| Show BEER IS CAUSE OF ADMISSION TO BAR I SIC Success s s In Life Jirl Hinged ed on un iii lit Threat of Ills II Honor honorS S the e. e Beaver er Dea Ok Mn May 3 The Tho death In Taloga Dewey Desey count county of Charles W. W Bu Bugbee bee reminds me of or a n novel Incident Inci mci- dent ent In his lIfe Jfe an oid timer old who came to Beaver er Dea county before Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa was opened to settlement Bu bees bee's care career r In Oklahoma turned turned turn turn- ed el upon a jol joke e perpetrated In Stevens count county Kansas In the early SOs SOs The Time outcome was sas not to Bugbee's Bugbee's discredit i and only showed what men mon of small smal opportunities could do In anew a anew new country countr like Oklahoma If It In Industrious In- In and persevering pelO During his ent residence In Oklahoma Bu Bugbee bce was engaged ed In hii the practice of or law v a wa u eL enSo it coin ml cm to practice ln th ond supreme mc- mc courts court Ho Howan wan i Li- Li member L o of the con constitutional convention of ot territory now Heaver Beaver county count and once no no mans man's mant land and after Beaver er Dea county was attached to Oklahoma Bugbee ser cd served as an nn attorney and later as probate I judge jut c of Beaver el Dea county All Al these positions were wre due duc to his being as ns a lawyer I t Gi-t i as ms a Test lest Here Is the story of how Bugbee became a lawyer lawyel S Bugbee Bughee was a man of limited edu edu- caton cation When he lived Ived In Stevens ens count county his ambition was to be n a lawer lawyer law law- yer er District court was In session one day and In spirit of or jest acquaintances acquaint acquaint- ances of Bugbee asked the judge julge to toIe give I e him a commission as aR a lawyer lauyer The rhe day was hot and dry dr as were the court cOUL attendants The jul judge e consented consented con con- to examine Du Bugbee bee and ant give him a commission the te stipulated fee being a case of beer heel fh The rue beer was produced produce Produced and and drunk drunk and and and the jud judge e euc Issued uc a commission to Bugbee lubee to practice In iii all 31 the courts of No Mans Man's Lan Land and At that time No Mans Man's Lund Land was vas outside the lie jurisdiction of or both state tate and federal so governments If J nu Bugbee bce saw sav sw the Joke jole ho he made madeno no 10 complaint Settlers Setters were pouring Into nto Beaver county and Bugbee joined he We pioneers and established himself in n Beaver Cf City as a lawyer There There- were vere man many neighborhood quarrels which were heard before improvised courts and a rude ct certain jus- jus Ice rendered Bugbee Bugbee was employed In n man many of or these cams s Ho He was waH a aman aman anan man nan of keen perception and antI probably served sr his clients as us well weB as would other men who boasted of or diplomas rom from colleges of law hat Admitted to Federal Court Homicides grow grew so o numerous InNo Ino In InNo No o Mans Man's Land that the f lerl government gov gor- finally placed No Mans Man's llan's Land under the jurisdiction of tho thu lii United States court at Pall Paris Texas Texas Bugbee was at employed for the defense In the lie first murder murdel case cne taken flomo from flom No o Mans Man's Land to Paris Paris He lie Ie had never been admitted to t practice In Iii federal courts Men en now ln 1 living hivIng in 1 Beaver Baver nver county were verc with wih him at Paris an and ui used usel ed their theli thel influence to convince the lie judge at Paris Pars that lint in as much as Busbee was wa engaged in the practice of law In No o Mans Man's llan's Land and had been retained in the lie cases caes on trial It i would woul be he proper to admit him to practice Ice tice before tho the court at Paris The Tho court consented and thereby established Bugbee as a lawyer When hen Oklahoma was opened to settlement the commission given Bugbee Bugbee Bug Bug- DuJ- DuJ bee at Paris Pari was used by him hIm to gain admission to practice in the tho district courts court of Oklahoma Once admitted to practice in these courts it was ras easy to get a u commission in itt the he supreme court coult of the hue territory Bugbee became capable n as the thc as us average country countr lawyer lawer and this titis practice was sufficient to make him him a 1 living But hut a case of or beer that relieved the tho thirst of oC a crowd of oC on 01 n a sultry sullY da day In Stevens Ste ens count county countI Kansas as was re responsible re- re for his career careO as us a n lawyer |
