The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sheriff l.. l.. Kiene Has a New
Motor Car.
Has Learned to Run It-TakeS
Friends Riding.
NOTES OF Topeka AUTOISTS
Several TOpekans Are Making
CrOss-COuntry Trips.
Gossip of General Interest to
POp-POp Riders.

Sheriff L. L. Kiene has bought
Little Six car and already he has learn
ed to run it and takes his friends rid
ing. He steers this car in the cool,
bored fashion of a man who has done
nothing else for ten years. One hand
asprawl 5er the center of the steer
ing wheel and the other carelessly, as
it were, grasping the rim. He runs in
clines on one speed, climbs hills on
another and hold the third speed in de-
serve for the Rocky mountains.
But he won't raise the top provided
with his car to keep out the sun in
the daytime. Says he cannot see with
it up, yet it only keeps out the light
from on high and shuts off the view OF
the clouds Now if he used the side
curtains, too his logic would have
more to commend it. The sheriff rides
with the thermometer 102 and the
suns rays like a belch out of perdition
and does not seem to mind it any
more than a salamander. He is going
to trade the top for gasoline.
Major Harvey drove his Ford sixty
over the SO-mile route Friday and never
had to stop except when he wanted to.
The major came in happy excepting
only that he did not have chance to
haul in some diSa bled Six-cylinder car
II want to hook on to one of those big
cars and haul them clear to the gar
age" said the major. Never be happy
It'll 1 do. 1 want to give aid TO those
fellows who call my car road louise "
The major is full of the aid project.
He has passed many big cars on the
waiting list by the roadside but they
all got started again before he couIo
get his block and tackle fastened to
the front axle.
Frank Lagerstrom writes from Col
orado Springs that he pulled into that
place August with the same air with
which he left Topeka. No bad luck OF
any kind. Found some fine roads ana
some the reverse. He says there are
120O out of town machines in Color
ado Springs. He passed two cars on
the road that had been partially de-
stroyed by fire.
Leonard Billings has just completed
a fine overland trip from Topeka to
Denver in almost record breaking time
Billings left here Monday morning at
O'Clock and ate dinner that day at
Ellsworth, in the central part OF the
state. He reached Colby, 80 miles from
the Colorado line, Monday night. Early
Tuesday morning he left for Denver,
but lost the road and landed in Col
orado Springs early Tuesday afternoon,
on account of a V-shaped branch. On
his arrival in Colorado Springs he in
auired the right road to Denver, and
reached there at o'clock Tuesday ev-
ening. He lost his way again on the
road to Denver, but found the right
trail again.
Billings made the trip in his gray
Stafford racabout, and Mark Nichols
went with him. These two young men
reported that the roads from Colby on
were in fine condition, but that the
eastern Kansas roads were sandy and
dusty They will remain in Colorado
for a short time on business, and will
probably return here before the last
of this month.
T. F. Richenbacher writes from the
Garden of the Gods that he expects to
make a mileage of 1000 miles before
he returns to Topeka. His car has been
running fine.
Leonard Billings made a fine run to
Denver in his Stafford this week.