The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-02
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orders Ia orders. and I'm NOT the fellow 70
dIsobey them.
Sol ~ happens that seth Bullock IL o-nIgh
on the deco of the " ,-isSippi a. she lodges
a bar, picsing her vay through the
narrow channel down to- ~. LOUIS. pre-
slrnap'v discussing the Old DAKOTA days
with the Chief Ma istrste. GOV. ErGny,
too. NAV find olt whether he - to get a
fat Federal Job after he Is succeeded in
ofhce by the Democrat whom the people
~ the new state of Oklahoma have Just
selected
FOLLOWING on hehlrd m tie wake and the
splash IT the MISSISSIPPI " tie Mississippi
River Commission on board tho steamer
LILY. and then come Some other -mall craft
Which are acting rs a sort of naval escort
70 the President and his Rough Rider com
T~'anions,
he Governors VIII he wa,,inC again ~
~. Louis 10 greet tho President when he
gets there to morrow morning. Ie may
have more crportinity 10 see them there.
The President spent three hours in
keokuk, and it vii be a long time before
keokuk forge's his VISIT. HE approach 10
the city over the hrrds" which siaus the
Mississippi here was slgnalIod nv the shrli
toots OF the whistles 81 al the river craft
lined up along tn hank awaiting hls ComiHg.
As soon is bis greeting with seth BullocS
vas over tho President entered Il carriage
md was driven through tho principal
streets oi the city TO Rand Park. a beauti-
fully Nhoded spot overlooking the river
and commanding d view Of the stream TOT
many miles north.
On tho ride 10 he park the President
was told how Keokuk expects to treble
her population within the next few years.
because a big power COMPANY is planning
to dam the river at this point at a cost
OF Si0JOoo,Ooo and create n fab Of twenty
two feet, which will develop sufficient
electric power - supply al the surrounding
country and PERHAPS part Of Chicago
Navigation vii hc kept open by means Of
locks, and thus the canal eight miles long
which is used now to avoid the rapids will
no longer be necessary. Then. too. no
learned something of the history OF keokuk
old fort which annotated the frontier
town whose people were befricndcd 10y the
great Indian chieftain keokuk of the Sacs.
SO greatly did the old warrier endcar him
self TO the frontiersmcn that they named the
town for him and erected over wha; il sup
posed to he his bones In Rand Park a huge
Of native stone.