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TAFT WILL EXTEND Hts TRIP
Two Weeks to Be Spent in West Vir'
giria, Ohio and Kentucky.
TO REACH WASHINGTON NOV. IS
VIII Go 20 MOrgRntOwn from Pitts
burgh md Then to Cincinnati 40
NOte--Train Delayed by Ac-
cldent 10 LeRven worth.

+ LAS VEGAS, New. Oct 1s'-Presfdent
Taft's notable swing around the circuit"
now ending it's fifth week. will not end
in Washington on November 1. as first
contemplated, but VIII be extended until
November 10 or Is.
The president win travel some 5000 or
1000 miles more than az first intended,
bringing the total mileage of his tour up
to between 1900 and 1IOOO miles and
breaking all records uI presidential travel.
The regular itinerary Of the original trip
will be followed. to Pittsburgh where
President Taft will spend the entire day
of Tuesday, October 81. Then, instead of
keeping on toward Washington. Mr.. Taft
will go direct TO Morgantown, w Va, TO
spend Wednesday. November 1, From
Morgantown he will go to Hot Springs.
Va. TO rest for five days, starting west
again in time 10 vote at Cincinnati at the
local election TO be held there November
I. The president viii remain In his old
home town for a day or two and will be
rendered banquet. o.
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Following the Cincinnati trip Mr.. TAFT
probably will go to Hodgensviile, KY. to
participate in the dedication OF the LIN
coin farm memorial There are two or
three dates in Tennessee following this
and then Il is expected Mr. Taft viii re-
turn to washington in time to prepare
his message to congress, which meets the
first Monday in December The dates OF
the supplemental trip have not been fixed
beyond Cincinnati as yet, but probably
will be announced within the next few
days According to President Tafts plans
he will discard his special train either at
Chicago or Pittsburgh and will make the
supplemental tour in his private car at
tached to regular trains
Mr.. Taft has stood the wear and tear
Of constant travel thus far better than
does not view the additional trip with
any physical misgivings
Major Archibald w Butt. his military
aid, has been on the sick list now for
several days, but is rapidly recovering
and viii go through to the finish.
The president has been promising for
two years 10 visit certain cities In Ten
nessee and is anxious TO keep his word
He was due 70 visit Hodgsnsville. KY,
early in the fall. but was advised 10 re-
main out OF the state while a bitter po-
liticsl campaign was on.
Locomotive slips Tire.
An unusual coincidence in connection
with the announcement Of an extension
OF the trip was the fact that a serious
accident to the presidents train was mar
rowly averted on the desert west Of here
last night. Twenty miles west Of Kelso
the train was stopped so that the engine
might take water. The engineer, naiziug
q casual inspection 20 detect hot bear
ings. discovered 10 his anna cement that
the tire on the right trailer wheel OF the
ponderous locomotive had slipped an inch
OF more from It's proper place.
A sharp curve II taken at high speed, It
Is said. might have thrown the tire com
pletely off and then II would have been
little less than an even break as TO
whether the engine and several OF the
cars following would have been thrown
into the ditch. A hurry call was sent 10
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