The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
WYOMING'S BEST MEN
The New States Senators and
What They Look Like.
SENATOR INGALLS, ALL RIGHT.
Farmers' Alliance Can't Beat Him--Gen-
eral Belief That the Organixa.
ton Is EphemeraI.

WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. 81 Copyrighted,
1890. The United States Senate opens
this year with two full grown babies.
These are the twin senator's from the new
state of Wyoming. They are both bright
fellows and they promise well. Senators
Carey and Warren are of the same age,
both were born in the East, both have
made money in Western stock-raising,
and both come from the capital of the new
state. Cheyenne. Senator Carey has good
standing here as a territorial delegate. He
has served i've years in congress, and he is
as straight as string and as bright as a
button. He has studied the machinery of
congressional legislation, and he goes into
the Senate well equipped for his duties.
The most interesting of the new sena-
tors, however, is Governor Warren. He is
entirely new to Washington City, and his
only political service has been as governor
OF Wyoming territory, mayor of Cheyenne,
and as one of the leading politicians of his
section. He is a man with history, and
his life has been typically American. His
father was a Massachusetts, farmer who
believed that all the learning boy needed
was comprised in the mastery of the three
R's-.'readin', 'ritin' 'rithmetic" When
young Warren was Ii years old, he had, to
certain extent, mastered these, and he
wanted more schooling. His father
told him that if he got it he
would have to earn it and he let him have
his time for himself. From that age until
now Warren has made his own living.
He got good education by working in
the summers and going to school in the
winters, and the most of his lessons were
studied by the light of tallow dip away
up under the roof in his attic room in
his grandfather's house, where he boarded
He had progressed well in his. academical
studies when the war broke cut, and he
was at this time about Is years
old. He wanted to enlist at once,
but his father sent him word for
bidding it, and according to the laws of
Massachusetts, he had to be considerably
older before he could go withoutliis fathers
consent. He was under contract to work
for his master until he was Is. But on his
eighteenth birthday, the 23d of June, 1862,
he came in to town with load of cheese
determined to go to the war. There was a
meeting in the town hall that night for re-
cruits, and Senator Warren tells me that
when he went in be saw his. father
there, and he was afraid he might
prevent his enlistment. He was also
backward because bounty of $150
had been offered for volunteers, and
he feared it would be thought he went
into the army for the bounty. When the
request for recruits was made, however, he
found himself on his feet before he knew
| it, and as he started up for the front, his
father stood by his side and took his arm
and walked with him, saying, that he had
not wanted him to go before, but that he
was man now, and he had confidently
| expected to find him here and that he went
with his consent and his blessing.
! Well, so young Warren started out to
battle. He was only in service about a
year, and had been offered a commission
when sickness drove him home to Massa-
| chusetts. He had here, for time, charge
of the largest dairy farm in that part of
| the country, and was making a high
salary for New England, when he decided
| to go West. He stopped in Iowa, worked
| there for time, and then went on to
! Cheyenne. He had no money to speak of,
| but he got into merchandising and
! cattle raising, and gradually increased
| his capital by successful turns and by his
| knowledge of stock until he is now one of
| the richest cattle men in the country. He
| is the president and the chief stakeholder
in the Warren Live Stock Company, and
| this company has 100000 sheep, 5000 COWS,
and about 1000 horses. It has dock OF Of
| 5000 Angora goats, and it has some of the
finest imported rams in the United
| States. 1t owns 100 600 acres of land, and it
| is increasing the number ofits animals right
along. Wyoming is a state of thousands of
! hills, and Warren may well be called the
T1h &c 4 la<.C g. L. L.
| the best OF them. He is like Job, too, in
his other possessions, for he is a man of
many interests. His merchandising inter-
ests extend over the whole state, and his
Cheyenne house has agencies in Salt Lake
| and Ogden. He has Interests in the cleo
trio light plant of Cheyenne, and there are
few business interests in the city with
| which he is not connected.
Let me tell you how this Wyoming sena-
| tor looks. called upon him last night in
| his room at the Arlington hotel, and
| found him a good-looking fellow of about
46 years of age, debating like mad to a
| typewriter who took down his words on a
machine that ratified like corn-sheller.
| The senator left off his dictation upon NV
entrance, but the internal clicking went on
| during our conversation. Senator Warren
is about six feet tall and his form is as
W
hugs the Wyoming slopes of the Rocky
mountains His shoulders are as broad
| as are Western ideas, and his chest has
| been made deep and full by the rarined
| air of Cheyenne, which contains l am
| told hfty times as much ozone as any air
east of the Mississippi: Senator Warren
| is blonde. His hair is of light brown.
! His eyes are blue, and he has luxuriant
! straw-colored moustache, which comes well
| down over a strong and clean cut mouth.
| His forehead is high and broad, his nose
| is straight, and his face is, on the whole,
rather handsome. He dresses well, talks
well, and will, l judge, be a man
OF OF more mo- st than ordinary soan weight
him as TO the present condition of
| the new state. Said he: "The state of
Wyoming is increasing in population right
! along. IL is true the census gives us only
| sixty thousand, but We had only
hfteen thousand in 1s7o and
l think our population today is
| have great many out OF the way towns
| and districts in which il was hard to get
| an accurate census. Our state contains
| about ninety thousand square miles and
| you could lose the six New England states
| inside OF it. Some of our county seats are
/ 115 miles from railroad, and | believe
| that we have about 10000 more population
than the census has given us. Nevada is
! decreasing in population, but our popula-
! ton will steadily grow and we will have, /
1 think, one of the great states of the West.
What has the STATE 10 make il great
/ asked; Il thought it was all sage brush
/ and mountains"
I'VE have one of the richest mineral
/ regions in the United States" replied the
/ senator. "Our coal and iron will eventu-
/ ally make Us a great manufacturing state
and we have thirty Thousand square miles