Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-14
PAST DANGER LINE.
President McKinley's Doctors De-
clare That He Will Recover.
He VIII Carry the Assassin's Bullet, How
ever, rs Long rs Ho Lives, rs There
Will BE No Attempt Made to
Remove It

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danger and that only the possibility
of complications threatened his life.
They did not give assurance of his
recovery collectively over their sigma
lures in an official bulletin, but they
went long way toward it individual
ly and separately during the day.
Each of them, with the exception of
DIR. Rixey, who did not leave the Mil
burn residence, placed himself square,
ly on record, not privately to the
friends of the president, but publicly
through the agency OF the press, that
the danger point had passed and
that the president would survive the
attempt upon his life. "Of course
we will all fell easier when week
has passed." said DR.. McBurney, the
dean of the corps. 1--WE would like
to see every door locked and double
locked, but the danger from posi-
BILE complications is now very re-
mote"
AS an evidence of the supreme
faith he holds, DR.. McBurney, after
the morning consultation, made q
"trip to Niagara Falls and at night in
tended to leave for Stockbridge,
Conn.,, but missed his train. He could
reach here again in ten hours If the
unexpected should happen and there
should be n change for the worst.
The little piece of lead in the muscles
of the back is giving the physicians
no concern whatever. Unless it
should prove troublesome to the
president later on, he will probably
carry this grim souvenir of the an
archist with him to the end of his
days.
The doctors say that once encysted
It can do no harm. The X-ray ma
chine is ready for instant use, how
ever, and if there is the slightest in
flammation or pain in the vicinity of
the bullet an operation will be per-
formed.
The vice president, members of the
cabinet, Senator Hanna and the other
distinguished friends of the president
who have remained here to await the
issue accepted the verdict of the
physicians yesterday as practically
conclusive, and there was an exodus
of those who considered their pres
ence no longer necessary. Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt left yesterday evening
for his home ut Oyster bay, Senator
Hanna returned to Cleveland on bust
ness, to be gone two days, and Comp
troller Dawes went back to Wash
ington last night. Abner Mckinley,
the presidents brother, will remain
a few days longer, but his family have
returned home and Mrs. Duncan and
several other relatives of the presi-
dent have gone. Judge Day, long
and closely associated with the presi-
dent, returned to Canton yesterday
afternoon. The five members of the
cabinet still here will remain few
days, rather rs friends who have been
intimately associated with the presi-
dent for several years, than as pub
lie officials.
The presidents physicians have
been impressed with his remarkably
recuperative powers and the rapidity
of his improvement. Ordinarily an
incision for such an operation as was
performed upon the chief executive
should heal within three weeks, but
in the presidents case he may be
strong enough to be moved little
sooner. The president will be taken
direct to Washington as soon as it is
safe to move him.
A most important development Of
the day was the private determine
ton reached among those in charge
of the case that food should be adj
ministered to the patient to-day by
the mouth. Not since the shooting
has q morsel of food been given to
the president by natural means, but
the drain on his system has been met
by dissolved foods administered by
infection.
Rooseveits Loyalty 70 Mckinley.
Anlburn House, Buffalo, n. Y, Sept.
11.-vice President Roosevelt read
with eagerness the dispatch from the
Milburn mansion telling of the presi-
dents improvement. When he had
finished he clapped his hands joyous
~, and with tears in his eyes said
to Mr.. Wilcox, his host: 'Therei
didn't tell you God wouldn't let such
q noble man die by an assassin's bull
let?" Mr.. Wilcox announced that the
vice president had been urged, in view
of the presidents improving condi-
ton, TO utilize his last day in seeing
some of the Pan-American exposition,
notably the government building. The
vice president declined the invitation
with some little vehemence. He said:
81 do not believe, even though I am
assured of the presidents GONZALES
cence that it would be entirely prop
or for me TO take part in any of the