Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-16

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 Th@ people of Chicago and of the country 'laVc been kept informed of the 'fo5FeSs or the patient by bull iet'h }, issued at Frequent intervals hv his physicians. The first Of these. gwen out shortly after his a,rl.iva] at the hospital at G:30 a. h.. was hish- " o)tlmIstlc. It n effect dismissed me -1l1rTy as trifling and bale every body cease from troubling. The sec onai Was not quite SO cheerful and the thlrd, issued at l o'clock. an- nounced that the Colonel was suffer- Ing not from 8 mere flesh wound. but from q really serious woend i'm t3e rhert.
 It was then that the publt. became deep y interested in tsa. situation and It was necessary to lake force of policemen before the iron-barred Keep the public from sw2rming in kep ,Es public from swarming in and demanding frs, hand infornla- ,icn
 Th:s eftec. of the tragedy on tan To- col ,.olitical headquarters was in stantanecas Litslc or no business was ione at the Republican suite in the Nudltor un, or th usually Dem ocratlc offices in t3Te Karpen Build- ing. Sta-e and Nati9nal men. eena- tors and Representatives of both parties leht off work to discuss the afr ir. and to ask for tilines ef inc COLO 1el or to send messages of sym patny to him. Boxes of flowers came Ill express wagon leads and most of them had to be stacked ou. side the s Ok room T distributed among the ether patients. By evening he post mans burden was greater than he could carry and he had to relay to the .ospital.
 Not an echo of the excitement without, got to the sick room. Wrought the day the Colonal read te'es! ans, CT held short chats with friends.
 Now and then he. tried to reed, but could net SC. his mind on =f3e copies Of Macauley's Essays, whi ieh lay at his bedside. E9rly in the day he sent for the Rev Father Vattman. of the Hcsn tai staff wa2o lives in Wimotte. Father Vattman who once held d commission from the Colonel as cap- tain Ill the army, hurried tss tie hos- pital and talked with the former former President for two Or three minutes. Leaving, he said:
 "Mc. President, you were elected last night"
 Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, Col onal Rooseye!ts warm personal friend and his compan or OH the cam- paiSn trip, came ill With Medill Alc- Corllick t9 see !aim ea, breakfast.
 In the afternoon Mccormick called again and o. K. Davis, secretary of the Bail Moose National Committee, came in to talk about future plaas. X-Ray photos in a final successful endeaycr 10 iecase the bullet It was located ag2lnst the fourth lib on the right side. It entered the body two inches below the right nipple and langed upward and inward for a d:s- tanae of four inches and lodged two inches inward. By only the iniinites- msl traction of one inch cid it mss ahe liver and the plural cavity.
 Tho length of the wound, and, the necessity If making deep incision to bling forth the bullet determined the doctors to allow it to rena Il for the present ana permanently if it encysts.
 Af;er the last X-Ray photo the Colonel rested for little time, and orders were issued to let no one see him.
 It is Colonel Roosevelt's present purpose to deliver speech at Madi- son Square Garden October 26. But he has placed himself under the doc tols orders and will not leave: Chi cago until he is told that all danger of spsis has past.
 At S:30 the injured man announced that ,he would read himself to sleep. The lights were turned low ill ad- joining rooms.
 Dr. Murphy and Dr. Bevan, after "a, consultation, decided that it would be necessary to issue no more bull letins for the night. At midnight tee white jacketed interne appeared at the Colonel's window, gazed doWn on the crowd and pulled down the screen, presently the ght went out behind them.
 What is believed to be tae Colonel's s worst day was at an end.