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Show T7"(T" STKFKtt b i nn I TE-DDY ILL No More Western Tours For the Former Form-er President Helena, April 12. An overcast sky, wiih a chill wind blowing from tho north, JupUcated'lu. Helena, tpday the weather cohdrtltfnT'Gbr. RjiJievel: cx-1 cx-1 erieiiwcd yeftcrday in Missoula. Jus, as i lie trniu pulled io, snow, vhich had been threatening since early morning, began falling. But the chill i'i the air o'id not lessen the warmth of mo greeting given to the former president, when he stepped tv m the tnin to the platform sli.- y after 11 o'c ock. It was a typical Western crowd, the slouch hat beln more in , evidence than the stove-pipe and its welcome was equally typical. The crowd at the station was not extremely large, because the program was for a quick run to tho high school, where Col. Roosevelt delivered nn addross at noon. . The first to greet the guest was former Senator Carter. A battalion of tho Twelfth i in'.'.ntry was at the station, members of the reception committee composed of residents of tho town, state offi- cers and old time mends from dif-! dif-! ferent parts of the state. Col. Roose-. Roose-. 'elt and tho committee, occupying two score automobiles, and the troops I In the street cars, came up town quickly. At the high school, Governor i Edwin L. -Norris. chairman of the reception re-ception committee. Introduced Col Roosevelt, who spoke for about an hour to a tremendous crowd With his arrival In Helena this ; morning, Theodore Roosevelt began j the last day of his tour through the west, as ho arranged It bofore leaving New York, on March S Before ho yielded to the request of the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin legislature and later that of the Minnesota law makers, to address t them on his way east, it was the former president intention to go directly di-rectly to New York from this city in the fastest possible time As his plans are now made, he will arrive In New York on April 1C. the time first set for his return, but will talk at St. Paul and at Mndlson on the way To make sure that he reaches Chicago from Madison in time to made his eastern connections, a special train will take him from the Wisconsin city under tho guarantee of tho railroad thnt the connection will be made. Time and again, during the last few Javs. since he started on the homo stretch of his journey. Mr. Roosevelt has repeated the declaration he made on the day that he left Now York, that this is his last extended speaking tour. He has shown, particularly since he left San Francisco, Fran-cisco, that he Is very anxious to get home, although .glad to see again the part of the West he knew many years ago, and glad to meet his old friends . and new in Montana. He has stated that in tho future he will go from New York only to speak at one or two places, nnd return immediately to his home. When he comes again to the Far West, he says, It will 'be only as a private citizen and on pleasure pleas-ure bent. |