The Idaho recorder., 1921-11-18
JUDGE QUARLES,
FOREMOST SALMON
CITIZEN, CALLED
SUDDEN PNEUMONIA ATTACK
ENDS NOTABLE LIFE OF FOR
MER JUDGE AND LAWYER.

vember Is, from an attack If pneumo-
MIA. For more than twentyfour
hours he had remained unconscious.
Attending physicians, who were call
ed Sunday, found both his lungs in
volved. Heart action was impaired
from the first. AS soon as the serious
nature of his illness became known
there were constant inquiries about
lis condition, attesting the wide
spread alarm and the general anxiety
in the community lest the stricken
man be called from his place in pub
lie life which no other man now
here can hope to fill.
Judge Quarles is survived by his
wife and a son and three daughters,
the wife being the only member of
his immediate household. Ralph P.
Quarles, Jr., of Salmon, is the only
son and the daughters are Mrs. Dixie
Ancrum, wife of Col. Calhoun An
crum stationed in U. S. army service
near Charleston, S. Co.; Mrs. Helen
Caycomb, wife of George Claycomb
of Nampa, Idaho, and Mrs. Dorothy
. Hall, wife of Probate Judge Francis
p. Hall.
Over Exertion the Cause.
On Thursday before the summons
came to Judge Quarles he visited with
his son mining property which is
involved in litigation now in the hands
! of the firm. On that occasion he
walked good portion of the distance
up hill after using the Quarles car as
far as the road was passable. He
felt no ill effects from the eXertion,
remarking to his son afterwards that
he hadn't felt better in twenty years.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday he
was kept indoors from what was
considered a slight cold and even on
Monday he was able to be out of bed,
expecting to go away on professional
business to Blackfoot on the day fol-
lowing. Before the dawn of the next
day, however, he became alarmingly
i'll from a pronounced case of pneumo-
MIA involving both lungs, the symp-
toms being those attending the
scourgc in the flu epidemic. Mrs.
Quares first called her son Ralph who
summoned DR.. Hamer and DR.. Wright.
At no time during the hours of
watching at the bedside was there one
favorable change. The announcement
of the death came as shock through
out the city.
The funeral took place from the
Methodist church yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock Judge Quarles was a
member and regular worshipper at
this church. Business places were
closed during the afternoon. The
church was filed with sincere friends
and mourners. In his touching adj
dress the Rev. Mr.. Beatty said he felt
more like occupying the place of one
Of the sorrowing gathering than his
station as the speaker. Mrs. Hirsch-
+ berger was at the organ as the choir
of Vaughn Clark, T. H. Burbridge,
Mrs. Raymond Preston and Mrs. ]. A.
Herndon sang Safe in the Arms of
Jesus, and Nearer, My God, to Thee.
Claude Coyle played violin selection
with Miss Marcia Whitwell as ac-
companist. The Odd Fellows had
charge of the services.
The bereaved wife was before mar
riage Miss Ida May Strow. The cou-
pie began life together in the old
kentucky home, where Judge Quarles
was born June 10, 1855. Coming to
Salmon in 1889 the family remained
here till 1896 when Judge Quarles
was elevated to the bench of the Su-
pFeme court of the state of Idaho, two
years having been given as chief jus
tice of the same court. At the con-
clusion of his service in this court he
was appointed to the supreme bench
of the Hawaiian islands, from which
he resigned to come back to Salmon
in 1918, the great natural beauty of
the mountains hereabout and the eli
matte conditions and old friendships
aTording the attractions. From the
first after his return here he was
called into nearly all the important
law cases brought in this court, first
rs a partner with A. c. Cherry, who
moved away two years ago, then with
Judge Padgham and this year form
inc partnership with his son. Per-
haps the most important suit ever
undertaken by Judge Quarles while
residing in Salmon was one in which
he successfully defended the rights
Of hundreds Of land owners of Lemhi
valley who were drawn into the ten
tacles of the law against their will
in the matter of decreeing water
rights. 1t seemed unavoidable that
everybody in the valley would have an
expensive law suit on his hands until
Judge Quarles took the case to the
Supreme court for remedy. He was
employed with Judge Padgham in the
noted election contest from this coun-
I II nov pending in the Supreme court
Ideal Lawyer.
In the law books Of the state his
opiniors while member of the
states highest judicial tribunal ap-
pear on many pages and are frequent
IS quoted As determining precedents
n jurisprudence. He was forceful
and learned in the law It was the
r-.le Of his practice that the law
should he invoked only to secure
r'rhts or remedy wrongs and nobody
ever knew him 70 apply it unworthily.
The old Quarles home was at Pa
5ucah, Kentucky, where the family Of