The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-30
SCHLATTER'S PILGRIMAGE.
Lonely Trails to Albuquerque. N. NJ.
Where lie Will begin q Long Fast.


Denver, Col. Nov 29.-It now begins
to appear that Francis Sch1atter will
not attempt to continue his mission as
divinely gifted healer of diseases in
Chicago, and 1t Is probable he has fin
ished his mission. not only in Denver
but for all time and for all places The
mystery of his DISAPPEARANCE battles
both the curious and his loyal support
ers. The most intimate of his friends
here declare with positiveness that he
Is In hiding somewhere in the hills not
so very far from Denver. Ever since
Schlatter disappeared a solitary man
riding a white horse has been reported
travelling slowly southwark. He ID to-
day not far from Walsenburg. taking
unfrequented trails southwark into
New Mexico. He may be a prOspectCr
who is imposing upon the credulity of
the people with whom he meets, but the
testimony now has become so abundant
as to warrant me belief that this man
on horseback Is Schlatter.
At Elizabeth, at Overton and now at
Greenhorn the soarsely settled COM
munities believe the stranger Is Schlat-
ter. Last night George Sears, a ranch
man on the Greenhorn,/ thirty miles
southwest of Pueblo,/ wired from Gran
eros station, on the Denver &c Rio
Grande, this message:
Francis Schlatter. the healer, took
dinner at my house today, going south
wardly. He told Y!ie he rode through
the storm Thursday night. On Friday
morning he camced In an abandoned
cabin on the Greenhorn, and remained
there till Monday morning. l know him
to be Francis Schlatter. the healer,
having seen him in Denver
Several ranchmen of the Greenhorn
country have cOryoborated this report
to the station agent at Graneros.
Schlatter told Mr.. Sears he had suffered
severely from exposure during the
snowstorms of the last week. and that
he had travelled all the way from Den
Yer by unfrequented ways ana much
of the distance by night in order to
avoid being seen. He says he will go
to Albuquerque, where he will begin q
forty days fast.
Rouse, Col. Nov. 29.-Francis Schlat-
ter, the healer, passed through this
coalmining village this afternoon,
mounted upon gray horse. A number
of people who had seen him in Denver
positively identified him. His coming
has been anticipated by rumors which
came from Walsenberg last night. He
was met distance from town by near
ly the entire population, who flocked
about and begged him to give them the
healing grasp, The healer dismounted
and grasped the hand of every one who
came to him. He did not talk and re-
fused to answer questions. He said
only that he was going south and that
he ,had Travelled twenty miles during
the day. After everybody had shaken
hands with him he mounted his horse
and rode on.
Indianapolis Has Healer.
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 29-George
W. Bunting, the street commissioner
of this city, is Aid to possess the game
healing power that has attracted SO
much attention to Schlatter.
II do not know what influence it is. -
said he today. ut consists merely in
the laying on of hands. have cured
over 1000 persons. but never took a
cent for my services, and have al
always tried to keep my work out OF
the papers, because, as I said, I was
afraid people would think I was a
crank. ] went into the Bates house one
evening and d. F. Whitcomb, then SUI
perintendent Of the Union Railway
company, was the;e. His face vas ter.
ribly swollen f:Om an liberated tooth
passed my hand over his fece two or
three times and told him he would suf-
fer no mere pain. In an instant hiS
SuASiiht StODDeus anu III Il SnOrt time
the swelling was gone anu he has never
been bothered since.
"A man came here from the south
who was suffering with cancer on his
face. He had spent nearly every cent
of his money trying to be cured. and
the doctors had told him his case was
hopeless. He was an old friend of mine
and came here to visit me, knowing
nothing Of my ability to heal The first
day he was suffering intensely. / had
him lie down on the lounge in my office
and passed my hands over his, face
and the pain was gone. told him that
In three weeks the cancer would iisap-
pear. but he laughed at me, AID SO did
several of the local doctors tC whom he
talked. ] gave him three treatments,
passed my hands over his, face at three
different times. and shortly after the
last time the cancer was gone ana II
has never. returned. showed the man
to several doctors. 'lmong them DR..
Lockridge. and they would hardly be-
1leve It,"
Mr.. Bunting ID not practicing the
healing art Il am not going into the