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Their five dogs had been left in the leaking dory, which was trailing behind us, the boat was swamping, and the animals were almost drowned. They were whining, crying, and soaking wet; so the "Elk" was again stopped, the dogs taken on board, along with some of the miners' outfits, and we again started on our way.

All the troubles usually pursuant on a long strike began to fall upon the families of the miners. When a delegation from the miners' union came to discuss the situation with Harley he met them blandly, with many platitudes of sympathy. He regretted he regretted exceedingly the necessity that had been forced upon him of closing the mines.

The Indians had lately committed many serious depredations along the Black Hills trail. Gold had been discovered there in many new places, and the miners, many of them tenderfoots, and unused to the ways of the red man, had come into frequent conflict with their new neighbors.

On the 25th September, the opening day of the Loos battle, the left of the British attack had been directed against "Fosse 8" a coal mine with its machine buildings, miners' cottages and large low slag dump protected by a system of trenches known as the "Hohenzollern Redoubt," standing on a small rise 1,000 yards west of the mine.

One of these I can relate almost in the very words of the man himself to whom the incident occurred; and it was only an ordinary digger's tale. "My mates and I," he said, "were camped in a gully with some forty or fifty other miners. It was a little quiet place, a long way from any township.

It was conceived in that spirit of rough resistance which local unions of miners, for some years before the amalgamation of the unions, had opposed to the ruthless and firm determination of the mine owners. In 1897, the president of the miners, after quoting the words of the Constitution of the United States giving citizens the right to bear arms, said: "This you should comply with immediately.

"But, I suppose," he continued hypocritically, "that we shouldn't blame the men who have put their money in the mines. They are only wanting a fair interest on their investment. That's only right. No doubt they send money enough right into Bitumen to have things kept up first-class, better houses for the miners, and cables that don't break.

He spoke about things that reached not only the understanding but also the feelings of plain men. About the same time, Whitefield was preaching to the miners near Bristol. As he eloquently told them the story of salvation he brought tears to the eyes of these rude men and made many resolve to lead better lives.

Hop had to answer a lot of questions, but he managed to make it plain to the miners what was wanted of them, so in a few minutes they were marching for the pass. The Chinaman rode on ahead and soon came to the spot where he had left Charlie, Jim and Arietta. But they were not there now, and, thinking that they had ascended the cliff again, he decided to go on in the cave.

General Twiggs, in his official report, says: "To Lieutenant G. W. Smith, of the engineers, who commanded the company of sappers and miners, I am under obligations for his services on this and on other occasions.