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Rh Judge E. T. Wells and Ex-Senator T. M. Patterson were not admitted to this bar until the following year. John M. Waldron's name was added to the roll in 1879, and our well-beloved and hoary friends, James H. Blood and Gustave C. Bartels, signed up, in this order, three days apart, in July, 1880—the first, last and only time they were ever known to do the same thing or anything, at different times.

Wilbur F. Stone went early to the Supreme bench of the state, and so the name of this much-esteemed historian of the pioneer bench and bar does not appear on this roll until many years later.

Edward O. Wolcott, "of Georgetown," was admitted here on the fifth day of the court's session. Senator Charles S. Thomas was admitted December 14th, and Frederick W. Pitkin, afterwards governor for two terms, about the same time, General Bela M. Hughes, Henry M. Teller, George W. Miller and Vincent D. Markham were enrolled in 1877.

These were honored in their generation and were the glory of the times, and there are of them that have left a name behind them.

General Hughes, the Nestor of the bar, and Chevallier Bayard of Colorado; Butler, walking statelier than Rome's tribune, master of logic and rhetoric, and able to contend with all the canniness of his Scotch, or the fervor of his Irish, ancestors, as the cause demanded; it was said of Butler that he never put forth his best efforts until he came to the petition for a rehearing, and that if he represented the defendant the case was never tried until both parties were dead, and generally not then; Wolcott, like Cariolanus, hating the many-headed multitude, but able to sway with his voice, juries and assemblies; Henry M. Teller, cold as the icicle on Dian's temple, but bold as a lion when aroused to righteous wrath; Miller, uncouth and not too learned, but with a fierce and savage imagery and posture and voice, an inheritance of his Indian blood, which drove all before him.

Miller was defending a man accused of manslaughter, in the Territorial Court at Colorado Springs. Judge Hallett