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Show GREAT FEAT OF RUNNER. Covered Six Hundred Miles' In Five Days Over the Roughest Kind of Country. n Tito Tnrahumarcs, a great trlbo of tho northern Storra Jlatlre, aro tho greatest runners on euyth, not In regard re-gard to speed but In eniluranco. Thoy lmvo been lenown to avcrago 170 miles per day; thoro Is an absolute record that Is lndlsputablo of a Tarahumaro sent with 'an Important, government document that necessitated nn Immediate Imme-diate answer covering (ho distance thoro nnd back, COO-mllo Jaunt, in Ave days, or nn averngo of 120 miles covered cov-ered In each 24 hours, not counting the time lost while the answer vas being prepared, and It must bo remembered re-membered that this feat wns not Por formed upon n fair road or on an undulating un-dulating plain. It was over tho wildest wild-est country that the Sierra Madre affords; af-fords; up and down paths that tho very deer would hardly esteem a trial; tho only level ground encountered was tho crossing of a deep river. Also, tho Journey was done on "pinole," a species of popcorn ground down nnd nilxotl with water, nnd the runner car-riod car-riod lils camp equipment, n native woven whlto wool blanket. |