Arizona republican., 1919-01-07

ttOntlnued from Page One) the White House, and who was sitting at the foot of his bed.
 Negro Gives the Alarm.
 Some time later Amos noticed that the patient was breathing heavily and became alarmed He left the room to call the nurse who had been summoned from Oyster Bay yesterday When they returned. Colonel Roosevelt had breathed his last. They called Mrs. Roosevelt, the only member of the fam fly who was a home There had been 8 family gathering Christmas day but as no alarm was felt over the colonel's condition, the children who were able to spend the holiday with their parents had gone to different parts of the coun- try.
 Cable messages were sent to Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Captain Kermit Roosevelt, who are in service in France. and telegrams to Mrs. Nich- olas Longworth, to Captain Archie, who left yesterday with his wife for Bos- ton. where his father-in law died Sat urday, and to Mrs. Ethel Derby, who is in Aiken. South Carolina, with her two children.
 Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to her husbands cousin. Colonel Emlen Roose- welt of New York. who started imme- diatelY for Oyster Bay, and to the coloneTs secretary. Miss Josephine Stricker, who also was in New York Miss Stricker gave the sad news to the world through The Associated Press. Colonel Roosevelt was visited twice last evening by Dr. J. A. Taller of this village. At 10:3 o'clock, when the second visit was made, the patient ex- plained to the physician, T felt as though my heart was going 10 stop beating" Dr. Taller had no reason to believe that Mir. Roosevelt was in any . immediate danger. So certain was he { that this was true, that Mrs. Roosevelt and the nurse retired.
 Seemed We'll Sunday. One of Colonel Rooseyelts New York physicians visited him Friday, but al though the former president was sui fering some pain from the rheumatism, he made light of it. laughing and chat ting without restraint.
 Colonel Roosevelt called to Sagamore i Hill yesterday, a village barber, whose work he liked.
 I'm feeling bully, John." he said. but I sent for you because l don't feel like shaving myself today, so get ready"
 Colonel Roosevelt's final illness dated from last February. It was on the fifth of that month. that, following an opera = tion on one of his ears, he was removed from Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt Hos- pitaI in New York He remained there until March 3, meanwhile undergoing two more operations. Two months later he insisted on keeping speaking engagements arranged for him in many ojt ha fC give from the platform his views CT internationl affairs.
 In November he was forced to re- tuin to the hospital for treatment ot rheumatism. Today, through an an nouncement by his physicians, con Cernipg the cause of his death. it be came known that three weeks before he left the h0smt3l to rctfi. Il to Saga
 move Hill, on Christmas Day, he hac suffered a pulmonary embolism whicl nearly proved fatal.
 Speaking for Mrs. Roosevelt, ". Elm len Roosevelt, the former president! cousin. issued the following statemen by the attending physicians:
 Colonel Roosevelt had been suffer
 ing from an attack of inflamator. rheuma tism for about two months. Hi
 progress had been entirely satisfactor, and his condition had not given caus , for especial concern.
 "On Sunday he was in good spirit and spent the evening with his family : dictating letters. He retired at II I m and about a. m. his man, who oc cupied an adjoining room, noticed tha while sleeping quietly, Colonel Roose : velt's breathing was becoming yer heavy.
 He died almost instantly, withou awakening from what seemed to be
 natural sleep. The cause of his deat was embolus.
 "Dr. c. W. Taller