Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-05-24
LEADER AT BAR
DIES IN HELENA
EDWIN WARREN TOOlE, BROTH
Err OF THE GOVERNOR,
PASSES AWAY.

Helena, May 20.-The funeral of the
late Edwin Warren Toole was held
from the residence of Gov. Joseph X.
Toole, brother of the deceased, yes
terday afternoon, and was one of the
most largely attended funerals held
in this city in some years.
The members of the bar association
attended in a body, and there was a
large attendance of officials and 9TH
er prominent citizens from various
parts of the state. Rev. arthur Kasey,
of the First Methodist Church, South,
officiated.
Mr.. Toole died shortly after o'clock
Wednesday morning, after a long i'll
ness, having been unconscious for SO
hours before the end
Mr.. Toole leaves three brothers and
two sisters. They are Gov. ]. X.
TOOle, Benjamin w. Tooie, of Billings;
C.. Bruce Toole, of Chouteau county;
Mrs. Ella Stout, of Helena and Mrs.
j. B. Atchison, of Denver. They are
all in Helena.
Edwin Warren Toole was born IN
Savannah, Mo-, March "a, 1899, the
ToOle. In the town of his nativity he
passed the days of his boyhood, and
was primarily educated in it's public
schools.
This education was supplemented
by a course at the Masonic college
IN Lexington, Mo-, and among his
classmates were United States Sena-
tor S. B. Elkins. of West Virginia,
former Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court w. Y. Pemberton and Jerry
Craven, a former Missouri congress.
man.
From Missouri Mr.. Toole came to
Montana. in 1868, and had resided
continuously in Helena since, where
he had achieved a brilliant reputation
as one of the foremost and strongest
attorneys before the Montana courts
he having been connected with some
OF the most prominent lawsuits in
the history of the state and nearly
all with pronounced success. Among
these were the Davis will case, the
st. Louis Mining company against
the Montana company, limited, involv
ing an extension of the noted Drum
Lummon mine at Marysville, and the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
against r. p. Barden ct al.
Upon the election of Joseph K
Toole as governor of Montana, the
firm of Toole, Bach & Toole was term.
mated, E. Warren Toole and former
Justice Thomas C. Bach continuing
under the name of Toole & Bach.
The business of the firm has been
confined exclusively to cases in the
superior courts of the state, United
States supreme and circuit courts and
circuit court of appeals. Among 9th
ers they were retained in the great
mining litigation arising in Butte be
tween the Amalgamated company ant
F. Augustus Heinze, the Helena Wa
terwOrks company cases and the Ba
sin & Bay State-Glass Brothers case
While Mr.. Toole had stood among
the foremost lawyers of the state, he
had by no means been neglectful 81
other interests. He was largely in
terested in mines and mining, being
heavy stakeholder in several pro
ductive companies. In the real estate
of Helena and other Montana cities
gree.
Politically Mr.. Toole was ever in
active sympathy with the principles
of the Democratic party. With one
exception, he declined at all times
nomination for office. Once early in
the history of the territory he receiv
ed the nomination of congressman
but was later defeated at the polls
because of a detection in his Owr
party engendered it is said because
of the defeat of his opponent for the
party nomination.
From that time he had refused al
political honors, and similarly abstain