With the loud crack of the whip and a yelping of Siberian wolf hounds attached to what looked like an automobile, George F. Small, “Shorty for short,” a native of Ontario, Canada, and H. T. Boone, colored dog master and a native of Whalen, Siberia, drove into Waukegan before daylight Friday morning in the course of a journey from Nome, Alaska, around the world.
    There were ten full grown Siberian wolf dogs attached to the automobilelike conveyance and three puppies yelped along also. Boone drove the dogs, which were heavily harnessed, somewhat after the fashion of horses. At Higginbotham’s the procession slowed to a halt and the two men dismounted, when the dogs, who were hitched tandem fashion, laid down, one one way and the other the other in regular order and all in a string.
Will Belt The Globe.
    While the two have advertised the Indian motorcycle all the way across the continent from Seattle to Waukegan, they are working on a much larger feat.
    They started out to belt the globe on a $10,000 wager nineteen months ago, the initial point being Nome, Alaska. Their backer is “Caribou Bill” [W. F.] Cooper, owner of the dogs. The same dog team that is sowing the name of Nome broadcast throughout the world won the 1908 sweepstakes dog race from Nome to Candle River, taking down thousands in prize money. Now the dogs are in the greastest race ever attemped with canines-to belt the world and to get back to Nome on Christmas day, 1912, or before.
Out Nineteen Months.
    The men and dogs left Nome nineteen months ago, thence going to Seattle and thence overland to Waukegan. They are now New York bound to take ship for Europe. The Sweepstakes which the dogs won is a race of 430 miles in the frozen north. Such races are world famous.
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