Show INDER MEEKER CALLS CALIS ON PRESIDENT washington nov 29 bareheaded with ith flapping co attaiN and exhibiting the enthusiasm of a bry pi president roosevelt roosevel blood in axce exen five tive avenue today examining in min faff it detail the prairie schooner and y team with which aich fara meeker the old ola trai londer of oregon made the trip from portland to washington meeker who wants gov amment to convert the old oregon trail into a national highway lum j bared into t town tn a few days ago at a mile an hour gait with his covered wagon a and nd nt signs painted I 1 all over it through senator piles and representative depre tentative cushman ho he arra ged for a meeting with the president and early today he lie drew up in front of the juif house there was as quite a crowd son n hand when era ezra white haired bearded I 1 weather beaten and wrinkled but as spry ism and active a as a boy hopped over the left lef t front wheel gave the nigh ox a parting goad and ducked i into the executive office to keep hlf his I 1 appointment meeker got a very cordial arft greeting t from the president who listened attentively while the old man told of his effort to secure recognition through the medium of a great national road or pioneer way of those winners of the farther west who fought such a strenuous strenuous battle in their long weary march to th the e oregon country along the trail which later for two thousand tho imAnd miles was marked by the unburied bones of or fallen frontiersmen meeker sleeker then told the president that a recent effort had been made and that twenty monuments hae haie been er created ted by the along the wy way now national aid is desired to complete the work begun and to accomplish com the double purpose of festering s patriotism while ing the material resources of the nation |