Judge Knowles' Response

Judge Knowles’ Response.

Judge Knowles’ voice trembled as he arose and, in plain, homely language, voiced his feelings of gratitude for the kindly expressions of his old friends with whom he had practiced and who had practiced before him. He recited early day experiences on the bench, relating how he tried to bring about indictments of a mob that had lynched a Chinaman in Henderson Gulch, Deer Lodge county, in 1868, when he was on the supreme bench of the territory, but was unsuccessful.

Conditions soon changed, he was glad to say. He told of the difficulties that at first confronted the territorial judges when he was a member, and later how he opened federal court here with little or no information upon the federal practice. Judge Knowles paid a tribute to his successor and said he was glad to welcome him as such.