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Show . -av. . ON A LONG TRAMP. J. Edwin Stone, tlie pedestrian, on his way across Ihcjcontinent arrived lnO(fdn ai urtlay evening. Mr. Monc related his expi i : I enos since leaving San Francisco, which lie ! did at midnight, February 'J2nd. He has averaged miles per day, which brings hint b re ut 1:2 m. today (11 hours ahead of lime. The distance to Ogden from the Starting point is s:!ii miles, as he has walked if, or a fraction less than one-fourth the (lis tance the entire journey. Up to date Stone has lost only six and one-half pounds: he is I lu the best trim aud spirits and hopes, if nothing happens to him, to make New York ( his destination iu 158 days. As his daily r schedule time" is sjl l9 miles, he certainly ! stands a good show of getting through Within the JTB days allotted. Mr. Stone is inakiuirthistourHfo.pl upder the auspicies of the PoUa OaatU snd will eel $."(iou if he UCCCedl within the specified time and $1111.1) I it he gets through at all. He is accompan-1 accompan-1 led bj (ieorge i'. Simms, who joined him at Reno, Nevada. At every telegraph station I be i- required to report by wire to tho Oa-I Oa-I j mUt ollice in New York. 1 - a . |