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Show iSjSKm IDAHO MAN BEATS NORTHERN PACIFIC hHH train with automobile. I pffliflB J w- Kettenbach, a prominent banker and I IhIH grain dealer of Lewlston, Idaho, sot a new mark w liSK on an alliomoMlG ruu between Moscow, Idaho, m Ww&BMBi and Spokane, Wash., last month, making the dia- I ''' ili9Hm ' tance, a little more than 92 miles, in four hours 9flH and 50 minutes. With 25 minutes' start on the R mH Northern Pacific railway's Moscow special, ho ar- W BH rived at Hotel Spokane five minutes before the I i'lfljffil lyer rGaclietl tne Northern Pacific depot, at 11:30 A 'ill SH Mr. Kettenbach was accompanied by his wife j 'SB anti motner and chauffeur and mechanic. They m '' jflH rode in a heavy touring car of 40 horse power, h iQfjHR and the race was exciting from' the time the train H j'jf jH caught up with the gasoline wagon until Spangle B "pIIB was rGacllGtl- There the automobile drew ahead I ''-ftffiSBi V Tlie automoljlle started from Moscow at 6:35 K tiilB o'clock a. m. and the train left the depot in the I -'hhHK Idaho town on spot at 7 o'clock. The car was v!'i9HBl overtaken between Palouse and Garfield at a point k 'ftfiflHB where the wagon road parallels the railroad for 8 ffalHH several miles. There the race started. It was m ffBM exciting, and the passengers in the train man- I fllfflBH ifested the liveliest 'interest, cheering the driver I 'f(fHHBB when he. gained with the big machine spinning rw ' ''"IHHIBi along the road at a 25 mile an hour clip. H ''SiKB Windows in the smoker and day coaches were H ' !' illlfflH thrown open when the chauffeur put on the high B ' iiraH speed and handkerchiefs were waved at the cloud I ' HHbS f dUSt wh,cl1 folIowed in tlle trail of tllG alltomo" B v(HflB ,Tust as tlie racers WGrG nearing Garfield, Gus B sllwBflH Bowman, the engineer pulling the Moscow special, I tJ'HIH torG tlie aIr wIth snri11 whistling, and the fireman H l-faflfli tugged at the bellrope and the passengers shouted H t'TSB Bowman, alert with eyes on the stretch of I ' ''iB9lflHH track ahead, made a bid for the crossing a mile B ''I' BIHH from Garfloltl and made it successfully, the last B '-I IKBS! ca' navlnS passed by 10 feet when the front wheel H I IhBK f th b'S tourIne car struck the planlcs and wlliz H 'lfjfBHH The passengers were on their feet, believing EE JhRhIR that a collislon was 'inevitable, but the chauffeur H 'ilfflHffll never blinked behind his smoked glass goggles B flBBBi and in tho Iiext mile tlie car gaine(1 al)0ut a dozen B v BBB yards. He maintained the lead and ran into B '"'llBBBI Garfield ahead of the train. B f-'llBlBHF Between Garfield and Spangle the race was B 'IRflnBw pllot to uasnboard the passengers saying it was B dtliliflK tne most finished piece of jockeying they ever !l ' ''muMBBm saw outsIclG n raco track. i'iiHBB ljeats any Roman hippodrome race I ever milB saw a the Wg three-ring show," said one of the OR passengers. "It was real' going." -'l$iflBH After passing Spangle the courses separated, IliiRBfll but the car bowled into Spokane at least five min- VBBI utos before regular schedule time of the Moscow ' ii J11BBB train, which was reported In at 11:30 o'clock. |