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Show COLORADO WANTS COL. ROOSEVELT Pl'EBLO. Colo., August 7. AI- j though Colonel Theodore Roosevelt does not believe he will be able to accept ac-cept the Invitation extended him by ihe Arkansas Valley Commercial association as-sociation to attend the famous Wo-t.-rmelon day at (he Arkansas Valley inlr at Rocky Ford. Colorado. September Septem-ber 1. when" more than HU""0 people will be in attendance, an effort Is still be-In made to got him to reconsider h's determination. In reply to his letter of thanks but i of declination, written to K. H. Fax on, president of the Arkansas Valley j Commercial association. Col. Rooa-f-volt says: "I wish I could accept, but it is u s-iinpl? impossibility. "You have no conception of th multitude, of requests to speak, and Invitations to attend banquets and reunions re-unions which I have received. "It ts physically impossible for me to accept even one In a hundred. I am deeply touched by the courtesy Fhown to me In asking me to attend these banquets aud reunions and make these speeches, but I could not possibly accept more than a relative-ly relative-ly smail proportion unless I absolute-ly absolute-ly abandoned all thought of Jolny an thing else of any kind or sort and I mention this as applying to the. Invitation which I should really llk to accept." To this Mr. Faxon made reply, pointing out how, without Inconvenience Inconven-ience or discomfort. Col. Roosevelt could easily stop in Pueblo and participate par-ticipate In the cornerstone laying of the new Young Men's Christian association asso-ciation building and then tarry brlei-iy brlei-iy at Rocky Ford while going from Denver, where he will be August SI, to Osawatomle, Kansas, where he will I oe-dieate the John Brown state park September 2. The effort has net yet been relinquished, relin-quished, cither, to secure Col. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's promise to attend and iiddrer.t the Eighteenth National Irrigation congress. Pueblo, September 2ti-3o. 1. Is pointed out to Col. Rooseveit that he once colled the Irrigation congress "the greatest development a;;ency in the land," and that he has promised to attend the National Conservation Con-servation congress at St. Paul and the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress at San Antonio, both younger young-er and less Influential organizations than the National Irrigation congress. |