People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Giant Powder in Their Boots. [ARTICLE]

Giant Powder in Their Boots.

It is a curious fact that n» one miner out of every hundred who hisu had any experience will do anything but put the sticks of giant powder into his bootlegs He knows just about how much giant powder he will need during the shift, and this he receives before he enters the shafthouse to go down. Then he carefully places it in the leg of his boot, and in this manner conveys it into the mine. The miners have stopped “crimping” the fulminating caps with their teeth of late years. This is duo, probably, to the suicide at Chicago of Lingg one of the anarchists who was sentenced to be hanged with Spies and the rest. Lingg exploded one of the caps by biting it and blew most of his head off. Now the majority of the miners crimp the cap on the heel of their bool with a knife.—The Great Divide.