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Show SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD WALKER TAKES REST PLACKMVILLE. Cal., Aug. 10. William Samuel Chapman. 7"i years old, loafed hrc today on his transcontinental wtilk from Baltimore, Mil., for a purse of $"nuo put up by the New York Jockey chin. He aid he could afford lo tarry, as one bv one he had left hnhind him three sialwart men between the ages of 2o and 3) yours, who found the old man's pace too" fast and dropped out at Omaha, Chevcnne and Salt l,:iUe City. Chapman is from Milllngton. Conn. lie walked all the way from Baltimore over the Lincoln national highway and will resume his .lourney to the edge of the Bacilli- Monday. |