Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — OREGON GOVERNOR [ARTICLE]

OREGON GOVERNOR

Most Travel on Horseback Because His Expense Fund Is Exhausted. Salem, Ore., Mlarch 24.—Because his traveling expense fund, appropriated by the last legislature, has become exhausted, Governor West will travel horseback for more than 500 miles to attend a convention of Western Governom. The trip will be made from Salem to Boise, Idaho, through a wild region of the Cascade Mountains. “I cannot afford to make this trip by train,” said the Governor today, "and I am desirous of attending the convention. lam not willing to create a deficit and appeal to the next legislature to make it good, so I will ride horseback.”