This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... of operations, gaining, by actual experience, a correct knowledge of the shape aui character of the country, the towns, villages, patches, collier jes, creeks and rivers, mountains and ravines, so that, in the performance of their work, they might have no trouble in fimling their route, without inquiry, from one place ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... of operations, gaining, by actual experience, a correct knowledge of the shape aui character of the country, the towns, villages, patches, collier jes, creeks and rivers, mountains and ravines, so that, in the performance of their work, they might have no trouble in fimling their route, without inquiry, from one place to another, even in the darkness of night. Two men were sent to Locust Run, two to Boston Colliery, and two to Tunnel Colliery. Mr. Linden received a commission, showing that he was given full control of these policemen. Among the anangements was a cipher for communicating with General Pleasants, and badges for the men to wear. Mr. Linden--or Captain Linden, as he was soon to be called--made a visit to Ashland on the eighth, where he tarried for several dayi gaining such information as might prove of value during the summer. At Ashland, on the fourteenth, he was introduced to his assistants, chosen from the Coal and Iron Police, by Mr. Heisler, and found them of the right class, the majority having served with honor as soldiers during the war. Soon afterward the Captain was made acquainted with Barney Dolan, of Big Mine Run, which is not far from Ashland. In the meantime, McKenna had visited Ashland, and meeting Linden privately at a hotel, they adjourned to a place where they conversed over a social gla-s of beer. It did not consume many minutes to agree upon a means of communication and a point in the bush wlrere, the propel signal being given by either party, they might subsequently beet and hold private discourse. It was so fixed that one could send a letter to the other without the possibility of any third person suspecting their correspondence. There was only one thing that seemed impossible to be provided for and guarded against. ...
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