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' Page I.* Warren* a Early Years i» W yming . *&tra8t)&ilft& 4 * * * * «. * * * 1 la n y H i® **fo*« Ooaiag to Wyoming # # f&«- Oevtlopffleai of toy**** . , . . 4 Wm&b tad lA rm tm k iatiaeaa * . . . 7 P olitical §*»*** to li#3 * . . * • IS / II* wmwm m d to . 9m m A for vm® ****** . . t o ****** **••%*«* t» 1890 * * . • as V**«•**• A ttito* t» ai€ ' * H * r v * • if Repeal of the Sherman Act . , . 39 . a © it Aon of 1898 * * * * * * * 30 Silver Legislation after 1888 » * • 33 ill* . rnrnm*® right la t o senate for a proteetiw© ta riff on Wool and Hides Attitai© toward: t o ta riff « * * * Si m © t o ! Sohednl© of t o ita g lif M il. * #1 ta riff oa ilia© . * * * * .» * ♦. . 4* Reciprocity treaty with Argentina . • §1 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. If* Other ^legislation Relating to tit® Sheep and Cattle Industries ■ . .......................... m m Inspection Act * . * . . * * it, , Oleomargarine S ill * * * * » • * Si' AStaHfetilSf m il * * * * * * . * §6 ?* W « * i I f tt for Xxrifat&oi of the Arid mf%f jttig o tio p . • * . * .* w «»* t Ajni Stwi. m i . * ^« * * * 69 SfelitenSen Report * * * * * * * * ST gnffeya. of -lesefrelf ■ S lits * « * . . T3 M M fttloB Aet * * * * * * * * TS f I* wm $m WK*., ftttoiif M is legislation . * _. SO Land Laws ip; the feet * *. * . .. * . * @0 Act of is s i 0 * * ■ * * # * * . s i otaiing famiw * ♦' . * * , * # . * if Forest Reserves. * * * ♦ * * * SO fyouing State MAietftt. •. and Sailors* Some. * * > * *- * * * * * is®" VII. further 6sgiitoii«ii Pealing with Ifoping ■mmmm Interest* ,* ,,* * * . * xos Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Xt&tafy F«Jrt* 103 fnri It* A* JiasiMiil * # • * < » , 109 tig Horn tot Springs * . . . . 113 Tellowstoae I&tioa&l Park , * . 114 fill. Military Affairs Wmmm*s A ttitude on foreiga If fa irs H i Hough R War a B ill * * * * , 130 Mam Reorganization . . . . . 133 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ohaptkr i WARRIS * S SARLY' Y1ARS II WfOMIIG The story of the early years of Francis faroy .Warren In Wyoming is intim ately connected with the history of the economic and p o litical development of the state and particularly of Cheyenne, the capltoi of the so-called C attle .kingdom, Warren came to Cheyenne in 1338 when the little cattle town was the *end of the track* of the advancing Union Pacific railhead. Years la te r Warren thus described his firs t impression of Cheyennei J| ■ Cheyenne was then a city of shanties and ten ts, camps and covered wagons* The people were migra­ tory* 'The railroad having b u ilt further on, every­ one wm discussing the probability of a permanent to m , and the prevailing idea seemed to be, that in Bit months hardly a stake would be le ft to mark'the location of Cheyenne. * « There was then not a grad­ ed, stree t, ditch, sewer or crossing in the town— nothing but a lo t of tents and shanties, dropped down or thrown together on the bare p rairie, cover­ ing space enough, perhaps, to make a large c ity .l At the time of Warren * s arrival in Wyoming the cattle industry, which was to assume such dominance in the econ­ omic life-o f the state, was already on -the point of rapid Salt hake Tribune* December 3, 1917, This artic le gives a sietoh of Sarrea*s life and career* I t la preserved, in' the farren Collection in the Univ­ ersity of Wyoming Library* Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 3 expansion. The building of the railroad bad expanded the market for the cattlemen who previously bad bean dependant on mining ©sap® and m ilitary post* for tbe •ale of tfeeir beef* lo t only did the construction work­ ers and the inhabitant® of the ephemera railroad town® provide a local market for beef, but the railroad meant a mean® of shipping stock to eastern market#* la the •eventl#.®, herds of fexas long-born® itocked the Western plains. In The Par of .ttep .Qftttfeasau Osgood present® th is table to Illu stra te the increasing numbers of cat­ tle chipped from Wyoming ranches in the seventies:2 Teat Oarloads 1873 add 1874 738 1878 . 975 ■1876 1*344 lift 1,649 Oheyenne, tb® oapltol of the new territo ry of Wyoming, was the headquarters of the ca ttle business and the cen­ te r of the large supply trad® being conducted with the .■range country. ®y 1890, when fatten became the f irs t governor of. the newly created state of Wyoming, Obey- ©an® bad a population of over eleven, thousand. Warren was bom In Hinsdale* M assachusetts, on ' Jim® 30* 1844, the son of bard working lew England farm-, era, descendants of Arthur Warren who emigrated from a 'fittest Staples Osgood, jttg Jtay of the Cattleman (Minneapolis! University of MlnneCotapref®, 19^1, p* Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 3 England about 1836. At the age of fifteen lie le ft home to work on a neighboring farm, Later he became foreman of a dairy farm, and by means of the wages he saved, he succeeded In securing for him self two years of study at Hinsdale Academy. Warren was seventeen years old a t the time the C ivil War began, end la the following year on September 11, 1863, he enlisted la Cospany 8 of the 49th Massachusetts Infantry. By the next spring he was ad­ vanced to the rank of corporal. At fo rt Budeon, Louis* tana, he was one of a group of volunteers sent ahead to oatry timber and fascines to f i l l up a ditoh in front of the earth works of the fo rt, so that the a rtille ry and other troops might cross for a storming attack. The mis­ sion was a dangerous one, end although many of his com­ rades were k illed , Warren escaped with a scalp wound. For th is act of bravery Warren was awarded the Congress­ ional Medal of Honor.3 Warren was honorably discharged from the army at 3 In Bay, 1893, Senator Hale introduced in the Senate a bill, to authorise the Secretary of far to issue medals of honor to the survivors of the port Hudson storming party of June 16, 1883. Warren, now Suited States Senator from Wyoming, offered an .amendment to in­ clude the survivors of the Port Hudson storming party of May 35) 1663, of which he had been a member. Senator Cock­ re ll ob|eotei because, he said, the la tte r were already provided 'for under the statu tes. Warrenfs amendment, was rejected by the Senate. .Congressional geoofd, 53 Gong., 1 le s s ., lay 13, 1893, p . '|M r “ l M f^ re n received a certificate en titlin g him to a pension of twenty-nine dollars a month. A fter M e 30, 1919, he was entitled to'receive thirty-tw o dollars and- fifty ©eats a month. Pension certificate So, 1,171tf38, Warren Collection. 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