The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
WIND AND SAND
DELAY RIDERS,
Bicycle Run Across the
PrairieS of Ne
braska.
THE HALFWAY STATION
Couriers Bound for Big Springs
Lost Their Way in
the Night.
PACKET DUE IN OMAHA.
Lost Time May Be Regained on the
Ride From Council Bluffs
TO Chicago.
PACKET DUE IN OMAHA.

The bicyeIe-riders of the San Francisco
Examiner and New York journals con-
tinentaI relay had covered half the dis
lance of the long journey at GIT P. N
yesterday, when the packet arrived at
kearney, Nebraska. The riders are still
behind time.
Some lost time was gained Monday in
Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska,
but Monday night or early Tuesday morn
ing, two OF the riders reaching ont for Big
Springs in the darkness, took the agri-
cultural advice OF a. Nebraska farmer as TO
the road they should travel, and went
twenty miles out OF their way. Other
relay courisrs were impeded by heavy
winds and deep sand.
According to the schedule, the packet
was due st Kearney, Nebraska, st 1854
Il N. yesterday, but 1t did not get there
until 6:17 P. M.-seven hours and thirty
seven minutes late.
The schedule provides for the arrival Of
the packet at Omaha az 1:10 a. N, Sep
TENDER today, but it viii not get there
until after sunrise this morning.
The following specials 70 the Examiner
tell OF the run IN Nebraska yesterday:
OMAHA. NEEz., Sept 1--Rider Floyds and
MeGinn LEFT sutherland at s:4 An
/ NORTH PLATTE, NEBE, Sept. Arrived 81
North Platte az 11:14 A N, central time.
/ Names Of relay riders. Joe FiIhon and Frank
Crfek-
KEARNEY. EEBE, Sept. when relay
/ reaches here some time this sfEer1oon IL
/ viii nave arrived exactly hallway on its
/ Journey.
I KEARNEY. NEBR, Sept I--Eesrney, which
/ claims 70 be the pivot OF the United States, IS
I wildly excited over the relay
Z OMAHA NEBR sent l-Relav passed Goth
( en5erg, Nebr-t 2:I6 P n Rider, L L Districk.
/ Two hours behind time Heavy head wind
/ kEARNEY, NEBE-, Sept. Race from North
Platte TO GoLhenberg was rather slow, because
Of heavy sand through which eour1ers had TO
( ride or walk
/ KEARNEY, NEBR-, Sept. IA heavy wind is
bowling across the prairIe N gusts from the
I south and southwest II L rather hlndrGlce
/ than hep
KEARNEY, NEBE, Sept There are some
/ hot riders here snd they are all ksEed up 20
/ scurry the packet along the fine Nebraska
rusds-
KEARSET, NEBE-, Sept. 1.-Another crack
I tandem team VIII carry the packet from Glib
bon, thirteen miles east OF here, 70 Wood
( River, fourteen niles further or The riders
/ are Charles Pickering and Charles thinner
nan.
/ spleadidIy packed and trsile6 n relays be-
tween kesrney and Grand Island, fOrty-three
{ miles away.
KEAPNEY. NEBR-. Sept I.-Eesruev Is the
end CT Bug ErsweIFs division. He viii take the
last rsLsy OF sixteen miles on I tandem with
W c Mills. crsckaiack local WheeImsn-
EEARSEY, NEBR-, Sept 1--Grest crowds here
I watching bulletins al Western Union Ofhce-
The packet arrived az OgsIIala at 6:I5
A. n, September l. at Sutherland :: 45 A N
az NOrah Platte HIS A NJ, at Elm Greek
5:23 ?. Il, at kearney 6:17 ?. N. al Gibbon
7:0i P. n, at Wood River 7:45 ?. n, at
Central City 1923 P. n.
I On the run through Iowa, which begins
to-day, the riders VIII follow the line OF
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad,
going north OF Council Bluffs 20 Missouri
Valley and then along the Boyer valley 70
the dividing ridge Of the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers. Should the weather favor
the coariers much os the time lost west oil
the Missouri River should be made up BE-
tween Council Bluffs and Chicago.