The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1906-11-14
"THE LOST LEGION"
NEW FIGHTING FORCE IN THE
WoKLD's ARMIES.
At Home in Any Part of the Earth.
Their Services in Warfare viii
Be Of High Value to coun.
tries Employing Them.

The first fire OF a new army has
been lighted the world has new
fighting force. the fighting force OF
the lost legion" The legion of
irontiersmen, says the London Sketch,
have made their first bivouac. 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 raidlng.
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.
mandant, Mr.. DE Hora. Both are born
adventurers-w use the word in its
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 a fruit farm and general
farm in Ontario, insurance clerk, sur
yey hand. boots" in a hotel or nav.
vies, milkman's bookkeeper, log haul
or, railroad NAVY. book agent. peddler
Of photographs, dairyman and trooper
In the northwest pollce-all In two
years. While trooper he took part
in the forced march OF ~ miles a 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
pension
Next he was civil servant trader
war correspondent missionary. sea
man with Yokohama pirates. robbng
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 nov.
elist, but II was not long before he
was back in the wllds as cowboy
in Alberta gold miner and captain of
a 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-3.60 miles of rough country,
covered In 200 days In the South AZ.
rican war he was In turn In a loot.
ing corps (unpaid). whose business It
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 stock
ranch in California and brought up as
a bowboy. has a unique record In that
at the early age of 20 he stole bat.
tlship. He had been before the mast.
pearllng in the south seas. and, scent
ing further adventure, he threw in his
lot with a revolutionary leader and,
aided by a boats crew speedily gath,
cred together cOntrlved to steal the
war vessel Huascar from Peru.
In her he committed piracy on the
high seas by stopping British tramp
steamer. with the result that he had
to fight II. NJ. S. Shah. He was badly
beaten. but escaped, only to find II
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-s2, 100000 in a 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 a little later at the head OF
300 cowboys from the Rio Negro. II
was he also who led Col North's ex.
plorlng expedition from Brazil to
Ecuador. Thus adventure followed adj
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
ukely TO get into. he raised corps of
500 neutrals to act as armed police.
These did their work until the arrival
NJ Lord Roberts. when their organizer
formally handed over the place the
care OF Capt. Walter Kirton, by
the way, of the London com I'd.