The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
TAFT TOUR GROWS
Will Be Extended to Middle of
Next Month.
President Gives Members of
Party Lesson in Endurance.
MAJOR BUTT IS ILL
Military Aide Recovering and
Will Go Through.
Supplemental TripWiIl Probably
Hn0inhM G0p,%1,o,.,. w.
Supplemental Trip Will Probably
Include Southern Visit.

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Las Vegas, N. NJ, oct. 18.=Presi-
dent Tafts notable Swing around the
circuit" now ending its fifth week.
will not end in Washington on No
vember ], as first contemplated, but
viii be extended until November Is
or Is. The president will travel some
5000 or 1000 miles more than at first
intended bringing the total mileage
OF ms tour up to between 900 and
1,OOO miles, and breaking all known
records of presidential travel
Inc regular itinerary of the original
trip will be followed to Pittsburg.
where President Taft will spend the
gntlre day Of Tuesday October 81.
Ihen instead of keeping on to Wash
lngton Mr. Taft Will go direct to
MOrgantown, w. Va to spend Wed-
nesday, November H. From Morgan
town ne will go to Hot Springs, Va,
TO rest for five days. starting west
again in time to vote at Cincinnati at
the local elections to be held there
November Z. The president will re-
MAN IN ms old home town for a day
or two and VIII be rendered a banquet
Following the Cincinnati trip Mr.
raft probably Will go to Hodgensville
KY, to participate in the dedication of
Lincoln farm memorial. There are
two or three tentative dates in Ten
nessee following and then it is ex-
pected Mr.. Taft will return to Wash
ington in time to prepare his message
70 congress Wnlcn 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
Taft'S plans, he will discard his spec
ial train either at Chicago or Pitts
burg and will make the supplemental
tour in his private car attached to
regular trains. Mr.. Taft has stood the
wear and tear of constant travel thus
better n 10 mo foor-S
of his party and does not view the ad-
ditional trip with any physical misgiv-
ings
Major Butt Is III.
Major Archibald w Butt. his in
defatigable military aide, who has
been at his side during all of his trav-
els and who kept close step with
President Roosevelt Is well, has been
on the sick list now for several days,
but is rapidly recovering and will go
through to the finish
The president has been promising for
two years to visit certain cities in Ten
nessee and IS anxious to keep his word.
He was due to visit Hodgenville, ~,
early in the fall, but was advised to
remain out of the state while bittar
political campaign was on.
With the present trip ended and with
congress, the national convention and
a presidential campaign coming in
within the next few months Mr.. Taft's
travel days will be over for some time
to come. So he decided to clear up all
of his tentative engagements at one
time if he could and face the coming
session and the campaign with clean
slate.
Engine Slips a Tire.
An unusual coincidence in connection
with the announcement of an extern
sion of the trip was the fact that =
serious accident to the presidents train
was narrowly 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 making a casual inspec
ton to detect hot bearings, discovered
to his arnazement that the tire on the
right trailer wheel of the ponderous
from its proper place A sharp curve
if taken at high speed, it was said
might lave thrown the tire completely
off. and then t would have been little
less than an even break as to whether
the engine and several of the cars fol- \
lowing would have thrown into the
ditch A hurry call was sent to kelso
and a spare engine was rushed to The
scene.
owing to many requests for stops
along the way the presidential train al
ready was running an hour late, the
DELAY insuring new engine resulted in
the loss of another half hour and eff
forts are being made today to eaten
M with the schedule before reaching
salt Lake where the train is due at
2:1O D. m Governor Spry and Senator |
Smoot of Utah and Col. D. G. lacking
of salt Lake will accompany the presi-
dent through Utah today Special stops |
have been scheduled at Ogden, Logan |
and one or two other points.
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Another Russian Prince Shot.
Novo Tcherkask, Russia, Oct. IS