Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-05-21
OREGON IS ENTERED.
The President Journeyed Yesterday
IN Regions Around Mount Shasta.
The TOWNS FEW and FAR BETWEEN
I Ehe President Greeted by Six Thousand
People at Ashiand-Last Night spent In
Travelling and Salem Entered
M This Morning.

Ashland, Ore, May 2l.-President
\ Roosevelt yesterday completed his
tour of California and entered upon
I the last stages of his long trip which
Is to end at Washington June 8. His
tourney yesterday was through the
4 mountainous region around Mount
Shasta, where the towns are few and
far between and consequently he has
ibeen called upon to do but little
speaking. Where his train did stop,
however, he was met by large and en-
fhusiastic crowds. Gov. Pariee, OF
California, who has been with the
lpresident almost continuously since
The entered that state, bade him
good-by ct Hornbrook, and in the
short address the president delivered
mt that place he said he was very
sorry to part with him. The presi-
dent made his longest speech of the
day at Dunsmuir, Cal II think that
il can say" he said, shat I came to
California o pretty good American.
and / go away better one. Glad
though that I have been to see your
wonderful products, your plains and
your mountains, your rivers, to see
fhe great cities springing up. most
Of all have I enjoyed meeting the
men and women to whom we owe
what has been done with mine and
railroad, and numbering camp and ir-
.rigated field and the ranch and the
counting house-the men and women
who have made California what she
u.s."
The president also spoke at Sisson
and at Montague. At the latter place
he said: "When my trip was made
an I asked why IL was necessary to
give relatively four times as much
time to California as TO any other
state. understand now. / only
fNlsh IL had been possible to make
llt eight times as much instead. This
morning I have been greatly Inn
pressed in travelling through these
mountains and meeting the men who
have done so much ~ numbering, as
ID have already met the men OF the
ttnines and ranches; the commerce
and Industries of the great cities.
This state Is In boundaries and re-
! sources greater than many an old
world empire; and think what II Is
10 be citizen Of q union in which
(, commonwealth like this Is a state"
The president was greeted by 5000
people as his train pulled into Ash
land yesterday evening at quarter
Of seven o'clock, where he made his
first stop within the confines OF Ore
gon. Bands were playing, cannon
were booming and thousands were
cheering as the president stepped out
npon the rear platform Of his car
for 15-minute speech which he IN
Produced by expressing the peculiar
Measure he felt at entering the
state of Oregon for the first time
People gathered here from all Sec
lions of southern Oregon to welcome
the president. He spent the night
travelling, no stops Of any length be-
ing scheduled after he left Ash
land. He arrived in Salem this morn
ing at nine o'clock and was met by
Gov. George Z. Chamberlain ana
eommittee from the state legislature,
Three hours were spent in the capt.
tai and the president delivered an ad-
dress from the state house steps.
Gov. Chamberlain will accompany the
presidential party to Portland. where
! they will spend tonight.