Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1914 — ON A TEN-THOUSAND-MILE HIKE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ON A TEN-THOUSAND-MILE HIKE

William Moore, aged twenty-one; El win G. Cook, twenty-seven, and Henry Mason, twenty-two,* have started on a ten-thousand-mile hike, bearing letters from Mayor Mltchel of New York. They are "dragging a miniature prairie schooner stored with provisions and clothing and expect to cpver 24 states in about eighteen months. Their combined capital they started was $2.