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WANTS TO RACE ACROSS CONTINENT. Kansas City, Mo., August 20. Jim Gabriel, a cowboy, who broke endurance records for the Government in a 2,T50O-mlIc trip on horseback from Sheridan, Wyoming, to Chicago, has Issued a 0,000 challenge for a relay ride from New York to San Francisco. He says he will make the journey In thirty days or less, bars no one in the world as competitor, and says he has the amount of money stipulated ready to place in stakeholders hands. If no one accepts his proposition Gabriel will wager the sum that he can reach Chicago from New York in quickest time on one horse. His average daily speed for the entire journey he tells in hla manifesto, would be fifty miles. Gabriel has spent his life of- thirty-three years ahorse. He was born in the far west and has been a cowboy despatch bearer, hunter and bucking horse breaker. He exhibits proudly an official letter of high compliment from General Nelson A. Miles for brave service during the Wounded Knee and Cheyenne campaigns.
