The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-02
"THE LOST LEGION"
NEW FIGHTING FORCE IN THE
WORLDS ARMIES.
At Home in Any Part Of the Earth,
Their Services in Warfare Will
Be of High Value to Coun-
tries Employing Them.

The first fire of new army has
been lighted; the world has new ,,
fighting force, the fighting force of
''the lost legion The legion OF
frontiersmen, says the London Sketch,
have made their first bivcuac, not, in
deed, as they would have wished it, |
under a sky Redeemed by the glare of
battle, but that they might notify in !
time of peace that they will be ready |
in time of strife. They are becoming
an arm of imperial defense and they
aim at being the intelligence branch
of the service when the god of war
calls for sacrifice. They represent the
true frontiersmen, men who have
worked, hunted or fought in wild
countries or at sea, the brotherhood
of the camps. Guerrilla tactics are
second nature to them, and so it is
that they will act as guides, scouts,
pioneers and mobile forces for raiding.
Wherever their numbers are sufficient
they will have a command.
Typical of all are their founder and
| honorary secretary, Frontiersman
Roger Pocock, and the London COM
mandaAt, Mr.. De Hora. Both are born
adventurers-we use the word in it's
older senses, deprecating the fashion
that has distorted the term into mean
ing some form of skunk. Frontiers
man Pocock has been many things.
He was clerk in the cable service, a
laborer on fruit farm and a general
farm in Ontario, insurance clerk, sur
vey hand, boots in hotel or nav
vies, milkman's bookkeeper, log haul
er. railroad NAVY, book agent, peddler
of photographs, dairyman and trooper
in the northwest police-all in two
years. While trooper he took part
in the forced march of az miles day
for seven days frfom Regina to Prince
Albert, in a vain endeavor to prevent
the northwest rebellion, but it was
not his fortune to finish, save under
the Red Cross. Half way he was
frozen and so was invaded with a
pension.
Next he was civil servant, trader,
war correspondent, missionary, sea-
man with Yokohama pirates, robbing
the warehouses of seal rookeries; free
lance journalist to British Columbia,
special correspondent at Kootnay min
ing camp, then a new creation; pho
tographer, keeper of cigar stand,
painter of photographs and newspaper
agent in the Blue mountains. Then
home called and he started as a nov
elist, but it was not long before he
was back in the wilds as a cowboy
in Alberta, gold miner and captain Of
pack train. A little later he placed
to his credit what is probably the
longest lone ride on record-from Fort
Mcleod, Canada, to the City of Mex
ico-3,600 miles of rough country,
covered in 200 days. In the South AT
rican war he was in turn in a loot
Ing corps (unpaid), whose business 1T
was to capture Boer food supplies, and
In the national scouts. His most re-
cent expedition was up the west coast
of Greenland.
Mr. De Hora, the well-known mining
engineer, who was born on a stock
ranch in California and brought up as
a bowboy, has a unique record in that
at the early age of % he stole bat
tlship He had been before the mast,
pearling in the south seas, and, scent
ing further adventure, he threw in his
lot with a revolutionary leader and,
, aided by boats crew speedily gath
cred together, contrived to steal the
war vessel Huascar from Peru.
In her he committed piracy on the
high seas by stopping a British tramp
steamer, with the result that he had
to fight H. M. S. Shah. He was badly
beaten, but escaped only to find it
necessary to surrender to the ruling
government. His next expedition,
made in partnership with the former
revolutionary leader, ended in the dis
covery of the famous Maghellan treas
ure-$2, 100000 in sunken Spanish
galleon of the seventeenth century
spoil promptly confscated by a
schooner sent by the Argentine gov
eminent, whose capital Mr.. De Hora
entered little later at the head OF
300 cowboys from the Rio Negro. II
was he also who led Col. North's ex
ploring expedition from Brazil to
Ecuador. Thus adventure followed ad
venture until the South African war
broke out. At that time he was acting
as mining engineer in Johannesburg
and, seeing the state the city was
likely to get into, he raised a corps o.
600 neutrals to act as armed police
These did their work until the arrival
of Lord Roberts, when their organizer
formally handed over the place to the
care of Capt. Walter Kirton, also, by
the way, of the London command
Surely a difficult record to eclipse.