The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-30

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Neither OF these challenges were sac-
| copied, and Ralph was set down as a
| coward, afraid to risk his life in hon
orable dueIs with gentlemen. In 1927.
while studying law in st. Gensvieye.
Jones was himself challenged by an
overhasty young army officer, Lieuten-
ant Williams OF South Carolina. He
promptly accepted, and all the arrange
ments were perfected, when the leu
tenant, being the aggTessor, apOlogized,
and the affair was declared IF. Later
in the same year Jones served as Gee
ond in bloodless duel between Thomas
W. Newton and Ambrose H. Severe.
Newton was then secretary OF Missouri
territory and afterward became a con-
gresham from Arkansas. Severe wds
also subsequently, elected to congress
from Arkansas and later was appointed
minister 10 Mexico.
HISTORIC CLLEY DUELS.
But the greatest duel in which Cen
eral Jones was connected was the his
torical conflict in 1888 between Cfllay Of
Maine and Graves Of Kentucky. near
the Marlborough road, outside of Wash
ington, growing out Of a heated DEBATE
in congress. In that debate Ciiiey charg-
ed that, according 10 newspaper re-
ports, James Watson Webb, editor Of
the New York Courier and Inquirer
the man who gave the name Wing TO
the Wing party-had accepted a oribe.
Webb arrived in Washington that even
ing, and, hearing of the incident. sent
a letter 10 Cil,ey in regard TO il by the
hand Of Graves Cilley declined 10 re-
ceive the letter, vfhereupon Henry Clay
surrounded by squad OF admiring
Wings. declared that the refusal to re-
ceive 1t was personal insult TO Graves.
Graves, though close friend of Cilley.
was then prevailed on to challenge
Cilley, naming rifles as the desirable
weapons. Through the influence OF
Franklin Pierce. then a congressman,
General Jones was induced TO act as
Cflley's second. Three rounds were
fired, and on the third round Cilley fell
dead. The hubbub that ensured in con-
gress and throughout the country was
extraordinary. An investigation was
ordered, which, after long and Animal
ed debate. resulted in the passage OF
stringent laws characterizing dueling
as murder. General Jones and many
others directly or remotely concerned
in the tragedy Were defeated for re-
elected by their constituents that year.
In 1850 General Jones again acted AS
o second, this time TO General John c.
Fremont, who had challenged Senator
Foote Of Mississippi on the field of hon.
or, but the duel was never fought.
Eight years later Jones carried a chal-
lenge once more from Senator Dodge Of
Wisconsin to Colonel William Selden,
formerly treasurer OF the United States
under jackson and Van Buren,, but the
quarrel was compounded, and the duel
did not take place.
SENT AS MINISTER TO BOGOTA.
Four days after General Jones' term |
as senator expired, March s. 1859, Pres !
ident Buchanan nominated him as min |
lister to Bogota. After President Lin |
coins Inaugural ton he was recalled. and |
right here comes a strange chapter OF |
General Jones history.
In May. 1861, while still in Bogota, |
and thinking, in the absence of any in |
formation TO the contrary, that Jeffer- |
son Davis was still United States SEN
ator. he wrote to him S an old friend, |
requesting his good offices in the de- |
sired promotion Of his son, VINO had |
been appointed second lieutenant in
the calvary service by President Pierce.
This letter was transmitted with official
dispatches to the state department,
after Davis had become president of
he Southern Confederacy The letter
was accordingly intercepted and held
At the state department, and, under the
peculiar circumstances, its contents
were naturally misconstrued by the
powers in authority. Returning 10
America, Jones arrived in Washington,
December ), 1861, saw his old friends,
President Lincoln and Secretary Sew
lrd. was cordially received at the White
House by the president, and was ac-
corded diploma tic dinner by the sec
etary of state in the mansion later oc-
,upied by James G. Blaine, facing La
ayette square.
ARRESTED IN NEW YORK.
At the state Experimentation in the
rea sury building-December ls, Gener-
u Jones babe goodbye TO Seward who.
n parting, pledged him over bottle OF
vine, and then took a train 10 New
York with his niece, intending to pro-
eed thence TO his home in Iowa Ar
living at New York he went at once 20
he New York hotel and registered Be-
ore laying down the pen and leaving
he clerks, he was summarily arrested.
nd next day conducted before Chief (
4 Detectives Kennedy. That functino-
rvs only explanation OF the arrest
vas conveyed by the production OF a
elegraph tape, on which was written
his dispatch:
Washington, n C. Dec. 10 1851
20 the chief OF detectives New York
'ity: Hon. George W. Jones, return
ng minister from South America.
caves here for the New York hotel. Ar
est him and send him to Fort Lafay-
tie William II. Seward"
No charge was specified against Cen
raj Jones. but. nevertheless. ne was
.onfined for sixty-four days AZ Fort
lafayette "a political prisoner. and .
is said that no explanation has TO this
ay been given or Secretary SewaTd's
onduct in the matter.
This was the close OF George Wallace |
ones public life, and This the reward
e received for forty years Of inestim-
Bile service 10 his country. But at the
nd Of more thar thirty years congress
tempted 10 repair in some measure
he wrong that had been done by grant
ng him a pension-for services as a
RUNNER boy in 1914. and as aid 10 Gen
raj Dodge in 1S32-of SO per month
rhich with sevenry-eiEht years back .
ay. the sum % $S.7e0. This was in /
lay. 1899: IN December following on
he settlement OF his accounts as min
ser 20 Bogota both houses OF congress
awarded him go per diam :
Or TIE sixty-fou- days during which (
e was wrongfuliy imprisoned in Fort
lafayette. But further. almost IN
arsileled honor was accorded him on
Lpril u. 1sSi-the occa sion OF his s0tl
the state OF Iowa, which
aen gave him a public reception and
anquet, presided over by the governor,
I'd attendei By both houses q the ley- !
stature. the executive council. the
liges OF the supreme court and ne