The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1910 Page: 3 of 10
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For the Capture of
JOHN PAUL JONES.
Commanding an Amer-
ican Ship, the Gov
crnment will pay
the sum of
T 0,000 Guineas.
John Paul Jones was
— tho first man to pluck
iKtin-l wreath for the American navy. Taking
Into consideration the means at his command, his
ixploltH were more daring and fully an succeHuful
u those Which forty years later gave luster to
•he name of Mainbridge, Rogers, Porter and De-
catur. Of the deeds of John Paul Jones, though
they are written down In the histories of four na
Hons. the world seems to know oomftaratlvely
little today, while of the man. John Paul Jones,
MHirOkS to the Navul academy frequently write
letters to the authorities In Washington asking
why It Is that the body of Admiral John Paul
Jones Is allowed to remain In an obscure corner
< nder a stairway In one of the Naval academy
halls. It Is proposed eventually to provide a
fitting resting place In the academy chai* l for
the remains of the great sailor, hut one delay
after another has come aud the delay has not
only caused comment, but complaint.
When tho remains of the admiral were
brought to America there was a great common
tnemoratlve sirvlce. Theodore Roosevelt, who
was then president, members of his cabinet and
officers of high rank In the navy spoke In pralss
of the deeds of the hero, but when the exercises
were over forget fulness slimed to como where
all had been attention.
John Paul Jones not only had a stirring,
wnrllke ll'e. but his life was touched with ro-
mance of a gentler kind.
The British government thought enough of
trls man to cause to he posted at every sea-
port In the United
Kingdom this placard:
Nd\eJ ~HeroS*P
Death usr
_CQPYR1GHT Jay W A. PATTERSON
HORRORS OF FIH£ SWEPT DIS-
TRICT OF MINNESOTA GROW
TRAGEDY IS APPALLING
| Wild Animal* and Humans Flee Side
By Side Before Fierce Wall
of Seething Flam* in Mii*
nesota Forests
We are always complaining our daya
are few and acting as If there were mm
end of ibem.—Addlaea
_ , *ra rwoM Bai l. BLOB
Should be ia every heme Ask your
mt it. Largs 3 us. package oaly I
Indefinite.
"I am positive this actress bun bar
puffs."
"Which oo>s—newspaper or ub>
dresser's?"
Pleasant Place to Prwspor.
TH BOfTOIt; W% west le hew
who would itjirwut* ew
a fruit, dairy or poultry lim I*
I,, tract In SecruMat*
Valler CaHfo'-Bla. at half tho true relaa.
"•at waiar right la siata I «w —-i.t^-
nsnee coat. Worfe rooilws niliiAiu
actually drala
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Winnipeg. .Man. -Latest reports of .
the forest fir.-a In the Rulney river re- ! n?onih °* orum
Klon of Minnesota Monday Increased • «Ku andU<.!hor fVuUo*"£St£
th. horrors of the situation,. If not -.oUr '.^fS'^r
the number of lives lost. Ksilmates 'V' hrt~J"\'ui ,w.h# -•"W %
of the number of persons killed range ortl lo? •*"
from 75 to 400 tonight. Several con-
servative men of business and author- , -
Ity place the deaths at more than lOo. j Telephonic Reply.
But the greater concern for the pres- 1 Th# *W®rly stranger, by InrUattoa
ont is the rescue of tho helpless, and of th" ""Perlntendent, was a<1<lreealns
the relief of tliouaanda of homeless th* Sunday school.
men, women unci children. **f!ow many can tell me." he aake*
Stories of wild animals, Hoeing for "whlch 1 tho longest chapter In tha
safety, side by side with human be-
Ings, their natural fear and hostility Many hands went up.
guenched by the terror of the flames; "This little boy may answer." h*
of mothers burned to death with ba saId' pointing his finger at an urehlia
"ies on their breasts, and of men ere- ,n one of tho 8eat* near the front
mated while endeavoring to shield 1® the longoat chapter la th*
their children, were among the
items of horrors brought in today. "Psalm double ona nine!" shouted
"i"" J Tosimy Tucker.
<jr-
\A>r±
IndlcatlensL
"T might know this conservator/ be-
longed to a baseball enthusiast."
"Why?"
"Because it has so many p'trhsr
H
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though volunms of speculation have been written
the world knows almost nothing. From his youth
h6 seemed to prefer that everything touching his
Inntr self should be shrouded, though he was
nothing loath to demand proper recognition for
the acts which he performed for his country's
good.
There have never been lacking insinuations
that the real reason for the admiral's reticence
arose from his desire to hide certain things which
had been said touching his parentage. It was
commonly reported at tho time that John Paul
Jones, thotiph born to tiie family of John Paul, a
thrifty Scotch gardener at Arb'glnnd on the Sol-
way Firth, wes In reality the son of Lord Selkirk,
upon whoso estate Gardener Paul delved. Care-
ful Inquiry has disproved the scandal. Jennie
Macduff, the mother of the naval hero and the
wife of Gardener Paul, was a woman of charac-
ter. possessed In full measure of tho homely do-
mestic virtues.
It must be said here that the American ad-
miral added the name Jones to his family name
of Paul at the time when he first made applica-
tion for a commission In the American navy. Why
the namo was added, though speculation has been
rlfa for more than a century, no one to this day
inows. The boy Paul, the youngest of five sons,
was born tn a little cottage standing in a glade
near where the NIth comes flowing into the Sol-
way When only twelve years of age he was
apprenticed to a ship merchant at White Haven.
* village where years afterward the people fright
>med their children Into obedience by tho men-
tion cf "the demon. Paul Jones."
The future admiral's first voyage tool^ blm
to the Rappahannock river of America. Twice
ir three times the trip was repeated, and finally,
iwlng to the death of his master, the apprentice
was released from his engagement at the age
of sixteen. An elder brother had settled on the
banks ef the American river, and With him the
<oy lived and studied for some time. He again
• ent to sea about the time that he attained his
majority, sailing for Scotland as a for'mast band
fn a brig On the voyage the captain and mate
died, and the crew placed Jones In command. On
Ills arrival tn Scotland the owners of ttto vessel
cave him tho havth of captain
On a voyage outward
bound from Scotland.
Jones, as captain of the
merchant brig, ordered
that a mutinous carpen-
ter be flogged. A year
afterward the man died.
Jones' enemies said as a
result of the beating.
Jones' friends said as
the result of a long-fixed
disease. The youthful
captain succeeded in
clearing his character in
the eyes of all unpreju-
diced persons, but the
treatment that he re-
ceived while under sus-
picion, at the hands of
his former Scotch
friends, so aroused his
indignation and anger
that he quit Scotland
never to return except
as an Implacable enemy.
Jones, or as he was
then, John Paul, was
next heard of living In
penury, near Fredericks-
burg, this country. The
Revolution came on. At
the time of the battles
at Lexington and Con-
cord the colonies did
not have a single vessel
afloat. There was no material for a navy save
some good sailors. The future American admiral
walked to Philadelphia in the autumn of 1775 and
appeared before the marine committee appointed
by congress to make some provisions for a navy,
and when asked his name he said "Jones," and
by that name history has since known him. The
committee would have paid little attention to his
request for a commission had it not happened
that one of its members, Richard Henry Lee,
knew something of the career of the supplicant
sailor. He was given a commission as first lieu-
tenant of the Alfred, a merchantman, which had
been made over into a man-of-war. and placed
tinder the command of Commodore Hopkins. To
the masthead of this vessel Jones, with his own
hands, hoisted the first ensign ever shown on an
American man-of-war. It was the famed rattle-
snake flag, with the motto "Don't tread on me."
By a remarkable coincidence, some time later on
the Ranger Jones displayed at the peak the first
bit of Stars and Stripes bunting ever flung to the
breeze of an American man-of-war. A little later
he had the honor of hearing fired In recognition
of the same flag the first salute which it ever
received from a foreign nation, the roar of the
Kuns carrying with it the acknowledgement by
France of the independence of the United Colo-
nies.
Shortly after this Jones wm
made captain of the Providence,
tarrying twelve guns. He cruised
about, capturing many merchant-
men, and finally When off Nova Sco-
tia he fell in with the Milford. a
huge British frigate, which was dis-
guised as a trading ship. Jones
bore down on It until he was within
pistol shot of the vessel. He then
discovered his error, and b- mag-
nificent seamanship succeeded !n
escaping without a scratch, a though
single well-directed broadside
, "'t'8 hell down there," said Engi-
neer Smith, of the Duluth express,
when it arrived here today. His train
brought many refugees from the scene
of the conflagration.
"If the firo keeps on the way It Is
going, there is going to be mighty lit- i
tie left of the population of that part P'«nta.
of Minnesota." he said. I —_____
"It has quieted down a little, but °n® Kenlu I" about all tha areraga
needs only a puff of wind to be as bad 'am,,T can afford.
as ever.
"For miles around Beaudette and
Spooner there were large tracts of
bufcb before this, it is now as level as
the prairie.
"'1 nere has been forest in that part
of the country for such a long time
that the earth is practically peat ana
when a tree fell it set nre even to
the roots and the earth around tho
roots."
Hope Given Up For Miners
Starkville, Colo.—As darkness set-
- t)ed Monday night over the entrance
would have sunk his ship. The Milford chased to the Starkvihe mine, the hope that
the Providence, but wa3 quickly left astern. Tho had buoyed the watchers at the nit
British ship kept firing at the Yankee long after mouth throughout the day that some
It was out of range. In contempt and derision of of the loved ones would be found
this act of the British captain, and knowing that alive, grew faint, and gloom and dU
his actions were being watched through a glass, couragement fell over the silent
Jones ordered a single sailor to stand at the stern crowd.
and shoot a mnsket at the pursuer every time h« After a day of desperate work Id
fired his big bow chaser. | the face of constant peril, the rescue
After serious trouble with the Jealous Hop- Party had penetrated the mine work-
kins, Jones was finally given command of tha lnss nearly 12,000 feet, or within 900
Ranger, eighteen guns. He took a number of fept of the men imprisoned nearest
prizes on the way. and finally put into a French the main entrance. The workings
port. At Paris he met the American commission- were found to be badly wrecked and
ers, Silas Dean, Benjamin Franklin and Arthur poisonous gases were again encount-
Lee, and they secured him an auditnee ai tn® ere<l-
French court. By request he aided in planning Ten thousand feet from the en-
the operations of D'Estaing's fleet, which waa trance, the spot where a fan had hoon
shortly to leave for America. operated before the explosion, was
The heroic fighting career of Jones was just bad,y damaged. The fan was torn
about to bpgin, though with the fame that he won t0 Pieces and scattered hundreds of
in the next few months came the undying hatred feet" The i-200 pound motor had
of all the people of his native country, and ther® been thrown fifty feet from its bed
came also the loss of the only woman he ever The Part7 was compelled to stop and
loved, and whom he had hoped one day to make raa!ie repairs. Brattices were erect-
his wife. British privateers had ravaged the ed 5111(1 in the meantime a dog which
American coast, had sfized American merchan- accompanied the party, wandered
dise and had burned some American towns Jone aimlessly ahead.
believed in making reprisals, and he spread terror u was f°und later lying stretched
and alarm along the Irish. Welsh and English uP°n the floor overcome by aher-
coast8, u; mP- The dog's experience proved
He chose, however, as the place of direct at- valuab,e- and reconnoitering parties
tack Whitp Haven, where he had lived as a boy of two or three men. selected from !
and a youth, and the masts of whose shipping the 8ixteen forming the main party j
were in sight of his birthplace. He contemplated Were sent ahead to test the air. These
burning all the vessels at the place and looting scoutinS Parties reported that arter-i
the town. David Freeman, deserter from Jones' damP was noticeable in all of the
ship, spread the alarm among the Inhabitants of short-cuts and also in the main slope
the town, and Wallingfc-d. one of Jones' lieu- —
tenants, was slow in carrying out some of bis In- Blow to Liquor Dealers
Four Pellet of
MUNYON'S
DYSPEPSIA
['■eyery/hbiir f*||DC
willfiedf.soothe La Ufill
illul iiivKjoiiite worn oul r?
f |c>.dii<f ivfievr distress
1
John Paul Jones physically was not a heroic
looking flgura. He was only five feet tall and
of light weight, but in his fighting qualities his
ounces counted liko other men's pounds. His
face was grave and thoughtful, and his eves were
as sharp as his cutlass. The fleet in which Jones
sailed rnder Commodore Hopkins was a miser-
able affair, and Hopkins was the weakest of com-
manders. Jones succeeded in Indue ng his supe-
rior to sail for Nassau, where under the direction
of the Junior officer a vast amount of British
stores were selxed. On the way back to tho
United States tho British frigate Glasgow was
sighted, but It escaped the American fleet owing
to the poor seamanship of Hopkins. A court of
Inquiry w.s held, and It was determined that If
Jones' suggestions had been carried out the Glas-
gow could have been captured or sunk. Hopkins
felt disgraced and became a bitter enemy of his
subordinate. 7
=h ™
about to carry out this design a vast arm^H n i . liquor dealer's licenses,
titude appeared. They had been led to tho when it is known that there is an in- 1 I K
bv the deserter. David Freeman Not to"^ tention to violate the prohibition laws ' AdlJra
balked in a part of his desfgn?"on„ ZlJLiS rT ^hereIfr the shipment comes.
in boarding one of the largest merchantmen la ab°Ut 1,200 P^ons
the Solway and applied the torch g federal licenses In the state.
and after a bloody fight he took the British ve£ J
sel and hauled down its colors. He took his prize i
French P°rt The French people were not .
accustomed to naval victories over the English. oklab°ma City. Okla.—Receipts for
let alone to victories won by an inferior force! 'he firSt weok at the rational stock
and the name of Jones at once became the syno- VPrds !,re Kraflfy|nS to the manage-
nym for heroism. " ment and all who are specially inter-
Aftrr spread'ng terror once more along the 1 ested in the great enterprise. Whila
coast of the British Isles. Jones returned to Amer- j lowing the exact number of
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Packers Spent $583,840
w. L. DOUGLAS
hprdoIIswsE° SHOES
BOYS' $8.00, *2.30 Sl $3.00 "
THE STANDARD
FOR 30 YEARS ,
They an absolutely tho
®ost popular and best ahoos
for the price la America.
They are the loaders erery- J
where because Uey hold
their shape, at better,
look better aad wear loa-
fer than other makeo.
r— — -
lea to find the war ended.
Jones « essentially a sailor of fortune and
he went to St. Petersburg, where he was made
an admiral In the Russian navy. On his
thither he stopjwvJ long enoueh In n«n . .
flirt with the princess royal. * ho fell violentlv {n ' v,G"t!lri
lore with him. Thlrtv Cn.ii.k . " . Nicholas
« — —--- l uumuw or
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able. it is almost impossible to more
than approximate the values.
'hey are post ti Tel y the -
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Douglas name and the retail price are si
on the bottom — value ruaraotMd
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Mexican Comes For Prisoners
Guthrie. Okla.—National Senator
M. Beraialuce of the state
love with him. Thirty IBSgltsh offlce^ In ^: *,Ch°U M -a,a>uce of thc .uTe
service of Russia threatened to resign |f the >|! h Coahu)i,f- public of Mexico.
IerH comni'es,0ned. Catharine said- " ^ ° ln ,he Mexic n repub-
You 11 have to double your number to make the I ™nvsponds to a United States
lo« equal to the gain.- They sr.yed !n £ "rived in Guthrie
If .AfleT ginning honors in nav*i battles for .,on.day ,n'Kh' to the claims of
Russta Admiral jones went to Paris There hi MeXlr° tOT.W L ^apman. former
^ l RraTrt and He could have ,rp!arr of the corporation . , mmls
married into the house* of any of the nobllltv "°*- aad four olhe' Oklahomanr
ud oTerTtT0? 8c°'cb ^rl WM ln « «• '"I* !D Mei'CO °° aft' nin* count
lov« u7tn a1Y _1° tb* 'Tc!u*>o® of all other 1, for*Ul* deed* and ***< * to Jan
ua0! iay of his death Dd mon. >s of Kickapoo Indians wh
011*rated from Oklahoma to Mexico.
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Charles E. Hill and Sons. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1910, newspaper, October 14, 1910; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280930/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.