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Show ENDS HIKE OF 10,000 MILES Young Prohibition Lecturer Joins Expedition Ex-pedition in Chase of Villa Bandits. St. Paul, Minn. One of tho Interesting Interest-ing figures nt the recent Prohibition convention here was Laurence P. Me- "77 ,"i$2"' -f 3e ,- w t ""Sal; Guhuii, tv.enty-two years old, and u Prohibition lecturer. McGaban nr-rlved nr-rlved here nfter a "hike" of 10,000 miles. Tho young hiker was plodding plod-ding along a road S2 miles porth of Columbus. N. M., when ho learned of the mid on thnt town by Villa and his bandits. He Joined a sheriff's posse and n detachment of tho state militia scouting for Vllln. He accompanied tho punitive force fnr Into the Mexican Mexi-can desert nnd -later returned with them. "A typo of bush growing on the desert In Mexico," he says, "resembles "resem-bles a horse and rider, nnd severnl times wo wero deluded Into believing we had sighted tho bandit chief. Even the sheriff shot nt a bush which he thought was a Villa bandit." McGnhan wore out six pairs of shoes on his wulklng trip. |