CONDITION OF
PRESIDENT IS
, MUCHIMPROVED
Passed Restful Night with Six
Hours Sleep—Appears
Greatly Refreshed.
(Continued f rom »*»ge one.)
of regret, for the President's warm
heartedness and kindness made
friends in every strata of life. All
officials kept in closest touch with
the press associations for the latest
information.
SECRETARY DAVIS ANXIOUS.
LONDON. July 31.—Secretary of
Labor Davis has sent a message to
Dr. Sawyer expressing sympathy at
tho illnoBs of President Harding and
asking to be kept informed on con
ditions. If President Harding docs
not improve, Davis will sail for New
York tomorrow instead of August
7, as planned.
PRAYERS ARE SAID
BOSTON, July 31 — Cardinal
O'Connell sent the following tele
gram to Mrs. Harding:
“We are all deeply grieved be
cause of tbe illness of our beloved
President. Our priests, our religious
organizations and children of our
schools are offering prayers for his
speedy recovery.”
PRAYERS IN LEGISLATURE.
ATLANTA. July 31—The Chap
lains In both houses of the State
Legislature offerod prayers today for
the recovery of President Harding.
CONDITION BECOMES GRAVE
'PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUART
ERS, PAI-lACE HOTEL, SAN FRAN
CISCO, July 31. — (By Associated
Press.)—.President Harding's condi
tion became grave laet. night and
an announcement to that effect was
made after a consultation of five
(physicians, including Dr. Lyman
Wilbur, President of Stanford Uni
versity and President of the Ameri
can Medical Association, in attend
ance upon the Chief Executive.
The statement declared:
“Definite central patches of bron
cho pneumonia" had developed in
the right lung as indicated clinically
and by the X-ray.
The statement continued:
“While his condition is grave lie
is temperamentally well and adupted
to make a strong fight against in
fection.”
The development of pneumonia
was the one thing which Brigadier
General Sawyer, the President's per
sonal physician said less than two
hours earlier, he feared above almost
all else as a complication.
The President has some cough.
Mrs. Harding Is Nurse.
Mrs. Harding, when she left the
White House more than one month
ago, had recenlty recovered from a
serious illness and it wus feared the
hardships of the road might cause a
relapse. She left Tacoma July 5
one of the merriest and most vi
vacious members of the President’s
party and not until Fairbanks was
reached did she show the effects of
the strenuous life.
Then two days of rest restored
her strength and now’ she lias turn
ed nurse, still smiling in the face of
adverse fortune.
Battle Being Fought.
Dr. Saw’yor last night said a bat
tle was in progress between the
President's resistive forces, which
have been weakened by the trying
exertions of his travels, and the at
tacking forces grow’ing out of
ptomaine poisoning.
Wa§ Cheerful Yesterday.
President Harding took some’
nouisliment at noon yesterday and
physicians said he was somewhat
more cheerful than the day pre
vious.
Shortly before noon yesterday a
bulletin was issued stating the Presi
dent had spent a fairly comfortable
night. “His condition is acute He
has temporarily overstrained the
Cardin vascular system by carrying
on his speaking engagements while
ill.'
The statement said it was neces
sary for him to havo complete rest
during the period of acute symp
toms.
At 9 o’clock yesterday morning
Ills temperature was 100, pulse 118
and respiration 33.
The statement at that time said:
“Abomlnal symptoms following di
gest ivo disturbance he experienced
on the boat, is now localized in the
gall bladder region. There are no
peritoneal sypmtorns. The lungs are
clear. His kidneys are functioning
safely and there are no disturbances
of the nervous system except those
associated with fatigue "
OFFICIALS WORRIED.
WASHINGTON. July 31. — The
Cabinet and other officials showed
concern ovor the Illness of President
Harding by keeping constantly In
touch through the newspapers and
prose associations offices.
Secretary Hughes and others ask
ed that all Information coming over
the wires be given them Immed
iately.
The White House received the,
first word yesterday morning of thei
President’s serious Illness from a
bulletin of the Associated Press.
ILL 20 YEARS AGO.
MARION. July 31. — President
Harding suffered several attacks of
Jnfiipiiymtf0 vesrs Ago acqompan
thei
Indian Maiden Weds Filipino
* * * * * * * * *
Grandmother on Warpath
When Judge V. A. Paine Saturday
performer! the ceremony that made
Ellis C. Reyes, a Filipino, and Mary
Peterson. Indian, man and wife, he
came pretty near to starting warfare.
I For no sooner had the couple disap
J peared front sight and hearing than
| Mary's grandmother, an Auk Bay
Indian, appeared on the scene.
The elderly woman wanted to know
several things, most important of
which was had Mary and Reyes
been there to get married and when
Judge Paine admitted it was so and
that they got what they came for,
grandmother exploded with such force
(hat the rocky foundation of the
halls of justice on the hill above
heart but his condition was never
eerious according to friends. The
prcsest illness is the only one in
which his heart lias been affected
it is said.
PRAYERS ARE OFFERED. I
NEW YORK, July 31.—Prayers
for the recovery of President Hard
ing wore offered at a meeting last
night at the military training camp
at Plattsburg.
HENDERSON DIVERTED.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 31.—'The
navy transport Henderson has been
ordered diverted here from Sgn
Diego. The craft is to await orders
pending the President's illness.
CLOSED SEASON
LAW ON SALMON
TO BE ENFORCED
Shoup Announces Will Lay
Information Against Can
ners Breaking Law.
That criminal proceedings will be
instituted against salmon canneries
in Southeastern Alaska violating the
closed season law passed by the last
Territorial Legislature, was indi
cated today by U. S. Attorney A. G
Shoup who said his office would use
its utmost endeavors to enforce the
law as long as it was held to be
valid. The law does not cover other
than the first Division.
In addition to any action that
tnay bo taken by the United States
Attorney, tho Attorney General of
Alaska is directed by a resolution
passed by the Legislature to bring
suit to test the constitutionality of
the law. The terms of the re3olu*
tlon are specific, however, directing
the Attorney General to bring but
one such suit.
Ask Grand Jury Action.
Mr. Shoup, discussing the law,
said that information would be laid
before the Federal grand jury |
against every cannery violating thei
law. This moans that the season
for canning salmon in the Juneau
district ends August 10th, and in
the Ketchikan district on August
20th. Tho chased season in this
district extends to September 9th.
The local district comprises the
region lying between the 57th and
80th degrees north latitude and east
of the 1.89th meridian west longi
tude. Tho Ketchikan district em
braces the region south of the 57th
degree of north latitude to th*
southern border of tho Territory and
cast of the 139th meridian.
Penalties for violation include
ino or imprisonment or both. The
fines may range from $50 to $1,000
•'nd jail sentence from 10 days to
one year In the discretion of the
court.
The law was originally intro
duced by Representative T. C.
Price, of Anchorage. It was radi
cally different in form from the
pr< ent law which was substituted
in the Senate at the suggestion of
J. R. Heckman, of Ketchikan, who
is vice-chairman of the Territorial
Fi. h Commission,
I
WHO'S HERE
AND WHERE
»->
Mrs. Grace Bostwick, representa
tive of tho Fuller Brushes, arrived
in Juneau on the Admiral Robers
after a business trip of nearly two
months in the southern district. She
left on the Alameda for Anchorage
where she. will join her daughter
who is with the Alaska Road Com
mission there, and will maintain her
headquarters at that place.
Mrs. C. K. Michael, nee Miss Vir
ginia Laughltn, daughter of Mrs.
Oertrude Laughlln of Douglas, and
her infant daughter, arrived here on
the Alameda from Seattle to visit
with relatives at Douglas and Ju
neau.
Miss Marie Goldstein will leave
i>n the Admiral Rogers for Seattle
enroute to Berkeley. California, where
she will continue her studies at the
University of California.
At the Gastineau
Louis Wolfe. Louise Millies Cor
belt. W. R Lass, S. M. Higgins, C.
■Iakegren.
At the Zynda
S. S. Thornton.
At the Alaskan
V. Brown. .1 R. Miller. William
Stewart. 'W, .1. Richards. Alas kfee.
Hfljrt Lop don y qpmtniea; , '
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■ town shook mightily.
' When the eruption somewhat
r \ calmed, grandmother explained Mary
'had been her i harge since childhood
.1 and that she had been promised to
• ;a man of her own race as a wdfe.
i Mary, however, had other ideas and
• eloped with Reyes to put them into
• effect.
After she found that Judge Paine
j could give her no assistance, the
indignant eldery woman wanted to
know if she could take Mary away
| from her new husband. And when
the Judge said he didn't know, grand-1
mother started out to see tor her-1
! self just how far she could go. At
j ast reports she was still going.
RICH FINDS IN
! HYDER DISTRICT
I CAUSE STAMPEDE
; i
Texas Creek Scene of New
Strike in Which Good Ore
Said to Be Found.'
| -
Striker on Texas Creek in the
! Hyder district, on the American
side of the international border, aro
causing f stampede from Hyder and
other points in the southern end of
the Division, according to Informa
tion received at the Governor’s of-,
flee. Rock carrying high values is
said to have been uncovered caus
ing somo excitement among the
mining men in the district.
A. W. Fox, formerly Chief Clerk
in the office of Territorial Secretary
and now practicing law at Hyder,
told of the strike in a recent letter
to Gov. Scott C. Bone, in which
he eald:
“Two or three apparently great
strik&s have been made on Texas
Creek, which flows into Salmon
River. This menns a doubling tip of
the mineral territory on the Ameri
can r.ido. Seventy-five and ninety
dollar rock has been struck in large
quantity apparently—right at Texas'
Olacier. about 20 miles from here.
There Is a good trial there and
everybody who can get away is out
there. There will undoubtedly be a
coiiFidcrnplo stampede later — the
local pople are doing what they can
in that direction already. It locks
tike a very big thing and its im-i
portance cannot bo overestimated, j
The trail is a government one anil \
next year a road should be put in.
A large number of men have gone,
on over the glacier Into the Chick:'/-'
min and I’nuk country. The wliols
country from the 8almon River to
tho head of Texas is heavily min
eralized and somo wonderful rock is
coming In freni all parts. The
strike is not confined immediately
to the glacier neighborhood. All
Ttxas Creek is good.”
2 GOVERNMENTS
GET TOGETHER
TOKtO. July 31.—Preliminary con
servations which are planned to pave
the way for formal negotiations look
ing toward resumption of diplomatic
relations between Japan and Soviet
Russia governments, were concluded
this afternoon. It now remains for
the governments to determine wheth
er a satisfactory basis has been found
for the opening of the formal confer
ence.
WARSHIPS ARE TO BE
ASSEMBLED WHEN A.L
GATHERS IN FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—Twelve
j battleships, thirty-eight destroyers
i and numerous other vessels of the
battle fleet of the United States
navy will be in San Francisco Bay
October 15 to 19. in conjunction with
the fifth annual convention of the
American Legion, according to ad
vices from Theodore Roosevelt, act
ing secretary of the navy. Eleven
hundred commissioned officers and
twenty thousand men, nnder Admiral j
R. A. Coontz. commander-in-chlef of
the United States fleet, will consti
tute the personnel of the great ar
mada.
Vessels present are expected to
Include the battleships California,
Maryland. New York, Texas, Arizona,
Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Idaho and
Tennessee, and probably the Okla
homa, Mississippi and Nevada; the
armored cruiser Seattle, Admiral
Coontz's flagship; the destroyer-ten
der Melville; hospital ship Relief; the
destroyers Delphy, Chauncey, Fuller,
Percival, John Francis Burns, Farra
gut, Soipers, Stoddert, Reno, Far
quhar, Thompson. Kennedy, Paul
Hamilton,, William Jones, Woodbury,
8. P. Lee, Nicholas, Young, Zelien,
| McDermut, Yarborough, Lavalette,
I Sloat, Wood, Shirk, Kidder* Selfridge,
Marcus, Mervine, Chase, Robert
Smith. Mullany, Hill, McDonough.
Farenholdt, Sumner, Carry, Melvin
and many smaller vessela.
Miss Esther Muir left on the
i Princess Alice for the States where
j |he^yecfs tc^ ^encji school this win
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WET GA8 DISCOVERED
IN ALASKA COAL FIELD
j ANCHORAGE. Alaska, July 31. |
i —Discovery of wet gas 1,000 feet
I ' down in the Chlckaloon coal !
| fields, seventy-five miles north
east of here, has been confirmed |
by the United States geologocal
survey.
The discovery was made, ac- |
' cording to reports, with a dia- |
mond drill In prospecting for j
coal. Dr. Alfred Brooks. • former- j
| ly chief of the geological atir* j
1 vey, had expreSsfftl the opinion |
| that gas underlay this field.
j— -—.
SEN, UNDERWOOD
IS WILLING TO
. BE CANDIDATE
ivfONTOOMERY, Ala.. July 31. —
i iJted States Senator Oscar W.
i nderwood. addressing a oint ses
sion of the Statn i Legislature, de
dared that if the state delegation
at the next Democratic Nations'
convention named him for candidate
lor the nomination for Presidency,
ne would do all In his power to "lead
Democracy back into the White
House.”
SOVIETS WARN
HAROLD NOICE
NOME, July1 31.—-Harold N’cice, o'
Seattle, head of the party organized
to rescue the Crawford party oi
Wrangell Island, left there by Stef
ansson when the British flag was
raised, has been advised by the So
vlet authorities of East Cape, they
plan to seize his vessel unless ht
stops for proper clearance at Pat
ropavlosk and also calls at East Cape
to take aboard a detachtnent of Rus
sian guards for Wrangell Island.
Although Crawford claimed the is
land for the British, the Soviets
claim sovereignty and plan to send
guards to secure payment of fur
taxes.
Noice pl*>ns sailing on the Donald
son torr.orn v
BODY OF SMITHES
FOUND;BROUGHT HERE
The body of R. W. Smith, en
gineer on the F. T. Crosby, of the
Washington Tug & Barge Company,
fluatle, who was drowned Saturday
morning last in the lake at Pavlof
Harbor, was found at 3:30 o’clock
•ycsterdy afternoon where he had
sank, pinned beneath a log, by Emil
Jacobson, diver. The body was
brought' to Junean on Jacobson’s
boat, which arrived here at 9:30
o’clock this morning. It is at the
C. W. Young Undertaking Parlors
and no arrangements for Its dis
position will bo made until advice
is received from the tug and barge
company, which ha^ been notified of
his death by the U. S. Marshal's
office. Smith was drowned when a
small punt, In whiojh he had set out
on the lake to fish, capsized, throw
ing him Into the water.
E. H. Sherman, Deputy U. S. Mar
shal at Te.nakeo, who was sent to
Pavlof Harbor by Marshal Beau
mont, to conduct the search for the
body, accompanied It to Juneau.
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BUFORD’SAILS
FROM JUNEAU FOR
SIBERIAN COAST
Trade Delegation from San
Francisco Aboard Spends
30 Hours in Juneau.
With all flags flying, the lights
of the emblem of Islam Temple,
Ancient and Arabic Order of Mystic
Shrine, shining in an array of color
from the masts and the passengers
aboard singing Alohac, the steamer
Buford, Capt. L. L. Lane, of the
Alaskan-Siberian Navigation Co.,
sailed out into Gastinetau Channel
from Juneau at midnight last night,
enroute to Siberia by way of the
Alaskan coast, thence to San Fran-j
cisco when it will have completed:
a trip of 48 dayR. with a delegation |
ot the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce. The Buford arrived in|
)Tuneau Sunday afternoon from thej
South.
Ttio Admiral Lino dock, where the,
hip was held, was crowded withj
ti’ieau people at 11 o’clock list]
light when the Buford was ached I
uled to sail. On account of the fogj
it was announced the ship would be
hell in port until an hour later and;
i general invitation was extended!
or dancing aboard chip. An en- j
ioyable time was spent by passengers,
ind townspeople until midnight
when the cart off whistle was blown.:
Hu. music for dancing was furnished!
by the Six Brown Brothers.
7 tie passengers aboard the Buford!
spent about 30 hours in Juneau, j
visiting places of interest, renewing
old friendships with residents he-e
and meeting new friends. Eighteen
Nobles from Islam Temple. San;
Francisco, who are members of th ‘
trad* delegation, and their ladies,
were entertained by the Southeast
ern Alaska Shrine Club.
The Buford is taking passengers
at Alaska ports who wish to mak"
the trip. One passenger from Ket
chikan and Miss Phyllis Denee ot
Juneau left from this place.
NO
JITNEY DANCE
TONIGHT
AT THE
A. B. HALL
Tomorrow night come
and dance all you
want for 50c.
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i GARN1CK WILL TAKE UP
BUCHANAN OFFER AFTER
FINISHES LOCAL SCHOOL
Edward Garnick, son of Mr. and
Mr.v Frank Garnick, who was chosen
ty the Juneau Boy Scouts to accept
the offer made by George B. Buch
anan, millionaire of Detroit, to aid
a member of the local organization
to obtain a year's schooling in the
States, has decided to postpone ac
ceptance of the offer until he has
completed his two' yrars high school
work, remaining in Juneau. Mr.
Buchanan has continued his offer
indefinitely and will keep in touch
with young Garnick untH the latter
Is ready to tsrtto up advanced schol
astic work.
Mr. Buchanan passed through Ju
neau this morning on the steamer
Princess Alice, enroute to the States,
with his party of 34 Boy Scouts
from Michigan, Indiana and Canada,
for whom he made possible the trip
to the north. They have spent the
past week in the Atlin district.
While the steamer was in port
Mr. Buchanan conferred with Gar
I nick and AfelBtant. .SHont, Master Ai.
S. Whittier 'roncerirln* HI? 'offer 10
the Juneau Boy Scouts, when defin
ite arrangements were made. Buch
anan holds the offer the same 'as
that which he extended to the bqys
who accompanied him' on the Alas
kan trip. He pays one third .th’e
expenses, the boy one third and
the boy's parents one third.
Gr.rnick has worked during tl$e
summers the past several yearB and
haa ample funds to pay his share
ol the expense but ho feels he iyfti
receive greater benefit if he com
j pletes his high school work in the
Juneau schools before taking; up
! Buchanan's offer He Is 16 years
of age and stands well In his
scholastic work He is also a pro
Ocient performer on the cornet,
which he has been studying the past
five years and is one of the most
prominent of the Scouts, being a
patrol leader. ;
Mrs. Nancy E. Acklen and her
daughter, Mrs. J. W. Foley and the
latter's two little daughters left this
morning on the Princess Alice for
the States. They expect to spend
several weeks visiting with friends.
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