Arizona republican., 1903-07-10
HOPE FLOWN LeO'S Life Measured By Days, May Be by Hours
 DOCTORS SILENT As to the Time When the
 ind May Come. Tilt CARDINALS CALLED From all Parts of the World to Choose Successor to the Slowly Sinking
Tilt CARDINALS CALLED
From all Parts of the World to Choose a Successor to the Slowly Sinking Head of the Church.

Rome, July 10.-2 a. m.-Another day of alternate hopes and fears has pass ed and Pope Leo's life still hangs in the balance. Beginning with renewed hopes, the day closed with the scales tending slowly but surely downward. How long this period of suffering will last not even the attending doctors care to say. The condition of Pope Leo at times yesterday morning seemed so favorable that the hopeful Dr. Mazzoni and the more conservative Lapponi united in expressing a belief that there was some slight prospect of recovery, but within a few hours these brighter prospects disappeared before the most alarming conclusions reached after lengthy consultation of the doctors.
 The earlier hopes had been inspired largely by the pontiff's outward evil dence of vigor, as he was able to rise. walk and command all his faculties. but the later consultation disclosed that these outward evidences of strength were entirely deceptive. as the real danger consisted in the gradual internal progress of the insidious dis eases.
 The mere fact of the consultation in itself gave rise to the gloOmiest fore
 
 tual consultation. as the previous fre- quent meetings of the doctors were not regarded as formal consultations. To- day, however. Isossini, the distinguish ed specialist of the Baeceni school. was called into a consultation lasting two hours. during which every phase of the patients case was minutely gone over. The conclusions announced, showed that liquid is again gathering in the pleura cavity, and that the pope's gen eral condition is very grave.
 Following the issuance of this bulle- tin, the doctors freely expressed their personal convictions regarding the ex- treme gravity of the case. Dr. Lap poni said, without qualification, that the patients condition was beyond hope. He did not expect a final col lapse tonight, but rather a gradual sinking until the end came. How long the sufferer may last, the doctors will not venture any prognostication. Ordi- nary calculations, they say, fail to ap- ply to this extraordinary case.
 One of them remarked today: Here is a man almost a hundred years old retaining all his mental and most of his physical faculties and bravely com batting the approach of death. Al though the conditions change from hour to hour. the essential conditions of mental alertness and physical vigor continue unbroken. Never yet has there been the slightest lapse into in coherency."
 Whatever may be the outcome. the vatican world has fully made up its mind that the demise of the pope is on- ly a question of days at the most, and probably only of hours. With this being the prevalent view, every detail for conducting the affairs of the church during the interregnum and for car rying out the election Of Pope Leo's successor. is systematically arranged Following advices from the vatican the cardinals throughout the world are hurrying homeward, anticipating the holding of conclave for the choice of a pope. The preparations are undertak- en in a spirit of profound grief. and as the performance of a sacred duty.