The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-05-06

all Montana, took the long, Lone
trail across the last divide. The
states history had NO more pictnr.
esque character. A man Of let
tiers, he had experienced al tho
thrill of frontier life, the hartlshipo
Of the pioneer, the ups and downs
Of the early day miner and pros.
pector and after years Of vicissi.
tudes, the prosperity Of meritor.
ious endeavor. His life has been
as varied as that Of almost any
other pioneer Montanan. He was
the first police magistrate Of
Butte, one Of the first sheriffs Of
Deer Lodge county, q member Of
the republican national committee
from 1854 to 1888, and q member
Of the constitutional convention
which drafted the primary law Of
Montana.
In business his activities had been
principally limited to mining and
real estate, being in various capaci-
ties connected with mining in the
Treasure state ever since his arrival
in Montana in 1866.
As Soldier
When the civil war broke in 1851
General Warren, then q farmer boy,
enlisted In the union army. He saw
full four years of service, receiving
two honorable discharges in the war
of the rebellion and at its conclusion
he headed west. General Warren
navigated the plains in prairie
schooner, driving two bulls to Vir-
ginia City from st. Joseph, Mo. As
a driver he received $25 q month and
at his arrival in the Montana mining
camp was paid off in greenbacks,
which at that time were worth only
half their face value.
Probably his first mining venture
was that at French Gulch, where he
placer mined for four years with
success.
In 1873 he was elected sheriff of
Deer Lodge county, as a republican,
but he did not employ his office as a
opportunity, and as q
result when his term ended he had
to borrow SIS to get him to Butte.
Here he located a number of mines,
among which was the Lexington,
it is said, he sold to Judge
Davis for $50, and which the Judge
afterward sold for million and a
half.
In the Nez Perces War
General Warren was the mastering
officer and served in the Neg Perces
Indian war in 1877 as adjutant of
the Montana battalion.
While always more or less directly
engaged in public service, for sew
eral years General Warren had re-
tired to private life until last fall,
when he announced his candidacy for
the state legislature and was elected
with handsome majority.
For great many years the general
was engaged in the real estate and
business with former United
States Senator Lee Mantle, and while
his business ventures, like his mining
fortunes, were often attended by i'll |
luck, he succeeded in accommodating
a respectable fortune and in the later
years of his life enjoyed the pros
perity which his intrepid efforts
made deserving.
General Warren was in point of |
rank the Oldest past department
of the Grand Army of |
the Republic for the department OF !
Montana and member of the board
OF managers of the state soldiers
home.
On Governors Staffs
He served on several gubernatorial
staffs with rank from major to briga-
dier-general and was adjutant of the
Montana battalion in the Nez Perces
war. He was president of the So
ciety of Montana Pioneers in l9O7-O8l
and was life member of the Silver
Bow club, which he helped to ogan- |
lie.
Mrs. Warren was Miss Mittie
Avery. Mr.. and Mrs. Warren were
married November Is, 1872, near
Silver Bow. then Deer Lodge county.
BY Rev. w. H. Stoy, an Episcopal
clergyman. they being the first cou-
pie to be married west of the Rocky
in Montana by an Epis-
,opal clergyman.
Like all the early day invaders OF
Montana mountain Businesses, Cen
eral Warren devoted most of his time
n the earliest years to mining.
Located Many Mines
Among lodes which he at one time
n another was interested in, some
II which he had complete control
Ind others only partial, were the fol.
owing:
Montana, Sonora. Josephine, St,
louis. Bland. Pay Streak, Henrietta.
Highland Chief, Donegal.
aopewell. Unknown, Sooner. Masto.
lon, Snowflake. Wooden. Amazon.
Arctic, Anna, Zeus, Arrimo-
a. Hub. Blackfoot. sunberry, Rail-
Dad, Hesperus, Creola, Grand juno
ion, Silver Joe. Sarsfield Zarelda.
tew Moon, Pixies Peak, Carte
Anderson, Welcome Stran-
;er. Protection, Annie, Arlington.
rhesus and Mary Ann.
In recent newspaper article Cen
raj Warren told of his personal his
DRY as follows:
His Own Story
Il landed in Virginia City on the
10Th day of August. 1866. From
here I went to Helena, packing my