St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-20
CAPT. FRANK JONES.
A Brave Texas Ranger Who Has
Done Good service.
Globe-Democrat. .

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The recent killing of Capt. Frank
Jones, of Company ID, Texas rangers, by
! border vultures in PresidIo county, has
caused deep sorrow throughout the
state, and particularly in San Antonio,
| Tex, where the dead nero had hundreds
OF warm personal friends and almiring
/ acquaintances. Capt. Jones is cunsid-
| cred To have been one of the best olfi-
| GERS i'll lne Texas ranger service. He
| was man of excellent judgment and
| In,!omltable zeal, and blended courage
and bravery harmOniouSly. He was
| possessed of all the attributes that 60 to
make the best specimen of Texas ranger
Ernest St Leon. better known by the
i name of "Dlamond Dick" member of
Capt. Jones' company, is now in San
Antonio OH leave of absence. In
speaking To the Globe-DemOcrat cor
respondent concerning his late com
nahding officer, Mr.. St. Leon said: II
| loved Capt. Jones like brother. He
was one of the best shots ever saw. 1t
was an easy thing for him to hit piece
! of money or a cartridge hull thrown
into the air. He was always COOL and
deliberate. but at the Same time quick
! to act. Our company of hangers has
been stationed III what is known as the
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anu Capt. Jones and his men nave gone
through a number of eXcit NJ expert
enceS, and number OF lives have been
lost.
I'm the month of April, 1890, Charley
FeSSelman, a sergeant of Capt. Jones'
company, was murdered from ambush
by the same band of outlaws who killed
the captain few days ago. After this
foul assassination The Mexican despera-
does grew more bold in their depreda-
tions. That entire tOu iry seemed
nest OF robbers and cht-tnroats, and the
situation had not improved any when
Capt. Jones and his SIX men received
the order 10 capture the bloody BosQue
gang.
"A band of these Mexican outlaws
rode into the town of Shafter. which is
a mining camp situated in PreSidio
county, one evening III the month of
August, 1891. and started to sack the
place. They shot at every living thing
in sight, and had the whole population
of the town i'll state of intimidation
and terror, when Walter Graves, mem-
Der of Capt. Jones company. and Ii.
g. Lee, deputy United States marshal,
pitched into the robbers. The fight was
a desperate one, and resulted IN the
killing of Graves and the wounding of
Lee. The outlaws were driven off,
however, and the lives of the citizens
and the property of the town pro-
tected.
1.-The detachment to which l be-
ionged killed, on Jan. II, 1892, Matildo
Curasco, one of three desperate BROTH
ers. who had wounded deputy sher-
itf. We also, at the same fight, killed a
Mexican outlaw named Jose Nieto, and
third whose name l do not rememb er.
Another brother of Curasco was kill led
by Capt. Jones' company a few DAYS
later. In arOther engagement with
these robbers and sInugglers, which
took place short time after the Killing
r-of CuraScO, two members of our COM
pany were seriously wound ed, and we
killed a desperate named Gillen."
Capt. Jones and his company were
sent in pursuit OF the Sou CherE Pacific
train robbers two years ago this month.
The robbery occurred at HOrshoe Bend,
aud the brave rangers followed them
several hundred miles SthrOugh the
rough mountains of the Bloody penin-
sula. The robbers were finally run to
earth, but did not surrender without
making desperate fight, in which two
of the gang were killed by Capt. Jones
and his men. The other three robbers
were tried and convicted. They are
serving long terms of Imprisonment in
the penitentiary at Saltwater. Minn.
Capt. Jones was thirty-Seven years of
age when he met with his untimely