Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-08-24
JUDGE BUCK
IDAHO PIONEER
Associate Of Old Times and Dis
penser OF Justice When
Guns stood for Order.


SPOKANE. Wash. Aug. 24.--Nor-
man Buck. who in 1885. while aaso-
cLate judge Of the supreme court o.
Idaho assigned TO the four northern
counties. reversed the finding 81
jury and decided that as the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mines, bonanza
lead-silver producers In the Occur
d'Alenes, were discovered by dom
key, its owners, Cooper and Peck,
were entitled to half interest In the
former and a quarter interest Ia the
latter claim. now valued at more
than s20.OO0.O0O. recently died 1t
his home In Spokane, The lmmedl-
ate cause was second stroke IL
paralysis on the morning OF Au-
gust 20.
Judge Buck came 10 the northwest
In the seventies ana was an active
participant In the principal events Of
the frontier days. remaining In the
harness until last spring. when be
suffered the first attack OF paralysis.
He lived through the stirring days
In the wilds OF northern Idaho when
II was necessary to have armed men
as bailiffs 10 maintain order In the
court, and realized his early predie-
ton that the Occur d'Alenes would
be developed into the richest lead
producing district In the world.
Born In Lancaster county, New
York. April Is, 1898, he moved with
his parents TO Batavia. ILL.,. when
boy, and afterward attended several
terms In a private seminary at War
rem. H. He next migrated 70 Wis
cousin. settling In sheboygan county
When young Buck had attained Ills
majority he entered Lawrence uni
versity at Appleton. graduating Ii
1859. The following year he spent
In Law school at Albany, ", Y. and
soon after he settled In Wlnona.
MINI.
When Lincoln issued the call for
volunteers he was mustered into
service at Fort Smelling at nrst lIeu-
tenant of the Seventh Minnesota In
1852. His FIRST service was under
General sibley, who conducted the
expedition against the Indians. who
= were committing depredations on the
frontier
The regiment crossed what Is n1w
North Dakota and reached Fort Alb
ererombie the day after Il had been
!. attacked and assisted In bringing in
= the bodies OF those who had fallen.
a Among these was that OF Edward
i Wright. a sehoolmate, whose parents
I had fed to the fort for protection.
He passed the winter on the plains
y and returned with sibley's expedition
|, TO 81. Paul, after which his regiment
: was ordered to St Louis doing gar.
z ison duty that winter.
Coming to the northwest he was
. appointed by President Hayes In
= 1878 as United States attorney for
IS Idaho. He found that great depre'
II dations had been committed By the
d timber thieves and he prosecuted Jay
i Gould and a son Of Brigham Young
+ The former case was settled out oil
= court by Gould paying $1,000 into
the Indian fund
Judge Buck was appointed asso.
late Judge OF the supreme court Of
7. Idaho In 1881 lie was assigned Il
the four northern counties and tool
81 up his residence At Lewiston. In tht
service he had some interesting ex
d periences. He first held court a
,e Pierce City. the old seat OF Shoshoni
r county. This vas changed to Eagle
e aud the Judge was taken up the rive
e In a canoe TO hold the first session 0
ID the new court.
G The discovery OF the mines Il
III northern Idaho shrlfted the seen
r. and Judge Buck established court 4
n. Murray, where United States Senate
be Hepburn. W. H. Glaggett. Fred Ca