Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-26
LIFE OF THE HEALER
FRANCIS scHLATTER AS HIS LONG 1s-
 LAND NElGHBoRs SAW HIM.

Fireman on q Fishing Steamer and Skill
 ful shoemaker-Used to Study Much-''A
 Little Queer"- -Handkerchiefs Sent Ills
 Old Friends Haven't Worked Cures.
 Francis Schlatter, the healer, is well known ill Jamesport, L. l. The resi- dents now talk of little else save their townsman. They say he is rather good fellow, but little queer, and seem amused at the story of the shoemaker's cures. The village is much excited over the Denver healer.
 At Jamesport some interesting facts were learned by reporter who visited the village. Whatever may be true of the cures of the healer in the west, his prescriptions do not work on his James port friends, who have communicated with Sehlatter in Denver The reporter interviewed number of people. and on the promise of their names being with held was told how they had received handkerchiefs and other articles from Schlatter with directions how to become new in health and body. The good folks tried his cures with all the faith imagi nable, but their ailments did not disap- pear.
 Some of Schlatter s friends say he is "off, while many residents say he nev- CT was quite right in his head. He ney- er showed any particular preference as regards religious faith. He was brought up Catholic. so he told his friends. He had been known to walk to the Catholic church at Riverhead, a dis tance of six miles. He occasionally went to the village churches, Congregational and Methodist, but Schlatter was not q regular churchgoer. He went to James port in 1890 with William Ryan, elder son of Thomas Ryan. Ryan was an en- gineer and Sehlatter had been employed as his fireman on a fishing steamer. Schlatter boarded with the Ryan fam fly. He went fishing for two seasons. Then he tired of the work and settled himself at his trade He hired half of the house of Aunt Sally Corwins and began making shoes He kept house for himself then. He was we'll up in his trade, and acted as finisher of fine hand made shoes, the parts of which were sent him from New York. Everybody agrees that Schlatter was the finest shoe- maker they ever saw, and be made good wages.
 Schlatter while at Jamesport is de- scribed as a tall, robust fellow of dark complexion. He did not wear whiskers, but had becoming black mustache. He was apparently between 35 and 40 years of age. He went to Long Island from New York city, and little of his family record is known.
 Daniel A. Young, justice of the peace at South Jamesport, says Schlatter was trifie insane, but always firm in his convictions. MT. Young says that Sehlatter was always great Republic an until 1892, when he suddenly chang ed and became Socialist. He believed that the Socialist Labor party would win that year. During the latter part of his stay Schlatter told his friends of his strange dreams, when beautiful i'm ages appeared before his eyes.
 Schlatter, when he went to James port, had some money. His hobby for a long time was silver mines and the west, where he said he intended to make his future home. At the Ryan homestead they spoke we'll of the heal CT. He was great student. Every night until late hour the light in his room was burning and Schlatter sat there studying something.
 Schlatter boarded for year with Mrs. S. Bartlett. Mrs. Bartlett says he was an excellent boarder. Her son Den- is says he seldom if ever went out of the house of an evening. He noticed nothing strange about Schlatter, he said.
 Schlatter invested his money in specu- lating ill western silver mine com pany. He went away from Jamesport in 1893 to take charge of his mining stock and to make his fortune, as he said These hopes were blasted when Schlatter reached New Mexico, and the Jamesport people believe that it was this great disappointment that affected his mind and made him the figure he is today. Brooklyn Eagle.