The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-19
MYsrsRioUs COMMUNICATION.

Bill Nye, in Denver Opinion.l
 Lately 1 have received ~General osder printed h due form and signed as follows. ,s-wit:
 OrR KING IsHovAH. Seal The Prophet like Moses, the shiloh. jos. E. E. Assss.. Seal
 These signatures. or al leAxs the letter, is duly acknowledged before a justice of the peace, and the official character sig nature of the justiee are certified by the clerk of court of record in due form. with the seal of the court attached. write this more to obtain information than anything else. l am positive that the legal requirements have been com piled with as to acknowledgement cer,,h- cate etc aud yet have not full confidence in the authenticity of this General Order. l do no; knos that II has been very gen. eraily distributed, hu, some one who reads this may have receaved one and may be able to tell me more about it. 50 far as the order itself Is concerned, |, doesn' contain much tha, couldn't con- sis,en,ly comply ~ith if though, there vas no doubi abou, the authenticity. am therefore anxious to obtain light on the subtec, before drop my other work 1, and go to filling the order.
 Who is Joe l.. F. Marsh. Was he the choice of the convention. or Is he running independent, parting hss hair and his pol stics in the m,ddles dexire to know all about Mir. Marsh as a prophet and Shi- lch before can hll tnls order Under our statutes VIC are bound 10 g,ve the sig nature, acknowledgement and certificate due cIedence. hu, when prophet comes i to me with General Order 1 now ask him to be identihed. Am right in this, or am l not: have have been here ,ofere imposed upon by fraudulen, and adul;erated prophets making such repre- seniations as this one does, thus gaining my tfus, and confidence only 10 dash them to earth. leaving me to be sneered and laughed al by my feilow-men. This has taught me to be cautious. ls has soured me toward irregular, itineran, prophets who are not regularly nom,na. ted.
 Will anyone, therefore, who knows this Shiloh please write me fully as to whether he may be trusted or not. l am holding the order, awaiting the report of the com mittee on credentials.
 remember a man who passed through Wyoming several years ago and came out where was doing assessment worl on the Overdraf claim. He allowed h< was John the Baptist. and as the locus and wild honey crop was little shor' along the foothills of the Medicine Bow range that season. he settled down tc baked beans and grown persons doss between meals of common spirits. Ons day the light air and responsibility ane beans made him giddy, and he fell dowr the perpendicular shat, of the Overhaul and t took some time 10 win John ths Baptist back to his business. Meantime partner of mine who generally pounded on the drill while held It, and whoss . nom de plume was Doubling Thomai Jennings, overhauled the pockets of th, ,nsensible prophet and pro bono publice . proolaimer from rroclamationville. w, found letters in his pocke, by which | appeared that he was no, John the Rap tist at all. No, in the slightes, degree
 His name wasn't even John. It wal Cnionforever Finnicky, and he had wiis and partial family circle in every count, in Missouri.
 |. That is one reason shy may be re garded as cynical on the subject of proph cts. Perhaps am unduly so. No dcub am ovezdoing this thing, but if you 'd seen the way the boys turned me over or that bogus John the Baptist deal, 70, would no. wonder that my rules in regarc . to the recognition of Prophets and Shi loks are now very stringent. It will be | cold day when another Missouri John the Baptist, wearing pantaloons held il place and caught back with an Euuseai fenoe-nail, can pave h,s digestive caverr with my baked beans and other brain food. You hear me.