had been to consider this motion with
the other members of the court and he
had decided with them that when the
case had been decided it had received
a great amount of study and thought
and that the motion for another hearing
should not be granted The chief JUS
tice said that court had met for the
purpose of taking official action upon
the death of the associate justice in the
form Of resolutions and eulogies, and
was now ready to hear from the COM
mittee that had been appointed to draft
the resolutions.
The Resolu; sas.
Ex-Governor Il. p. Carpenter ad-
dressed the court As chairman of the
committee he had some resolutions
which he would ask the attorney gem
eral, a member of the committee, to
read. The attorney general read as
follows:
To the Supreme Court: The under
signed, your committee of members OF
the bar of Montana appointed TO draft
and submit to this court resolutions re-
garding the Honorable Horace IL. Buck
who lately, while an associate justice,
of this court met his death through
fatal accident, respectfully report the
resolutions which are hereto appended
and ask that they be approved by the
court and placed upon its permanent
records. Very respectfully submitted,
b. p. CARPENTER,
&. Il. NOLAN,
j. X. TOOLE.
VIM. II. De. WITT,
H. G. M'INTIRE,
W. 4. PIGOTT.
Resolved. That the members of the
bar OF the state of Montana, lamenting
the death of the Honorable Horace Il.
Buck and desiring To give permanent
expression to their estimate of his life,
character and public services, present
this memorial for preservation in the
records of the supreme court.
Horace Il. Buck. late an associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of Montana,
was born in Yazoo county. Mississippi.
on the nth day of September, 1853 His
parents We're Hon. Charles l.. and
Maria I. Buck. His father was one of
the most eminent jurists and advocates
of his state, and his mother is an
authoress of high repute. Judge Buck
was graduated from Yale college in the
class of 1876. taking high rank in schol-
arship, and having been awarded the
Townsend premium Tor one OF the six
best orationS delivered by his class.
After pursuing course Of law in the
st. Louis law school, ana having also
been d student in the office Of Messrs.
Noble & Orrisk. a prominent law firm
in St. Louis, he was admitted 10 the bar
in 1873. By diiigent application he had
acquired a profound knowledge Of the
principles of law before entering upon
its practice. In 1873. in partnership with
William H Hunt this personal friend
from youth and now justice of the
Montana supreme courtt, lie COM
menced the practice of his profession