Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-19
PRESIDENT Tf o..
EXTEND TRIP
Fifteen |: \ DAYS
Plans Announced for Ad-
ding Three or -Four Thou
sand Miles to Present
Schedule. ..s
INVESTIGATION MADE
OF WRECK ATTEMPT

In VESIlGAIll)N MADE
OF WRECK ATTEMPT
Theory Now Held That the
Presidents Special Actu-
ally Passed Over Bridge
Where Dynamite Was.
Las Vegas, New. Oct. 1S.-President
Taft's notable Swing around the
circle" now ending its fifth week will
not end in Washington on November
/, as first contemplated, but will be
extended until November 15 or IL.
The president will travel some 5000
or 1000 miles more than at first IN.
tended bringing the total mileage Of
his tour up to between 10000 and H.
900 miles and breaking all known rec
ords Of presidential travel. The regu-
lar itinerary of the original trip will
be- followed to Pittsburg, where
President Taft will spend Tuesday,
October 81. Then instead Of keeping
on to Washington Mr.. Taft will go to
Morgantown, w. Va, to spend We'd
nesday, November l. From Morgan
town he 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 No
vember Z. The president will remain
in his home town for day or two.
and will be rendered a banquet.
Following the Cincinnati trip, Mr..
Taft probably will 60 to Hodgensville,
KY, to participate in the dedication
OF the Lincpln farm memorial. There
are two yathreo tentative dates III
Tennessee following this, and then 1t
IL expected Mr.. Taft will return 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 will probably be announced within
the next few days.
According to President Taft's plans
he will discard his special train either
at Chicago or Pittsburg 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 far better
than any of the members Of his party
and does not view the additional trip
with any physical misgivings.
Wants to End Gadding Now.
Major Archibald w. Butt, his mill
tary aid, who has been at the presi-
dents side during all Of his travels
and who kept close step with Presi-
dent Roosevelt as 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 Tennessee and is anxious to keep
his word. He was due to visit
Hodgensyille, KY, early in the fall but
was advised to remain out of the state
while bitter political campaign was
on.
With the present trip ended and
with congress, the national conven.
tions and presidential campaign CON-
ing in within the next few months,
President Taft's travel Is about over
for some time to come. So he decid-
ed 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.
San Francisco, CAL, Oct. 1s.-Geo.
Inge, an expert on explosives, employ
ed by the Southern Pacific railroad to
,ne alleged attempt to
dynamite the Ell Captain 8OO-foot bridge
over which President Taft's train
passed last Monday morning expressed
as his opinion here today that the
twenty-five sticks Of dynamite found
beneath the bridge had been placed
there before the presidents train
passed, and plans really had been
made to blow up the structure. The
bridge is twenty-five miles north OF
Santa Barbara.
ut was while man was adjusting
the second charge of dynamite" said
Mr.. Inge, that a Mexican bridge
walker, Victor Gomez, discovered and
fred on him. The man ran and as it
was dark, no good description could
be given.
1T was not until later in the day
that Section Foreman Brown dfscov-
cred the presence of this charge of
twenty-one sticks of dynamite with the
fuse attached. There was not suffi-
cient explosive placed to completely
wreck the structure, but from what l
observed, it was clearly the work of
an expert"
United States secret service men
have arrived at Santa Barbara to |
aid in the search for the two
men who placed the dynamite
on the railroad span at El Captain just
before President Taft's train passed
over it. Many man hunters have been !
attracted by the Southern Pacific rail
roads offer of $4,000 reward for the |
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