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Show PRESIDENT SPEEDING ST. LOUISWAEDS FOB ' DEDICATION OP PAIS. KEOKUK. Ia.. April 29.-The President left Iowa this morning over the Burlington Burling-ton en route to Quincy and St. Louis. At the station In this city Gov. Cummins of Iowa bade him good-bye and Gov. Dock-ery Dock-ery of Missouri welcomed him to the State of Missouri. The party arrived at 8:30 over the Rock Island from Oitumwa and was met by the reception committee, consisting of city of-ciuls of-ciuls and prominent citisens, and escorted to carriages. In the carriage with the President was Mayor Andrew J. Dimond and Hon. John M. Irwin. ex-Governor of Arizona, and United States Minister to Portugal under McKinley. Escorted by the old Fiftieth -band and ( six companies of the Iowa National Guard the procession moved along Main street, which was lavishly decorated with flairs and banners and thropged with fully 30.-'OuO 30.-'OuO people. At Rand park the President, standing In the pit of a natural amphitheater, amphi-theater, made a ten-minute speech, which, was heartily applauded. The grave of th Indian chief. Keokpk, from whom this city gets its name. Is located here, and the carriages were halted for a few moments beside his monument. The party was then driven back to th train and departed southward at 10 o'clock. The President while here was given a miniature fae-simtle of the flrrt American flag made by Bety Ross. This banner was of silk with the thirteen stars, nT was made by Airs. Rachael Albright of Fort Madison, la., who is the. ninety-one-vear-old great-granddaughter of Betsy Ross. |