The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-19
Extravaganza of the Founder of a
New Cult.
HIS TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE.
Montgomery Has Not Yet Got His
Money and the Divine Is
Showing Fight.

| Mr.. Poage another tweDty-four hours in
which to settle. The time limit was
| therefore fixed at II o'clock this morning
after which hour no further leniency will
be shown toward the founder of the cult
in which hell is eliminated and annihila-
| ton announced to be the lot Of the wicked.
The reverend gentleman is. however.
| showing an aggressive disposition and for
| a minister of grace is lamentably lacking
in the spirit that would prompt him to
turn the other cheek to the smiter when
one had been thumped. Seth Mann is his
attorney and he has called upon Mr.. Jor-
dan several times, but can get no arrange
ment calculated TO have a rest
full effect on his client. But yes terday Mr.
Mann said that Charles Montgomery has
placed himself in peculiar position
Said he: al do not see what possessed him
TO make this move. He has in his DOS
session a mill worth $500. He put up as
security some hotel stock of doubtful
value, which was to be realized on TO carry
out the original agreement, and now he is
kicking because Poage will not give MP
the difference in the cost of the mill and
what Poage bought it for. The same thing
is done every day in business and in every
trade only in different ways.
Mr.. Montgomery cheerfully admits that
the thing is done every day. but cannot
see how if he agreed TO pay Mr.. Poage cost
price for thing the divine should charge
him double for ii. and then try to persuade
him that cost" meant what Montgomery
paid for it and not what Poage paid for it.
1t is remarkable what an amount of
friendly interest in Poage is being de-
veioped in all quarters. Most pathetic
"reminiscences of his activity in mines
and finances are being snapped on the
Pine-street curb. One deal of the reverend
gentleman was large enough TO have ex-
cited the attention of Napoleon Ives.
The story of the Eclipse mine is a sore
remembrance TO many. W. l. Bevan re-
members it we'll, so do j. P. Pattisun and
William Russell of Auburn, 'Ioyeliest VIII
lage of the plain"
Il seems that about four years ago Mr..
Poage came from New York as the repre-
sentative of Gotham stockholders of the
Eclipse mine. which is in the Ophir dis
trict, in Placer County. He was appointed
general manager. j. P. PsItson was made
superintendent and Edward Irwin. a
brother-in-law of Poage. was assistant
The Eclipse at the time assayed from SIS to
$50 ton, and there was a 10-stamp mill
on the property. Poage doomed the stock.
unloading thousands of shares, and among
them taking in local society woman for
$4,000 worth of stock. The Eastern share
holders paid to Poage in assessments some
$4,000. They didn't get cent in return.
and finally the employees of the mine put a
lien on the property for $4,000 for back
pay. Poage followed this up with second
lien for $4,000 for his salary. There was a
general settlement in the end, whereby
Mr.. Bevan bought the mine for $4,000
and the hands were paid off.
The New Workers made a gigantic aud
la boricus kick. They wanted an account
ing and they got 1t. but the reverend
Poage could only account for $4,000 AS
Pnage had nothing seiZable the New
Workers. went home disgruntled. but, SAYS
MIR. Bevan, ''if ever Poage goes back to
New York these people will make it so
hot for him that he'll think If there isn't a
hell herea fter there is at least ope on
EARTH"
''And he can't go back TO Chicago"
chimed in a man who heard the remark.
Poage arrested before the traces of bis
footsteps grew warm on the pavement.
You see Farwell is out $4,000 on the Eu-
reka mine in Mono County. another old
time scheme of his, and Farwell swears Ii
was Sailed on him."
The cause of Mr.. Poage's schemes and
speculatioDs. it is now asserted by his
fren DIS, was his wife. She inspired his
deals. they say. by her extravaganza.
Poage married her in New York years ago.
but whether she, like Nellie Bly,, had an
swered his advertisement for wife is not
known. When he brought her here the
money few Nothing was too good for the
P0age establishment. a thousand dollars
in these halcyon times would not last the
couple more than ten days. But scandal
soon dispelled the gilded happiness OF the
Poage household. Then he got divorce
from his wife on the ground of Gesertion.
The lady is still here, living life of seclu-
sion. 1t is said that Poage has assisted
her financially at various times since the
divorce. That man should be pardoned
for speculation ruinous to others because
his wife is ex.ravagant is a theory ON a par
with the Poagean myth of arnihilation OF
The wicked after death.
But wife or no wife, the creditors of
Rev. G. A. Poage are besiegiDg his Office in
the Croker building. The corridors ara
packed all day long, and it must be a
source of pleasure to Poage to see himself
so great subject Of solicitnde on the part
of his fellow-citizeus. Ii the case of Mont
gnmery is taken into the courts there will
he some lively revelations and good many
things in mining speculation will come to
light. The ex-stnckholders say they will
tell whole lot of things that may impli
cate some prominent people. In the mean
time Poage is keeping as ''far from the
maddiug crowds ignoble strife" as ne can.
with private detective at his heels all the
time.
Those Bogus Railroad Tickets.
The investigation into the issuance Of
fraudulent railroad tickets by the two