Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-09-28
PRESIDENT READY
FOR WESTERN
TRIP
VISIT TO KEokuK AND VOYAGE
DOWN THE RIVER MAY BE
HIS LAST OFFICIAL APP.
PEARANcE IN WEST.

Washington. Sept. 27.-All ar
rangements have practically been COM
pleted for the coming trip of President
Roosevelt in the west and south. Ac-
cording to the present schedule the
President will leave next Sunday for
Canton, Ohio, which city will be
reached about noon Monday, In the
afternoon of that day he will particle
pate in the dedication Of q magnificent
Kinley, making the principal address
of that occasion. The same evening
he will leave Canton for Keokuk, Iowa,
which will be the starting point Of his
seven hundred mile Journey down the
Mississippi river.
The members of the inland waterway
commission which the President APP
him at Keokuk and accompany him on
the river trip. The commission Is
scheduled to leave ST. Paul today for
an inspection Of the upper Mississippi
river. This inspection will occupy four
days and the commission will reacf,
Keokuk In time to meet the President
next Tuesday.
Fam Keokuk 'hs. l,res,a.n. Cd his
party will journey down the Missts-
reached wednesday morning, october
1. At st. Louis the President will be
greeted by fourteen governors OF
states. The PresideI. and the govern
ors will be the guests OF the Business
Mems League while In st. Louis and
arrangements are being made, to give
the distinguished visitors q hearty well
come.
To Talk at st. Louis.
At st, Louis the, President will de-
liver one Of the important addresses
! of hic trim IJo will epaak In tho IA
Alai building, a structure that viii
seat 1000 people A luncheon at thu
| Jeffersonian hotel will follow and ther
the party will leave for another sector
of the journey, that from st. Louis (
Cairo. The southern Illinois city vii
be reached the morning Of october 9
The governors wifi accompany the
stop but two hours, but In that time
the President will deliver another O
the speeches he has specially prepared
for the occasion. Leaving Cairo at L
o'clock in the morning, still accompan,
led by the governors, the whole part.
will steam to Memphis. which city will
be reached at O'clock on the after
noon Of October 4.
Convention at Memphis.
The second annual convention of tn
Lakes to the-Gulf Deep Waterway as
ISOLATION Will meet at memphis at
o'clock on the morning Of October
and in the afternoon the President vii
J address the delegates In the Memphi
Auditorium. This, will conclude hi
4 trip and speechmaking, 50 far as pres
ent arrangements go. 1t Is probable
however, that the President will con
4 tinue his journey into Mississippi an
!, probably go on a short hunting tri
| farther west. In this event he will no
| return to Washington until after tn
middle of october.
The seven days between his leavin
I. this city and his appearance at Mem
phis will be an exceedingly strenuotl
) week for the President. Besides tn
, half dozen set speeches. each Of whic
will be read very generally by q ma
ton Of So.000,oo0 people, the Presideu
will be called on for as many more ex
temporaneous talks, and these, too, re
, Equire some attention, although not
: finished preparation. Already there ar
indications that tax will be made o
the Presidents stored-up vitality gain
ed from the three and a half month
he has spent at his summer home
t Oyster Bay.