The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-09
M. G. Brown, New Judge of Alas
ka, Arrives in the City.
TO BE OINED BY LOCAL BAR.
Long and Honorable Career of the
Man who VIII Preside over Alas
ka's Courts-Expects TO Hold Conrt
mt Nome Next AuRust-Declares He
VIII Enforce the Law and Rem
der Life and Property Secure.

Melville c. Brown. of Wyoming, ap
pointed United States Judge for the dis
trict of Alaska to succeed Judge Charles
s. Johnson, has arrived in the city on his
way TO Alaska, and is stopping at the
Hotel Butler. He received calls from
number of Seattle attorneys yesterday
and accepted an invitation extended by
s. H. Piles to meet the Seattle bar at din
ner at the Rainier Club this evening. He
will sail for Alaska tomorrow on the
steamship Cottage City and proceed at
once TO Sitka.
Judge Brown is in the autumn but not
in the winter of life. His hair is slightly
gray. ne wears beard trimmed TO point
and has a dignified and pleasant address.
The Judge began bt/iness almost as soon
as he arrived in the city. though still
thousand miles from the Alaska capital.
An attorney presented for his considera-
ton an application for an Injunction,
which the Judge considered as yet conf
Dental Post-lntelligencer reporter
found him with copy Of the new Alaska
code open on his table. He said
Il shall go to Sitka, for that is yet the
capital. How long | will remain there l
cannot say; 1t depends on the condition OF
the calendar and the general situation in
respect to litigation. l can say that shall
do my best for the people of Alaska in en-
forcing the law, protecting life and prop
erty. and in all other ways that my posi-
ton warrants. / want to meet the clerk
OF the court, and it is possible may go to
Juneau at once.
1T is my intention" continued the
Judge, Ito reside at juneau. particularly
IL the Alaska bill now pending in congress
should be passed. II It does not pass ex-
pect to make a trip 10 Nome to hold court
there during the latter part of July or
early in August. revenue cutter will
probably take me TO Nome from Sitka, or
l might come down to Seattle and take
steamer for Nome Alaska, you know, Is
a n At
this time / cannot say that | VIII make
trip down the Yukon. / do not like the
idea OF being frozen in there all winter"
Judge Brown has been in the active
practice of law thirty-two years. He said
that the mining possibilities of Alaska
were a consideration In influencing him TO
accept the judgeship.
Melville c. Brown was born in Augusta.
Me-, In 1871. When a boy of IS years he
went West and on account OF his health
settled in California. He returned to the
East, but again came West, settled in
Wyoming and has lived there thirty years.
Judge Brown represented the government
as assistant to the attorney general of the
United States in protecting the interests
OF the United States during the time that
the Union Pacific railroad was In the
hands of receivers. He was Judge OF the
district court OF the territory OF Wyo-
ming, declined places on the supreme
bench of Wyoming, was four years United
States attorney of Wyoming, member OF
the state legislature. prosecuting attorney
and president of the Wyoming constitu-
tional convention.
Judge Brown married Miss Mamie w.
Fillmore. and they still live In the house
in Laramie in which they were married
twenty-six years ago Her father, Luther
Fillmore, was superintendent of the Union
Pacific railroad, and later became con-
nected with tho Southern Pacific. j. A.
Fillmore general superintendent Of the
Southern Pacific system, is her uncle. Mr..
and Mrs. Brown have three daughters.
Mrs. Brown and daughters expect to Join
MIR. Brown in Alaska next July. Mrs.
Brown is distinguished in phiianthropc
work, and is one OF the most widely es-
teemed women in Wyoming. Before he
left home for Alaska Judge Brown was
given a dinner by the Cheyenne club.
Judge Carey. who formerly represented
the state N the United States senate, in
speaking of Judge Browns departure,
stated that II would. be a great loss to the
state, but that the loss of Mrs. Brown
would be a thousand times greater.