The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
PRESIDENT'S LONG
ROUTE ARRANGED

Beverly, Mass, sept. b--Ine route
along which President Taft will thread
bis way for thirteen thousand miles
in a tour Of the west was definitely
mapped yesterday.
The line runs through twenty-four
states, and more than one hundred
cities are red-dotted, showing pauses
for speeches on tariff, reciprocity, ar
bitration. conservation and Alaska.
The presidents trip viii start from
Boston, September -, and will finish
at Washington, November ], in time to
hear the verdict from several Of the
states in the election six days later
The president heads straight for
Michigan, pausing only day or two
in New York and Pennsylvania. From
Michigan the route leads into Illinois
and then through Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa Nebraska, Colorado Wyoming,
Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Cal
ifornia, Montana, South Dakota, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, and finally to Chi
cago, Pittsburg and Washington. In
five states he makes no stops.
The longest jump on the trip is 882
miles, from Los Angeles to Salt Lake
City. The president will seldom go
more than twenty or thirty miles with
out stopping to say word either at a
hall or from the rear platform of his
car.
The itinerary follows:
Leave Boston September IS; SYRIA
cuse, Erie, Pa, September 16; in Erie
September II; Erie, Pa, Detroit, Pom
tiac, Saginaw, Bay City Mich, Sep
tember 18; Bay City, Sault Ste Marie,
Marquette, Mich, September 19; Mar
quette, Mich, September 20; Grand
Rapids, Monteith, Battle Creek, Kala-
mazoo, Mich, September 81; Peoria,
H., September %; Peoria, H., St
Louis, September %; Kansas City,
Baldwin, Cherryvale, Coffeyville,
Kans., Independence, Kans, Chanute,
Ottawa, Kansas City, September 25;
Hutchinson, Kans., September 26;
Hutchinson, Topeka, Atchison, Leaven-
worth, Kans., September 27; Council
Bluffs, Denison, Fort Dodge, Webster
City, Iowa Falls, Waterloo, Ia, Sep
tember %; Waterloo, Des Moines
Knoxville, Abba, Ottumwa, Ia, Sep
tember 20; Moberly, Sedalia, Kansas
City, September 80; Omaha, Neb., Oc-
tober Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings
Neb., October 2; Denver, Col, October
l3; Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Wyo.
October 4 Salt Lake City, October 5;
Pocatello, Boise, Id, October 6; Walla
Walla, Lewiston, Moscow, Id, Spokane
Wash, October T. Lind, Ellenburg
Tacoma, Wash, October 8; Belling-
ham, Mount Vernon, Everett, Seattle
Wash, October 8; Seattle, Tacoma
Wash, October 10; Tacoma, Olympia
lCentralia, Chehalia, Castle Rock, Kel-
so, Kilam, Vancouver Wash, Portland
Ore, October II; Portland, Salem, Ore
October -; Sacramento, San Fran
cisco October 10; San Francisco, Oc-
tober Ia and Is; Los Angeles, October
! 16; Los Angeles October II; Salt
Lake City, October 1S; Butte, Living
ston, Billings, Mont, October 19; Sher-
idan, Gillette New Castle, Wyo., Oc-
tober 90; New Castle, Wyo., Edge
mont, Custer, Deadwood Visit, Lead
Sturges, Rapid City, S. d., October u;
Pierre, S. d., October %; Pierre, HUI
ron, Aberdeen, S. D., October %, Aber-
deem, S. D., Cologne, Shakeeppe, Man
kato, Wateryille, Fairibault, Randolph,
Minneapolis, Mimi, October "a; ST
Paul, Mimi, October 25 Green Boy,
Appleton, Oshkosh, Fon Du Lac, Mil
waukee, Wis, October 26; Milwaukee,
Racine, Kenosho Wis, Chicago, H.,
October 27; Chicago, October 2S and
20; Chicago October 80; Pittsburg,
October 81; Washington, D. c., No
yember I,