Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-26
WAR GOVERNOR IF ARKANSAS DIES 4
 LITTLE RICK i0ME
Hon. Daniel w. Jones Answers the Great Call and Passes Over the River Yesterday

and former attorney general Of Ar l kansas, died at his residence. HOO | Louisiana street, at ll:3C o'clock i Christmas morning, following an il- nnSs of 10 days duration. Funeral service will be held at the residence at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoons; 1 burial in Oakland cemetery.
 ! Former Governor Jones had been critically i'll for several days, and his death was not unexpected. Most of his immediate relatives were with him when he passed away.
 [ The body was being prepared for burial by Healy and Roth.
 Services at the home and at the grave will be conducted by Bishop Winchester. Confederate veterans of the Omar Weaver Camp, No. 354, 1 will. under an order issued by Gen cral J. R. Gibbons. commander at tend in a body. meeting at the resi- dencc. The order instructed veterans to wear their confederate uniforms if possible.
 Pallbearers will be: Honorary, General B. w. Green. Col. J. H. Shoppnach, Colonel Theo Hartman. Gen. J. k. Gibbons of BauXitc. Col. ! 4. J. Snodgrass, General J. D. Wood, Dr. A. B. Sholars and the Rev. John II Dye, of SaarcY; active. Dr. w. c. Ratepoan, Earl Green, F. J. Pittman
 Frank Ginocchio, l.. C. Holman and Dan D. Quinn.
 Governor Jones is survived by two sons and two daughters. Claudieus i Jones. Mrs. E. w. Holman, Miss Bob bic N. Jones and Dr. Dan w. Jones, .Jl.. four grandchildren, Mrs. D. D.
 Leach of Minneapolis. Minn., Lieut. ! D. Webster Jones, with the expedi-
 tionary forces in France, Gabriella B. Jones and Gloria M. Jones, and one great-grandchild, Babilee Leach
 Governor Jones' History. 1 Governor Jones 'was inaugurated
 before the legislature January IS,
 1897, for term of two years. He was born in Bowie county.
 When he was at an early age his 1 father. Dr. Isaac N Jones. came to Arkansas and located at Washington , where Governor Jones grew up, stud ! jed law and was admitted to the bar At the outbreak of the war he enlist ed in the Confederate army and serv- l ed with distinction therein, becoming l colonel of the Twentieth Arkansas infantry.
 He was severely wounded at the | battle of Corinth, Miss.
 He was attorney general for two terms. from 1885 to 1889. He was elected governor a second time in ! 1898. for a term running to Janu- i 10l1 of l
 vice as governor he entered into the
 practice of law at Little Rock. He
 was particularly active and efficient in the organization and mastering of the two regiments which Arkansas furnished in the Spanish war; Gov ernor Jones married, in Hamburg
 Ark, Miss Margaret P. Hadley Mrs
 Jones died five years ago.
 Was War Governor.
 A highly important matter during
 the administration of Governor Jones
 was the war with Spain. In conse.
 auence of the long continued oppres. sions of Cuba by Spain, the United
 States, as a means of freeing Cuba
 declared war against Snain, April 21
 1898. A call for volunteers was
 made bv President Mckinley (receiv
 ed April 25), the quota for Arkansas
 being 200O men.
 These were speedily raised. the Ar
 l'ansss troops beipo among the very first to be enrolled and enter ser
 vice. Governor Jones was active ant energetic in bringing this resul
 ahont. Two regiments were formed of 100n men each. The First regi
 ment. Colonel Elias Chandler. com manding. WaS mustered in Nav 20 1 the Second Regiment. Colonel Virgi l.. Cook. commandiro the muster was completed hv May 25. 30 day!
 after the presidents call. These
 regiments were gathered at Cam
 Dodge. on the outskirts of Little Rock. and were transported to Cam } George H. Thomas at Chicamaug;
 Park. Ga The Second Regiment wa! moved to Camp Shipp. at Anniston
 Ala. for winter quarters.
 l Neither regiment was sent for ac ], tive service in Cuba the war beine 7 sneedilv terminated by the brilliant ; victories of the American arms or , land and sna. The First Regimen l was returned to Fort Logan H. Roots } in the latter part of Sentember. 1898 being mustered out October 25. Tht ; Second Reoiment was mustered ou } at Camp Shipp, February 25. 1899 These regiments were as fine soldier: l as went into the war from any state al ! were sneciallv commended in : lio1At resolution of the senate ant house of the legislation of Arkansa
 March 9. 1899.
 For the mobilization of these troop , TO annronriation was available. Of fers Of lonns of funds were made Q, various citizens and corporations. Up : pn 2 nonfore-re between covarno . Jones and the Arkansas RanEers' As sociaticn StOnnO wos advanced hv l then,. the barNes Of the e~sociatic, advancir~ in proportion to their cani