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Show Gov. Taft Improving. WASHINGTON. April 16. Secretary Root has received the following cable ca-ble from Gov. Taft, who went recently from Manila to Benguet to recover his health: "Stood trip well; rode horseback 25 miles to 5000 feet altitude. Hope dysentery dy-sentery cured. Great province. This only 150 miles from Manila with air as tracing as Adirondacks or Murray bay. Only pines and grass lands. Temperature this, hottest month in the Philippines, in my cottage porch at 3 in the afternoon, 68. Fires are necessary night and morning." |