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Show Heavy Fine Assessed. PARK CITY, July 29. M. D. Hurlbut was up before the juvenile court today, charged with selling tobacco to minors. He was found guilty as charged and sentenced sen-tenced to pay a fine of $50. 1 After a transcontinental tour of 7000 miles in their big Pierce-Arrow car, with three punctures and two blowouts, and an entire absence of all other trouble, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Freed returned to Salt Lake ton days ago after a highly interesting motor car tour of a great deal of tho Pacific coast country. Leaving Salt Lake, April 2.1, Mr. and Mrs. Kllis Freed drove their big Pierce-Arrow Pierce-Arrow touring car through to Los Angeles, An-geles, and then went to San Diego. Ee-turning Ee-turning to Los Angeles they drove to San Francisco and lrom the latter point through the Yosemite valley and back to San Francisco. It. was Mr. Freed 's original intention to cover all of tho national parks in the west and from the Yellowstone drive through to1 Denver, Colo., and then return re-turn to Salt Lake. After 7000 miles of Pacific coast touring, however, he found rood conditions in Oregon and Washington so bad as to make the mountain passes impossible to negotiate, and, after encountering such trifling featured fea-tured as seventeen feet of snow in some of the passes, ho returned to Salt Lake. Despite the fact that Mr. Freed has made one or two previous trips of this nature in his present Pierce-Arrow car, with a minimum amount of trouble, he declares that his recently completed tour of 7000 miles, with an entire absence ab-sence of engine or motor trouble of any description, with the exception of three punctures and two blowouts, is the most pleasurable trip he lias made. "The big Pierce beats all the Pullman Pull-man traveling I have ever done," declared de-clared Mr. Freed yesterday, in commenting com-menting on his trip'. "We "never raised the hood of the car except to put in oil." After doing the Y'osemite vallev, Mr. and Mrs. Freed left San Francisco and drove through central Oregon to Crater lake. They sent the big Pierce within six miles of the rim of the lake and then eleven feet of snow turned them back. They followed the Columbia highwav from The Dalles down to Portland, and Mr. Freed declares that this ninetv-fivo ninetv-fivo miles of highway is the most picturesque pic-turesque section of road that he has ever traveled. Fortv-five miles of the road is paved and the road follows the Columbia river, sometimes dipping to the river level and then again nsing to a point 2000 feet above the river. Mr. Freed declares the road troubles started at Seattle, where one mountain moun-tain pass they tried carried seventeen feet of snow. Thev turned back' to Seattle, drove down to Portland in the rain, on to Cottage Grove, Ore., in a constant downpour of rain, and when they arrived at Cow Creek pass thev found thirtv-two cars waiting to go through. Mr. Freed turned ' his car back to Cottage Grove and then drove to Medford, Ore., and back to San Francisco. From San Francisco Mr. and Mrs. Freed returned home bv the Lincoln highway. The trip took' three months, lacking five days. |