Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-20
'0|D P[AlNSMlN ENDS
$4,000 nile JOURNEY
Col. King Stanley Back in Cali
fornia After Famous Trip by
Automobile Through 81
States-Was in Boise.

Complete details have just been re-
cefved by the Bannocll Motor Sales
company of the conclusion of Colonel
King Stanley's tour. proclaimed to be
the most remarkable automobile trip
ever made by private owner. He
visited Boise on the trip and has now
reached home.
Colonel King Stanley is back in the
land of the poppy and his Desert
Rat" saturated with mud is out in the
garage in neutral gear.
There Is no place like home!
So says Colonel Stanley after ia
days of touring through % states and
several hundred hamlets and cities. Ho
covered nearly 10000 miles. Starting
from Los Angeles, the sand rodent
poked it's radiator nose toward the
rising sun and after % weeks, parked
again in the Angel city-the end of
the trail--via nearly every well-known
mountain range and unmarked path in
America.
*. over the wastes of Arizona end
Texas, through the almost impossible
marshes of Louisiana, Alabama and on
to Florida, the colonel urged his gas
oline mount. Wheeling to the north
tie nations capital was passed and
then came the historic stop at And
and Broadway. New York City. Traf-
fc was blocked for several hours UNI
tered the great crowd of curious ten
Gerfeet while the colonel chuckled at
the interest his modest vehicle created
1t had been too modest TO even take a
hath for months.
UNDERTAKEN ON WAGER.
II was an ordinary garden variety
Maxwell, christened Desert Rat" by
Colonel Stanley after it had success
fully defied the elements of the great
southwestern deserts. Before the trip
had started it had seen over 1900
miles of duty.
The tour was the outcome of wager
between the colonel and friends in
california. He gambled $4,000 that he
could start from Los Angeles with $40
III his jeans and make the circuit of
tho states without sending his bank
TIE S. o. S. And today the colonel is
$4,000 to the good. The long trip was
nothing new to the old plainsman, who
had many years ago crossed the prair-
les on "a pony and once, on wager
rode a bicycle from San Francisco to
New York. AT Washington. ID. c., an
Observing Maxwell dealer got on the
Job and the Rat was accorded a reccp-
tun. The big stop" was at New York
City and then past Niagara Falls and
OIL to the Maxwell factory at Detroit.
Reachin; the famous Bad Lands Of
Dakota he met his pals of nearly half
century ago over trails that he
had ronped in pursuit of the unruly
redskin, the colonel drove the Maxwell
trails that had never tasted gasoline
and over which it was considered i'm
possible for an automobile TO pass.
vt Madison, Wisconsin,, Colonel
Stanley was the guest of Governor
Puillips and arriving in Fargo. North
7 akota, WAS accorded Il similar re-
oeption by. Governor Frazier.
BEAUTY AND THE COLONEL.
over the Yellowstone Trail they con-
tinued westward through the balance
Of the Bad Lands, passing Pompey's
Fillar the scene of bloody Indian
liz tile in which the colonel fought
many years ago. At Livingston, Mont.
he found many old acquaintance of
cling Yellowstone Park the colonel
reached Butte, Mont, the romantic
spot of his 1S,000-mile tour.
At this point the Desert Rat was
Photographed with Miss Edna Har-
Tington, a native daughter of Mon
ttna, who the colonel has described
Is the most beautiful girl in $4,000
miles, With great reluctance Butte
was left and so was the beauty, The
next important stop was Boise, after
which a dozen rousing reception We're
enjoyed all through the state of Ore
gen.
Arriving al Sacramento, Governor
Stephens welcomed the road-woru mo-
torist home and handed him messages
from eastern governors. The remain
ing 500 miles over "A smooth. silky
highway to Los Angeles was then
reeled off and the most spectacular
tour ever attempted bv Il private own
err came to a remarkable end.