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Show PRESIDENT VISITS GLACIERS. Climbs Mount Rainier and Narrowly Escapes a Night on the Mountain Tacoina President Taft climbed up to the foot of the glaciers on Mount Rainier on Sunday and narrowly b raped spending a night In the mountain moun-tain fastness. The preBldetlal party made the ascent in automobiles and when Hearing the highest point reach- ( ed by the roadway th machines be-1 came mired in mud up to the hubs ot the wheels. Forest rangers with teams of horses finally clear the way. Night had fallen and a storm threatened threat-ened as the president started down the decline. With searchlights blazing blaz-ing the way, the president's car slow ly crept along the edges of precipices and at times the outer vheeU were within two feet of a sheer drop of 1,-000 1,-000 ft et or more. |