THE ALASKA. DAILY EMPIRE
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-ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL XXII., NO. 3312.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS.
Harding Continues to Improve; Feeling Much Easier
TEMPERATURE OF
PRESIDENT NOW
REACHESNORMAL
Harding Spends Second Rest
ful Night—Light Causes
Much Apprehension.
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PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUART
ERS,. San Francisco, Aug. 2.—Presi
dent Harding spent a restful night
which is the second within 48 hours. |
His temperature thl3 morning was
normal. Dr. Sawyer stated officially,
after visiting his patient. The Presi-i
dent's respiration was 36 and pulse;
110.
Dr. Sawyer's announcement set at
rest apprehension by watchers who
•aw a light burning in the President's ]
bedroom during the night but this,
was explained when it was learned
that Dr. Boone caused the light to
burn.
The attending physicians officially;
bulletined at 9:45 o'clock this fore
noon saying President Harding had
several hours restful sleep and ex
cept for a marked exhaustion of
acute illness, had expressed himself
as "feeling easier."
The physicians' bulletin continues:
"Temperature Is 98.2, pulse 100, res
piration from S3 to 40. Lung condi
tions shows definite Improvement, j
Small quantities of food are being
taken and elimination remains satis
factory. While recovery will inevlt-j
ably take some little time we are!
moire confident than heretofore as
to the outcome of the illness."
Temperature Normal.
At 3:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
President Harding, for the first time
since he became 111, reached normal
temperature of 98.6
Sister Arrive*.
Mrs. E. M. Remsburg. of Santa Ana.!
the President's sister, arrived yester
day afternoon and spent a few mo
ments at the bedside of her brother.
Sfie was the first visitor except
Jiira. Harding, physicians and nurses.
She left the sick room quite opti
mistic. Mrs. Remsburg and her two
daughters will remain at the hotel
until the President recovers.
Zone Eetabliehed.
A rone has been established around
the Palace hotel where the Presi
dent Is stopping. Street cars proceed
without sounding their bells. Traffic
officers warn autolsta not to pound
their horns.
Dauqherty in ’Frisco.
Attorney Oeneral Daugherty arrived
late yesterday after a hurried trip
from Seattle and called at the Presi
dent's suite hut did not visit the
Chief Executive saying he believed It
would be better not to dlshurb his
rest In any manner.
LONDON, Autftyt 2i — .bonylon'it
atmosphere is said by experts to be
the smokiest and most polluted in!
the world. At 10 o’clock one day;
recently 70 tons of soot were float
ing about the capital. Twenty tonej
Is an average amount for any dayj
In June. '
DEPORTS SLUMP IN METALS IN
WESTsCOPPER NOW BELOW PEAK
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 —Steady
declines in the price of many metala
throughout the Twelfth Federal Re
serve District, were noted In the
monthly report of John Perrin, San
Tganclsco. made public here.
Mr. Perrin’s report, which covers
conditions In Oregon. Washington,
CaHtornla, Nevada. Idaho, Utah and ,
Arizona, shows that the present quo-j
tations for copper are 11 per cent!
below the peak levels of March 1923,!
while those of dead are 13 per cent
below, stiver 4 per cent and sine 21
per cent below.
k The effect of this situation on pro
duction of metals throughout the dis
trict has been accentuated by com
pletion of government purchases of
domestic sliver under the Pittman
Act of 1918, which fixed the price at
which the government must buy silver
at |1 an ounce. Final tenders of
ailver under this act were accepted
by the director of the mint of June
2, 1923, and domestic sliver mined
thereafter must be sold on the open
market. The average open market
price for ailter during June was <5
HER ROMANCE BEGAN AT TUT ANKH AMEN’S TOMB.
champ, ton of Sir Edward Beauchamp. Lady Herbert was tier
father's etn slant companiou during the discovery of the tomb of
King Tut-ankh-Ameu, in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor,
Hgypt and met her hnwbund-to-be when he visited the ruins. His
Beauchamp i« half American, his mother having been the daugh
ter of the late Archibald Woods, of Columbus, Ohio.
STATE OF WAR STILL EXISTS
IN IRELAND IS COURT RULING
“Denby for
Presidency” Club
j Is Planned
^ CHICAGO. Aug. 2. — Former
| members of the Marine Corps
plan an organization of a "Den
by for President" rlub. This Is
according to Charles G. Blake, ;
| heading the movement. An or
ganization meeting will be called
[ for August 7. Denby Is secre- \
tary of the navy.
George Mansfield Out
For Senator in Oregon
PORTLAND. Aug. 2.—George Mans
field, of Jackson County, former Pres
ident of the State Farm Bureau, for
mally announced his condidacy tor
United States Senator.
cents an ounre, and the mines which
produce silver only have thus been
seriously affected, many being forced
to shut down. Lead mines of the
district which also produce large
quantities of silver, have, however,
generally maintained production at
previous levels.
Copper and sine mines have been
less affected by developments in the
silver market than silver and lead
mines. Their response in curtailed
production to the price declines has
thus far been limited. The large sixe
of most of the copper operations
makes it difficult’to adjust output to
fluctuations of the market which may
prove to be temporary, and no de
cline of copper production has fol
lowed the fall in prices of this'metal.
A significant feature of the copper
market during June was the report
of the Copper Export Association
that 400,000,000 pounds of copper
marked for export In 1921 has now
been completely sold.
Production of xinc during June was
■lightly less than in the previous
month in Utah, but unchanged in
Idaho.
DUBLIN. Auguet 2. -^-Tlie Court
of Appeals in the liubeas corpus ease
of Mrs. Nora Connolly O'Brien de
cided that a stale of war exists in
Ireland reversing the opinion of the
Master of Rolls.
TJve government fought hard for
a decision that war docs not exist
as the ruling governs the status of
thousands of prisoners held under a
plea of military necessity.
Jn preparation for the adverse de
cision. the government has a bill
authorizing continuance of suoh im
prisonment for three months, al
most through legislative stuges.
Held for Alleged Murder
Of Her Wealthy Husband
LOS ANGELES, August 2. — Mrs.
Walburga Oesterreich, at tho con
clusion of the preliminary hearing,
which lasted several days in the
township court, was held to the Su
perior Court, baiiless, on a charge
of murdering her husband, Ered
Oesterreich, wealthy apron manu
facturer, about a year gao.
Mentally Deranged;
Kills Son, Suicides
SAN JOSE. Cal., Aug. 2. — Mrs.
Julius Lindens!ruth, aged ,26 years,
wife of Magor Julius Lindenstruth.
retired army officer, shot and killed
her 13-year-old son Arthur, this af
ternoon, then suicided. She left a
note indicating mental derangement.
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| GAMBLING SQUAW
I LO8E8 BLANKETS,
| HORSE, HUSBAND j
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YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 2.—In I
i connection with the Waterloo I
suffered by Yakima Indian wo- !
men at the hands of visiting
I women from the Pendleton tribe
in a bone game at the annual
! summer celebration of the In- I
| dians which closed a few days I
) ago, it is stated that one Yakima T
' squaw lost not only her horses,
| blankets and other personal
! property, but also her husband.
As a gambling debt is sacred i
| among Indians, members of the [
I tribe said here that the unlucky I
| wife had lost all claim on her !
I man, but added that the loss !
was not so serious, since he had
only a small allotment and drove
nothing but a small car.
GREAT BRITAIN
CITES OtD CASE
ON PROHIBITION
American Instructions ol
Years Ago Bob Up in
House of Commons.
LX DON, Aug. 2. -l:i (he House of
Commons during the grist of 'ques
tions and answers ('nm-erning Ameri
can prohibition, Sir William Davidson
asked Ronald McNeill, folder Seere
tary of foreign affairs, whether the
attention of thai government hat'
been called to a djUtpatch forwarded
by the American government, years
ago to the Spanish government, which
while admitting the legal rights of
every nation to prescribe condition?
under which foreign vessels should
he admitted to their ports, laid down
that these conditions must not con
filet with the well known ami lour
established usage of commercial In
tercourse between > tvilircd nations '
Sir William *<id the despatch war
quoted in i»fer||#no,.a! law.
McNeill said (lie dispatch woo'd h
called to the attention of the Amert
can government.
No Precedent I* Set.
WASHINGTON, Aug 2. The State
Department ha* unearthed (he In
structlons cited In the House of Com
mons which were sent in 1857 to the
American Minister In Madrid. The
Instructions protested ugainst the re
fusal to let an American ship larry
ing mall to land at Havana because
the purser had "published the gi'ORS
lest calumnies agfmst the govern
ment of the Island."
State offielals declare the instruc
tions set no prec edent as applying to
prohibition lawH of the United States
which laws are well known to all
nations.
OFF TO EOOOPE
TO BET FACTS
ON CONDITIONS
Senator LaFollette Sails
Across Pond — to Be
Able to Call Bluffs.
NEW YORK, August 2.—Declar
ing that he intended to obtain first
hand information of conditions In
Europe so that my “constituents will
have nothing on me," Senator Rob
ert M. Da Pol let te, of Wisconsin,
sailed teday on the Ueorge Wash
ington with four United States
Senators who are to attend the
In'ir-Allied Parliamentary Union at
Geneva. The other Senators were
McKellar of Tennessee; McKinley
of Illinois; Robinson or Arkunsas
and Swanson of Virginia.
Denver Bankers Sentenced
To Prison; Embezzlement
DENVER, August 2. — Leo P.
Floyd, secretary, and John Harring
ton, teller, entered pleas of guilty
today on the charge of embezzlement
of $22,000 from the closed Hibernia
Bank & Trust Company.
The two young men were sen
tenced to serve drom four to ten
years in prison.
The total shortage of funds is
said to have reached $443,000.
Relatives of Italian
King Coming to Juneau
VANCOUVER, B. C„ August 2.—
Duchess of Asta and Dnke of Spoi
Eto, relatives of the Italian King,
left on the Princess Louise last j
night for a short trip to Southeast
ern Alaska. Upon their return they j
will go direct to Italy.
Samuel Silverman Buys
In Company at Hyderj
VANCOUVER, B. C„ August 2.— ]
rhe American Mining a Milling
Clompauy, which owns and controla
the Fish Creek Mining Company.
Hyder District. Alaska, announces
that Samuel Silverman, of New
York, has purchased from W. R.
Tonkin a substantial Interest in the
American Company.
S. E. Alaska Salmon Pack!
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May Be (’lose to Average
SEATTLE. Auymt L’. Heiiorts
irom cauuarled and tin ;r demand
for cargo space Indicate the salmon
t»Q< k in Scutheas tern Alaska will be
cKi to the average. The Admiral
.\'ic hoi . >m has arrived with 19,000 j
toilThe Pacific Steamship Com*I
r.an.v r Xpert a to liandle 200,000 cases|
by St p; i in her 1.
EX-RULERS OF PoR FUGAL IN ENGLAND.
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Two of the most diet in gut shed guests to attend the' lawn utams
exhibition given by Lady W a vet roe at Sussex Palace, Regents'
Park, London, were ex-King Manuel and ex-Queen Victoria, deposed
rulers of Portugal. They seem to be in jovial mood.
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| Tears Are Amiss
i In Business;
Advice to Women
| New York, Aug. 2. — Women
j to succeed In business must learn
] to dress comfortably without los
! lug the charm of their sex, and
J to take correction from the boss
I without weeping, according to
: Mrs. Alice Foote MackDougall,
| New York business woman. |
I Mrs. Mac Dougall, who predlct
j ed recently that within a century
| women will be “doing all the bus!- |
! ness" said that the observance
I of a few ' simple rules would 1
| hasten the time when they would i
I take over such control. Other
I suggestions were:
| "Discuss abstract questions
| without making personal appll
j cation of everything that Is said.” 1
“Stick to agreements without !
1 squirming If you are getting the !
worst of it ”
! “Ray ‘no’ at the right ttme."^
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“Dynamite" Package
Contains Stolen Goods
VANCOUVER, R C„ Aug. 2 A
package inscribed with the word "dy
namite" and addressed to the local
police station caused a stir in the
local postoffice. When opened by the
police It proved to contain $700 In
Victory bonds and several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry, all stolen
goods, which will he returned to their
owners, in Vancouver. Not the slight
est cine accompanied the parcel as
to the sender's motive for returning
the valuables.
JAMESTOWN. N. V . Aug 2. —
Alpheus Hodges, aged 81 years, of
ficially recognized as the man who
fired the first shot of the Union
Army at the Hattie of Gettysburg.
dJgd here today.
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SISTER SUES i<
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ALASKA CASE,
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SKATTL.K, Augilit 2. Ml's. Anna |
C. Jackson, of 1/os Angolos, has flledl
suit against her brother. Charles T.
filler, .Seattle real estate man, do- 1
I mantling an accounting of hlait
handling of the estate of IllO.OOOjs
.of her former husband. Mark L.1 r.
I Sullivan, who was an Alaskan at- i
tornoy. 1
Mrs. Jackson alleges Suter failed, (
to transmit to her and to Miss Alycej t
t'.lulro Sullivan their share of the I
returns on loans made by Suter. t
STATISTICS SHOW SUM MEN
HAVE BEST HOPE OF HEALTH
NEW YORK. Aug. Thirty U
the magical age In the health de
velopment of the ordinary person’s
life. At thirty lie la supposed more
nearly to approach the normal, llnder
thirty he may well weigh a number
of pounds above the average called i
for In the standard height, weight and
age tables, but after thirty the long
est life span prevails among those
whose weights are uniformly below
the average, according to figures
| compiled by the Metropolitan Life
, Insurance Company, of this city, and
I given out by the American Child j
* Health Association.
The association asks everyone to j
I keep truck of his or her weight, and
, to remedy any excess by diet and j
I right living
In a statement accompanying the
figures Dr. T,onls T. Dublin, of the l
REPARATIONS
AGAIN CAUSES
MOREJROUBLE
Great Britain and France Par
Apart on Solution of
German Payments.
NO REPLY IS MADE TO
PROPOSALS OF BRITISH
France and Beligium, in Re
cent Notes, Do Not Men
tion Allied Reply.
LONDON, August 2. — Premier
Baldwin and Earl Curzon summar
zing before both Houses of Parlia
nent resulting from the lateat Brit
rh attempt to lay a foundation for
i reparations policy indicated that
treat Britain and France stand
arthtr apait than the British people
r the woild at large knows.
The two British officials revealed
he fact that the latest communica
iens frem France and Belgium did
Let fuinirh material for an Allied
c)ly upon the Pritish proposals and
ndic8tid a surprising deadlock.
Neither the French nor Belgium
(plies mentioned the draft of the
tote which preat Britain submitted
* a basis for the Allied reply.
JHICHAGOF MINE
SALE PROPOSED;
OPTION GRANTED
ieorge T. Jackson and W. A.
Castleton Negotiating
for Mine Purchase.
With an option for the purchase of
tin mine ami all the property of the
'hlchagof Mining Company on Chli h
gof Island, George T. Jackson, for
terly General Manager of the Alaska
lastlneau Gold Mining Company, and
V. A. Castleton. of Seattle, Prestdeut
f the Hlrst-Chlchagof Mining Com
any, left Juneau Tuesday evening
or Chichagof. The purchase price
a mod in the option has not been
lade public.
Mr. Jackson spent several days on
'hichagof Island last mouth and on
Is return to the States secured an
ption on the property. He and Mr.
'astleton will spend some time go
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battleship Building
Vogram of U. S. Off
'or Ten Year*
WASHINGTON, August 2. — The
ow raperdre&dnought Colorado will
e commissioned August 30. It is
nnouni-ed tliat the Colorado and
leier ship, the West Virginia, which
) nearing completion, will be the
ist battleships constructed in this
Duntry lor tbo next 10 years under
lie naval limitations treaty. The
wo new battleships will replace
le Delaware and North Dakota.
Insurance company, who compiled
them, says:
"After thirty, people who weigh
less than the average have a better
chance for long life, the records of
the Insurance companies show. After
this age it Is a decided advantage to
be slight and a serious handicap to
gain materially in weight: provided,
of course, that the light weight Is
not the result of a sudden loss in
weight which may be the result of
organic diseases.'
“But the weight tables posted on
public scales,” he continues, "should
not be taken too literally. Young
person may well weigh a number of
poands above the average called for
by the tables. An excess of ten
pounds Is associated with the most
j favorable conditions among people
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