Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-25
Patient Must BE Quiet.

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Absolute quiet has been enjointd up
on their distinguished patient. There
was slight rise in the Presidents
temperature last night after he reach
ed the temporary White House. This
was attributable to the excitement in,
eident to his removal from the train
and was regarded as entirely natural
lnder the circumstances.
In Good Spirits.
The President is in excellent spirits,
The announcement has been made
shat he will see no visitors save the
members of the cabinet and then only
upon the most important business.
The President did not leave his bed
this morning, but sat up and read a
book.
Cabinet Officers Call.
Secretaries Shaw, Wilson and Hitch
cock found him reading when they
called. They said that he looked as
hale and hearty as he ever did
Will Visit Iowa in Spring.
The President has abandoned all
his trips planned for this fall but says
that as soon as congress adjourns he
will go to the Pacific coast and visit
every city he intended to visit during
his trip just abandoned.
Arrives in Washington.
President Roosevelt reached Wash
Ing at $50 o'clock last evening in an
unhappy frame of mind because a
slight abscess had forced him to
abandon his western trip. The train
reached here on time, and President
Roosevelt was borne from the train by
his physicians.
Reats During Day.
During the forenoon's run, in de-
scribing his condition to caller, the
President said he could feel that some
thing had happened when he thought
about it and that was all. After eat
ing hearty breakfast the President
called for book, remarking that as he
was an invalid he proposed to enjoy
himself. He was propped up in bed
with his left leg on a pillow and spent
most of the day in reading.
After dinner the President express
ed a desire to see the members of his
party and they went into his state
room few at time He chatted
pleasantly with all of them and ex--
pressed his great disappointment at
not being able to continue the trip.
The President said he had yielded to
the doctors, but remarked that in his
younger days he had broken a rib and
his collar bone at sheepherding, but
had not allowed it to interfere with
his work.
President Praises Sisters.
Mr.. Roosevelt had nothing but fine
words for the treatment he received
from the sisters who have charge of
st. Yincents hospital at Indianapolis,
where he was operated upon One of
them was a nurse at Montauk when
the great hospital was established on
Long Island after the Spanish war.
and she reminded the President of the
fact that she had often seen him there.
The President was delighted to meet
her again and conversed with her for
some time.
Glad to Greet Wife.
The President was in a iovial hui
NOR when his train pulled into Wash
lngton and he greeted Mrs. Roosevelt
with much eagerness when she board
ed his car. Mrs. Roosevelt had arriv-
ed from Oyster Bay early in the after
noon and reached the Pennsylvania
station half an hour before the presi-
Dental special arrived. The Presi-
dents wife boarded the train immedi.
ately upon it's arrival and remained
with her husband nearly fifteen min
utes before he was brought to the
platform and placed in the wheeling
chair.
Mrs. Roosevelt looked worried and
alarmed before she saw her husband.
After having talked with him, howev-
er, she was smiling and happy and
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