Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas. Hon. James K. Jones, of Arkansas, is one of the youngest members of the United States Senate. He w’as bom in Marshall County, Sept. 29, 1839, and is therefore but a little more than 46 years of a e. His father emigrated to Arkansas in 1848, and the son received his education at select schools and under private tutors. He was a private soldier during the “late unpleasantness” on the losing side; lived ou his plantation after the close

of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law. He was chosen a member of the Arkansas State Senate in 1873, to fill a vacancy; was re-elected in 1874, and was made President of that body. In 1880 he was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortyeighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was recognized as the ablest member of the Arkansas delegation. He was elected to the Senate to succeed James D. Walker, and took his seat March 4, 1885. His term of service will expire March 3, 1891. Captain Emmet Crawford. A resolution was recently introduced iu the Senate of the United States directing tlie Secretaries of State and War to inquire and report to the Senate tlie facts concerning the killing of Capt. Emmet Crawford, of the United States army, who was slain Jan. 10, 1886, by Mexican troops. Should it be proved that the Mexican troops intentionally attacked the United States forces, the matter will at once assume a

serious aspect, as so gross an insult could never be passed without full and ample explanations.

Capt. Crawford was born in Philadelphia, and in the early days of 1861 enlisted as a private in Company F of the Seventy-first Pennsylvania Regiment. He was honorably discharged July 2, 1864. He immediately after this again entered the army as First Sergeant in the One Hundred and Ninetyseventh Pennsylvania Regiment, and subsequently served as Lieutenant in the Thirteenth United States Colored Regiment. In 1865 he was brevetted Captain for bravery, and from February, 1866, till May, 1867, served as Lieutenant in the Thirty-seventh United States Colored Regiment. In 1868 he was made First Lieutenant of the Thirtyninth Infantry, and a year later was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Infantry. In 1871 he was assigned to the Third Cavalry, and iu 1879 was made Captain. He had for years served under General Crook, and was considered one of the most efficient Indian fighters in the service. He was for some time in charge of the Apache Reservation. The affair in which he was killed took place on Mexican soil, about two hundred miles from the border line. The Mexicans lost several men in the engagement.