St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-19
TWO SYRIAN FkKIRS.
Yashitek and Sheatek, The
Holy Land Dromios, Work
the City.
They Are Finally Exposed,
and May Be Arrested if
Caught.
The Gay Arreola Is Engaged
to Marry a Nicollet ISL
and Girl.
DR.. Sample breaches at the
Lyceum--The Congrega-
tional Associa ton.

1t is a well known fact that the Yam
KEGS have made trips to the Holy Land
and victimiZed the inhabitants with
fakes of various kinds. but it is not
common thing to have residents of the
Holy Land come to America and victim
lze the Yankees. The Holy Land con-
fidence men generally work the beggar
racket. The same old game is being
worked in the city now, and it is likely
that before long the police will
have several distinguished Asiatic
guests in the city jails. During
the past week the city has
been worked by two clever fakirs. who,
under the garb of humble ecclesiasts,
have managed to carry off quite lot of
Minneapolis money. These two fakirs
are Syrians, wear long and priestly
whlskerS, dress in Sackcloth and ashes,
and are fluent linguists. In fact, they
are "rare aves," and speak the English
language almost as well as they do their
native tongue. The names of this tai
ented duo are Yashitek and Sheatek.
Yashitek has the longest whiskers, but
Sheatak has the longest tongue. A
combination of the two, it will
ly formidable to the beneyolently
inclined. Yashitek and Sheatek came
to the city. and at once began a canvass
of the various Catholic parishes. They
were in America, they said TO some, for
the purpose OF raising money to bring
their people to this country and estab-
liSh them in colony where they could
earn their own living. To others they
said they were raising money to build a
hospital for the sick of their portion of
Syria. The people of Syria were too
poor to build the hospital. but with the
aid OF God and the good people of Amer
lea it would be built just the same.
They went from parish to parish and
sang flrst one song and then another. 1t
mattered not il the parish were aFrench,
German or English one. They tackled
them all, and reaped quite a harvest.
But they ran againsta stump in the per-
son of Rev. Joseph A. Soumis, of the
Notre Dame de LOurdes church. on the
East side. When they came to Rev.
Soumls he asked them for their papers
and letters from Archbishop Ireland
giving them permission to beg in this
diocese III the cause of religion. Of
course they had no letters from
the archbishop, though they had secured
letters from several priests of this city
whom they had taken in with their
plausible talk. Father Yezbek, the
Arabian priest, who was in the city in
Dehaif OF the unfortunate people of his
wild country, happened to meet the
fakirs and soon exposed them. He in
formed Rev. Soumis of the character of
the men, and that reverend gentleman
politely told them that If they showed
their faces around his chnrch again he
would have them arrested. Patrolman
Zeloski met Yashitek and Sheatek when
they came to the city and assisted them
in many ways, believing them to be
worthy. Now that he has learned who
and what they are. he will arrest them
as soon as an opportunity offers itself,
and lock them up on the charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
Rev. Soumis said yesterday that the
men were HISTORIANS, followers IN the
footsteps OF NestoriuS, patriarch of Con-
stantinople in the fifth century, who
was deposed and condemned as hereto
for maintaining that the two natures in
Christ were not so blended and con-
founded as to be indistinguishable.