The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-01
THE WHEEL.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. SO.-Theo-
dore and Eddie Kraugess, of Mime
apols, wheelmen, arrived in the civ
Wednesday on their wheels. having
made the run from MINNEAPOLIS via
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cine routes in SO days of actual travel
Ihey had hard trip but fortunately
met with no accidents The actual
distance covered by the wheelmen was
loot miles and their average daily
run was rs miles, although one day
they covered "a miles, a portion Of
Whlcn was over mountain.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov Gothic
bicycle carnival at the COLISEUM clos
ed tonight and the record was broken.
John 5. Johnson went against the two
miles paced indoor record made at
Madison Square Garden, of 4:4l. and
made it in 4:2S 2-5.
In the twelve hour race, H. A. Ca
perton. of Louisville, won with 248 l-8
miles to his record; c. D. Kramer of
Des MONIES took second place, losing
by a wheel, but having the same num-
Der of miles to his credit.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. SO.-A special to the
Republic from Alton, ILL.,, says that W.
Minor to search for Frank G. LEM, the
PIttsburg Wheelman who was murdered
by .kurds there, has written letter TO
his father in that city. The letter was
written four days after the massacre
at ErZeroum.
Sachtleben was in that city on October
81 when the attack on the Armenians
was made. and says the soldiers of Abb
dull Hamid and a crowd of murderous
kurds killed 800 Armenians in two hours.
Together with the English consul and
an Armenian missionary, he was a wit
ness to the massacre from the roof of
the consulate, but the bullets finally flew
so thick that they were compelled to
take refuge in the cellar. The next day
he counted $50 dead Armenians, men,
women and children, while not a Turf:
was injured. Sachtleben writes that he
intended TO leave Erzeroua for home
this month. He has learned that the
friends of the men he had arrested for
the murder of LEM have taken steps to
have him removed, and he will return
to America until the danger is over. The
murderers refuse to tell wnere they hid
the body of Lenz and it has not been re-
covered.
CHICAGO. Nov. 30.-A NJ. Spaulding
arrived home from New York this morn
ing and found a letter from L. d. Ca
banne of St: Louis, one of the men re-
Gently expelled by the L. A. w. racing
board. in which he stoutly declares his
innocence of the charges preferred and
calls upon Mr.. Spauding for advice and
assistance. Cabanne evidently feels that
he has been unfairly tried and unjustly
convicted without Fearing or an OPP
portunlty to submit the evidence against
him.
Mr.. spalding said he had no hesitation
In saying that he believed, from several
conversations he had with Cabanne on
the subject, and the lack of evidence TO
show his guilt. that Cabanne might have
been unfairly treated and condemned
without hearing through star cham
Der proceedings. With the hope of get
ting further knowledge of this case and
TO satisfy the many thousands of wheel
men who are interested in it. Mr.. Spald-
ing has written a letter to Mr.. Gideon.
chairman of the /. A. W. racing board
which explains itself:
Now that their decision has been rem
dered in the Cabanne- Murphy-Titus case
is there any further necessity for with
holding the evidence and, history of this
case In the interest of common fairness
and in Justice to the condemned and on
their behalf. ! would request that you al
once publish all the evidence in this
case"