Pushes Wheelbarrow 2300 Miles To Pay Bet

NIGG

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/15/2013 at 07:58:45

Salt Lake Telegram, March 10, 1913
(By International News Service)

LOS ANGELES, March 10-Pushing a wheelbarrow labeled "From Maquoketa, Iowa, to the Pacific or Bust." Charles Nigg is expected to pay his election bet when he reaches Long Beach tonight after a tramp of 2300 miles from Maquoketa to the coast.

Last November Nigg made a wager that Woodrow Wilson would receive 450 electoral votes. The loser of the wager was to leave Maquoketa bare-headed with one day's rations, pushing a wheelbarrow, and tramp to the Pacific coast. Nigg was the loser. He reached Victorville last Friday night and left early Saturday morning and should reach his destination, Long Beach, by tonight.