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beveclSoryntstr-ine-e-k?aIv»-le-it10From Ocean to Ocean.Watson the great walker was in our city Saturday last and re -maincd here over night. He left San Francisco on the 2‘2nd of December to walk to New York in 175 days against time, a distance of 4,482 miles, by the way of the Oregon and California railroadto Portland, Oregon, then- by the lr. P., from Portland to Ashland,, , Wisconsin, by the Wisconsin Cen-_jtral to Chicago, then over the P. F. W. and C. It. IP, to New York. He lias been out 132 days up to dateand has still a distance of 773 miles to make to New York and 43days in which to complete it. Watson’s average has been 30 miles a dav. Pie registers in every•' c? %/telegraph office on the route, lie . | has the signature of over 1,500 I agents and operators that he has ^ met on his long and wearisomewalk. IVatson says that the most hardships lie has met with has been in the Hungry Mams Canyonin Oregon, were the Chinese would n' not give or sell him any thing to eat and in Montana where he came l,J near freezing to (Path, by an acci-'e dent which destroyed a box car \ Y telegraph office by lire, when the0 thermometer registered 14 degrees below zero and he had to sleep out in the snow. When Watson left ie San Francisco he did not have a ) cent of money and as he expresses 16 it not even a ‘'chew of tobacco” and j j 10 to get through the country the best * way he could. The prizes which j* f he is walking for amount to 82,500 j * ,° in cash and the Long Distance!1Championship Diamond Medal of | \ 0 the world, to he given to him b the Richard K. Fox Police Gaaette,w)!*11r10*1-l if he reaches New York on or be-r-. fore the 15th day of June at 10 a. D m. He feels confident of winning,sitnow.lt;€
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Fort Wayne Weekly Breeze
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, May 09, 1895
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