The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-04-21
GENERAL C. S. WARREN
PASSES AWAY IN BUTTE
NOTED MONTANA PIONEER WAS
WIDELY KNOWN IN NOR
THERN IDAHO.

warren came 10 tnlS district nrSt IN
! 1887. being one Of the Patsy" Clark
]. crowd that took over and developed
the Poorman mine at Burke He was
afterward associated with the late
John NJ. Burke IN various mining pro
motions in this district as well as
elsewhere. General Warren was a
fine type of the pioneers who laid
the foundation for such common
wealths as Montana and Idaho, and
he had the respect and affection of
wide circle of friends not alone in
Montana, but throughout the west.
His eventful career began in 1861.
Charles S Warren was a farmer
boy in Illinois when the war of the
rebellion broke out. He at once en-
listed and served throughout the en-
tire war. having two honorable dis
charges to his credit. After his dis
charge from the army at the conclu-
sion of the war the restless spirit
aroused by the long years of conflict
drove him to seek other adventures
and in 1866 he drove team of bulls
across the plains to Virginia City
Mont Shortly after his arrival here
he taught school in the Deer Lodge
valley and probably the earliest of the
Montana school masters. Teaching
occupied the winter and placer min
ing the summer months of 1S66-67.
AS Law Enforcer.
The people had other work for him.
He was called on to assist in the en-
forcement of the law in a land where
the motto was shoot first and talk
afterward" He successfully served
as deputy sheriff under sheriff and
sheriff of Deer Lodge county from
1869 to 1875. In 1880 he was chosen
police magistrate of Butte where his
saying, IT'S the outside money that
keeps the town up became famous
in this district
As a police judge Charley Warren
mixed law and common sense in just
the proportion made necessary by the
character of folks with whom he had
to deal and for years after he left the
bench his epigrammatic summing up
of cases was often quoted with glee
by the men about town. He was re-
elected to the same office 26 years
afterward. largely on the reputation
for practical common sense he had /
established a quarter of a century be
fore A miner who appeared before .
HIM charged with being drunk was
dismissed with what is now a famous .
judicial dictum: 1.-THE case is dismiss
ed go back to work. Any man who
works underground has a right to get
drunk once a month"
There are stories innumerable about
General Warren. Among them is one
regarding the manner in which he
took the census of Deer Lodge county
for the federal government Warren
was deputy sheriff and the govern
ment request came to him Highland
was the metropolis and its one store
was patronized by all. The general
went to the store and copied the or
der books If man had an Irish or
a doubtful name Warren listed him
as Irish" Men whom he knew to be
from Missouri he facetiously listed as
foreign"
1T answered just as we'll" said the
general, land was probably as nearly
correct as if a staff of census takers 1
had been sent out" This was in
1870.
on one of his trips into the British
Columbia district, In which he was
Interested as well as in Idaho and
Montana, the boat on which he was a
was wrecked on the Col =
lmbia. which is a shallow stream
where it crosses the Canadian line
There was a lot of silver ore aboard
ears after at low water, some min "
rs found some of this ore and start
d some excitement which subsidized =
.hen Warren published the facts re- =
arding the marvellous ledge" that -
Intercepted in the Columbia.
Warren's Own Story.
Warren's own story of his coming
, this part of the state. told a few ~
'eeks before his death was substan- -
ally as follows; -,
II landed in Virginia City on the
9TH day of August, 1866 From
lere l went to Helena, packing my
ankets, I saw the prizehght between
onroy and Hugh O'Neil on the oath NJ
August. 1866. at Helena. From
lere I went over TO Deer Lodge. be-
re there was a single roof on a wa
,use in town They were building a FL
of on what was called later the ka
'ott house. It rained that night. I Co
emit in and spread my blankets on ere
e floor; one-half was dry ] got up ter
the morning and he charged me pa
so for my lodging The next day de'
went to French gulch; there was no dir
laconda then That was about the Mr.
tn or 29th of August I stayed an,
ere until we cleaned our sluices on wo
e 20th day of November 1866 unC
member the day because it was my owl
-thday They had a dickens Of a the
owstorm in October. came over to of
yer Bow and spent the winter nov
ere. At that time Silver Bow was syn
; metropolis of Deer Lodge county. lars
anne to Butte either the oath or 26th title,