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Show HARDSHIPS OF A MAN ON FOOT E. -Moyer, a young man, aged 22 years, who is walking from Roading, Pennsylvania, to San Francisco, passed through Ogden yesterday. Moyer left Reading last May, work-' ing here and there until ho accumu-afefdpiCntlftueJjaiirjiey accumu-afefdpiCntlftueJjaiirjiey He has. encountered soirib ferrfb'hXi hardships east of rfre- in Wyqmlfcg and Nebraska, where the extreme cold has at times made It Impossible for him to travel and where it also has been very difficult to find work of any kind. Moyer did not state just what the wager was nor what had prompted him to start on hiB long walk across tho continent, but it is said at the Southern Pacific offices, whore he called yesterday, that his long tramp hnd been commenced more in a spirit spir-it of adventure than anything else. The young man made application to Assistant Superintendent Easton of the Southern Pacific for a permit to cross tho trestle of the Lucln cutoff, which request was granted, and tho young cross-continent walker continued con-tinued on his way. oo |