Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-19


the Providence, but quickly left astern. The
British ship kept firing at the Yankee long after
it was out of range In contempt sand deris1on OF
this act of the British captain, and knowing that
his actions were being watched through a glass;
Jones ordered single sailor to stand at the stern
and shoot squsket at the pursuer every time ne
fred his big low chaser.
After se1to:.s trouble with the jealous Hop
kins, Jones vas finally given command OF the
Ranger eighteen. guns. He took number OF
prizes on the va%, and finally put into French
port. At Paris he. met the American commission
ers, Silas Dean, benjamin Franklin and Arthur
Lee, and they secu2ed him an audience at the
French court. BY request he aided in planning
the operations OF DK'staing's feet, which was
shortly to leave for America
The heroic aghting career of Jones was just
about to begin, though with the fame that he won
in the next few months came the undying hatred
Of all the people of his native country, and there
came also the loss of the only woman he ever
loved, and whom he had hoped one day to make
his WIFE British privateers had ravaged the
American coast had seized American merchan-
disc and had burned some American towns Jones
believed in making reprisals and he spread terror
and alarm along the Irish, Welsh and English
coasts.
He chose, however, as the place of direct at
tack White Haven, where he had lived as a boy
and youth, and the masts of whose shipping
were In sight Of his birthplace He contemplated
burning FL the vessels at the place and 1ooting
the town David Freeman, deserter from JONES'
ship, spread the alarm among the Inhabitants of
the town. ana Wallingford one of Jones' lieu
tenants, was s0eg in carrying out some of his in.
structions. AS il was, however, the expatrfated
Scotsman succeeded in capturing one Of the forts
which guarded the place. leading the land attack
in person. With his own hand he spiked every
gun In the fortihcaton, and then turned his atten
ton to the firing of the shipping. AS he was
about to carry out this design a vast armed null
ttude appeared. They had been led to the scene
by the deserter, David Freeman. Not to be-
baked in part of his design, Jones succeeded
in boarding one of the largest merchantmen In
the Solway and applied the torch.
The Ranger had no sooner put out from tho
Solway than it ran across the British man-of-war
Drake. The Drake was by far the heavier armed
and manned and better equipped vessel than
the Ranger. Jones, however, gave battle at once
and after bloody fight he took the British YES
sci and hauled down it's colors He took his nrize
into French port. The French people were not
accustomed to naval victories over the English
let alone to victories by an inferior force
and the name of Jones at once became the svno.
nym for heroism.
After spreading terror once more along the
coast of the British Isles, Jones returned to Amer
lea to find the war ended.
Jones was essentially sailor of fortune and
he went to st. Petersburg, where he was mada
an admiral in the Russian navy On hfs wav
th1ther he stopped long enough in Denmark tn
h1rt with the princess royal who fell violently in
love with him. Thirty English officers IN tho
service of Russia threatened to resign if the nj
rate" were commissioned. Catharine said,
you'll have to double your number to mako tho
loss equal to the gain" They stayed in the =erv.
Ice. After winning honors in naval hatt1ea IN,
Russia Admiral Jones went to Paris There ha
was alternately grave and gay. He could have
married into the houses of any of the nobility
but the memory of Scotch girl was in his heat
and there it stayed to the exclusion Of all other
loves until the day of his DEATH