THIRD DAY.

SEATTLE, July 12, 1900.

Association called to order at 10 A. M.
President Donworth in the chair.

Judge Jacobs, Chairman of Committee on Obituaries, submitted the following report:

Mr. President: Your committee has just learned of the death of the Honorable Richard B. Blake of Spokane, and that the Bar Association of Spokane County has sent to this Association the resolutions adopted by the said Bar Association, a copy of which had been sent to the Secretary of this Association for the purpose of being filed with its records. We learn also that said resolutions have not for some reason or other been received. We have learned of the text of the same from a member of the Bar of Spokane County, and we are fully prepared to endorse the eulogistic sentiments therein contained.

Judge Blake was one of the most prominent lawyers in Eastern Washington; was a former member of the judiciary of this State, having served as a Superior Judge for four years, and was at his death the First Vice-President of this Association. His legal attainments, his honesty of purpose, and his purity of character had endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and probably no one has ever received a greater mark of respect than was tendered him by the Bar of his own County, and probably none of our members have ever been entitled to greater recognition than Judge He stood for all that was honest, all that was right, and was universally beloved.

Blake.

He was born in Indiana about fifty-two years ago, was a graduate of De Paw University, came to the State, of Washington in 1888, entered into the practice of his profession at Spokane and elected to the bench of the Superior Court in 1889. He was promptly recognized as a strong lawyer, an able man, and an upright jurist

and his sudden death in Chicago a few weeks ago ended the career of a man whose prospects were as brilliant as that of any lawyer in the State. O. JACOBS,

Chairman.

To the Bar Association of Spokane County and Washington.

The undersigned, your committee appointed to present an expression of the regrets of the members of the Bar of Spokane County upon the recent sudden death of their brother, Hon. R. B. Blake, report the following tribute of our respect :

The Honorable Richard B. Blake was a resident of Spokane County, Washington for the space of thirteen years before his death, and was one of the earlier practising lawyers of this section, and well known in almost every part of the State. He arrived here when its judicial and legislative history was taking on its permanent form, and contributed greatly to its progress and development. Being of mature years and strong intellect, having clear convictions and unbending integrity, qualities which were recognized by all upon the slightest acquaintance, he exercised an influence over the community where he resided of the most useful and exhalted character. So fully was his fitness for the position recognized, that as soon as the State Constitution went into effect, he was chosen Judge of the Superior Court of Spokane County, and we express the unanimous opinion of the entire Bar and of the people in saying that he performed his judicial duties with a learning, integrity and impartiality alike creditable to himself and to the State. He enjoyed the confidence of our profession in the highest degree, and retired from his judicial duties bringing with him into our ranks the respect of laymen and lawyer alike. practising lawyer, while zealous in the cause of his clients, he was ever courteous to those to whom he was opposed. He wielded the weapon of his profession with skill and no unfairness was ever attributed to him, and he leaves us with no stain upon his name either as Judge or practitioner. We invade the sanctity of his life as a man, only to say of it, that his career as an officer and a lawyer was but an illustration of his personal virtues. His friends were limited only by his personal acquaintances. While always genial, he was firm in his convictions, and while he tolerated others who might differ from him, he sacrificed nothing of his own

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views to any pressure against them. A man of strict rules of personal conduct, his life was guided and governed by them, and while he was a serious man he never permitted it to becloud his intercourse with the world about him, or to obtrude it upon others. His death came to us as a shock, for with his uncomplaining nature, his malady had been unknown to most of us. We feel that there has passed from among us one of the noblest, truest, best and learned of our profession. As lawyers we deplore his departure; as his friends we mourn him, and as his brother we submit his memory to the future, knowing that his life will reflect honor on his associates, and be a lasting heritage to his family.

We desire to offer our sincere sympathy to the surviving wife and children of our departed brother, and assure them that while .their grief at their loss may be more poignant than ours, it is not more sincere.

JOHN R. MCBRIDE.

H. D. CROWE.

R. J. DAWSON.

Election of officers being in order, a ballot was taken with the following results :

Samuel R. Stern, of Spokane, was elected President.

Austin Mires, of Ellensburg, was elected First Vice-President. R. G. Hudson, of Tacoma, was elected Second Vice-President. William A. Peters, of Seattle, was elected Third Vice-President. Nathan S. Porter, of Olympia, was re-elected Secretary.

C. W. Hodgdon, of Montesano, was elected Treasurer.

C. H. Hanford, of Seattle, Will. H. Thompson, of Seattle, and D. J. Crowley, of Tacoma, were elected delegates to the American Bar Association.

Mr. Sterns moved that the next session of this Association be held in the City of Spokane, beginning on Tuesday, July 9th 1901. Motion carried unanimously.

On motion of Judge Jacobs, Judge Battle was admitted an honorary member of the Association.

On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered to the Seattle Bar especially, and the citizens of Seattle generally, for the courteous and excellent manner in which this association has been entertained during this session.

The President announced that all of the members of the Association were invited to take the Yesler Way Cable Car to Lake Washington, thence go by steamer across the lake to Midenbawn Park, where a bounteous dinner would be prepared, and boats and launches would be at the disposal of the guests. On motion the Association adjourned.

N. S. PORTER, Secretary.

NOTE. The excursion across Lake Washington was a very pleasant one, and at the Park, tables were spread with choice edibles and liquid refreshments were not wanting. Many indulged in pleasant little excursions in the launches upon the lake. In the evening, the parties returned to the city and gave many expressions of satisfaction for the courtesies received at the hands of the Seattle Bar.

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