Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — THANKED BY PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

THANKED BY PRESIDENT

In a Letter He Denies Striking HorM of .Any Lady. Loa Angeles, Cal., Feb. 9.—Mrs. A W. Rhodes, whose daughter was men tinned in the story that President Roosevelt had struck the hors©, has received the following' letter frdra the White House: “I am, glad to hear from you that your daughter denied the story that I struck her horse. Of course, I never struck her horse or any other lady’s horse. The whole story was so absurd as not. to be worth deuial. “Numerous stories of this kind are started from time to time by foolish or malicious people. Occasionally I am obliged to deny them, but as a rule I And It best simply to Ignore them.” 0