Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-19
Colonel Tells Doctors it is
Important That He Get
Back to Work, but They
Will Not Release Him.
WILL PROBABLY
LEAVE ON MONDAY

HSS~AA
fore Campaign Closes;
Meets johnson Today.
Chicago, Oct. 1S.--"Keep the fight
going full blast, Johnson; don't let our
bows slack up in their work because
can't be with them for few days.
Tell the people you speak to, wish
could be out there working with you
myself and that certainly will be as
soon as my doctors will let me"
This was Colonel Roosevelt's parting
Injunction and encouragement TO GOV.
johnson, progressive candidate lot
vice president, when the latter LETT the
presidential candidate at Mercy nos
pital at noon today.
Col. Roosevelt will leave Chicago for
oyster Bay, Monday or Tuesday OF next
week. He will travel over the Penn-
sylyania railway so that he may enter
New York at the station at which the
trains to Oyster Bay depart THIS
program was decided upon today with
only the qualification that It depended
upon Col Roosevelt's continued and
uninterrupted improvement, which his
physicians now confidently expect.
Although Col. Roosevelt insists ne
will be in condition to enter th9 cam
paign the physicians were car ful. 80
saw he must have period OF absolute
rest after he reaches Sycamore Hill.
The colonel hopes to make at least
one s,3eech, however before election
day in NV York.
II am getting anxious TO get back
to Armageddon, boys" was the
greeting Of Colonel Roosevelt to
his physicians when they appeared
this morning. The remark epitomized
the whole situation at Mercy hospital.
His anxiety to get back into the cam
paign was sharpened by the favorable
tone Of the physicians bulletin issued
after their examination.
It read as follows:
pulse 20, temperature 98.4, respira-
ton IS. Pain in chest diminished.
Breathing freer General condition SO
rood that he will be allowed to sit up
for an hour today. His convalescence
ia progressing favorably and unless
some latent lulcCIAOu AAoAAAVSSC ASoSeA
his progress should be rapid.
(Signed)
''Dr. John B. Murphy.
"Dr. Arthur D. Bevan.
T:sS ''Dr. Alexander Lambert.
'Dr. Scurry L. Terrell"
The trend OF the situation was to-
ward the desire to know when Will
he leave the hospitals"
Aware of this, his physicians began
computing the wisdom of fixing for
this an early date. They were not in
clined to make definite promise. but
the general tone of the conversation
appeared to center around the likeii-
hood of his leaving Chicago Monday
or Tuesday.
Col. Roosevelt said positively he
would like to be on his way to Oyster
Bay Sunday. This, his physicians
agreed was impossible. While the
danger from sepsis it was agreed, will
be sufficiently gone tonight, there still
was the remainder Of the eight day
period in which lockjaw might appear.
This has been made less probable by
administering an anti-toxin but the
practice Of taking absolutely no
chances will be continued.
II don't want to do anything to undo
the splendid work you gentlemen have
done fer me, and to put myself in the
position Of having to come back and
Ask YOU to do it all over again." he
told the doctors as they gathered at
his bedside, "but the time just now is
very valuable and hope you under
stand how important it is that I get
back to work"
=. "We do understand 1t, colonel re-
piled DR.. Murphy, vbut we have only
one concern: when you go out OF here
we want you to go to all purposes a
well man. or so we'll on the way to re-
coyery that no setback Will arise with
reasonable care. We believe you
might better lose day or two now
than week or a month later"
Mrs. Roosevelt agreed with this and
Col. Roosevelt said: well, you're all
against me I see, SO | guess all can
do is protest vigorously every minute
I have an opportunity. | will admit
] am doing famously with such break
fasts as | had this morning"
Colonel Wants Bullet as Keepsake.
It is said the colonel now suffers no
pain because of pressure OF the bullet
against his fractured rib. The rib 1t
is believed to be mending rapidly.
when he awoke this morning the col
onel wondered whether the attending
physicians would decide to remove
the bullet. He said If it was extract
ed he would have it gilded and made
into pocket 5.ece. q