Theodore Roosevelt arrived at 9:30 a.m. at the Osawatomie depot on the Missouri Pacific from Pueblo.
The 51-year-old former president must have been weary, because on the previous day he had been greeted by thousands in Colorado, met with dignitaries, and laid the cornerstone of the new YMCA.
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