The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-30
HE GROWS FAMOUS
EAGLE PUBLISHES AN ITEM WHICH
BRINGS LETTERS OF INQUIRY.
It Spoke Of the Alleged Healing Powers OF
F. w Petry, and the Postofhce, County
OniciaIs and Police Station are Smoth-
cred with Letters of Inquiry Concern
ing the Mantle Item Was Only Pub
lished as q Matter of News ard further
Information is Given - The Report Is
Fully Verified.

A few weeks since the Eagle publish
I'd an item calling attention to the re-
mort of the said wonderful healing pow
ers of F. W. Petry, the well known meat
market man on East Douglas avenue
and also referred to the cases which ne
had healed.
If one-haIf the reports are true as
told by the patients themselves Wien
ita has a, more wonderful healer than
tba world-renowned Schlatter Of Colo
RADIO He claims that his powers en-
ables him to treat parties hundreds OF
miles distan. as well as those WIN
whom he comes in contact.
Since The publication of the item the
costofice, county officials and ponce
ration have been I'm receipt or hunoreas
of letters making inquiry as TO the nedl-
or It is not the providence OF the
Eagle to bring to notice all the Wouln-
ne healers and the statement was only
ouhlished as a matter Of news. In order
IN he able to give the public more gen
eral information concerning the man
reporter for the Eagle called at MS
place of business yesterday, but Iound
that Mr. Petry had been called 10 ms
residence to treat a number OF pauenlS
from a distance who had come 10 see
him from reading Of his alleged powers
In the Eagle.
The reporter found a young man
enuxarently in the best of health and
residing in one of the neatest homes in
the city at 1920 North Fourth avenue.
Mr.. Petry is well-to-do business man,
endFfs a gentleman of pleasing address.
He was busily engaged in giving treat
p,ent IN Thomas Jucher of Cheney, who
was near blind, and when asked by the
reporter of he had received any bene-
fit he at once said that he had been
greatly benefited.
Probably one of the most remarkable
alleged cures was that or the young
son of Charley Guyer, who had a dis
eased bone and who was treated by
many of the physicians of the city and
who it was believed would have TO have
his leg amputated- Mrs. Guyer SAID
that she,took her SON TO Mt. Petry, not
having a particle Of faith in his ability
and that after he had treated the limb
that the swelling was so greatly re-
duced that the bandage had to be
heightened four times the first night and
the limb was so much better the fourth
day and he had so far recovered that
family could not say too much for Mr..
Petry.
Other persons who gave permission
TO use theirnames in the city as to the
cures which are all done forthe good
of humanity" as claimed by Mr.. Petry,
are as follows and they can be seen and
let them tell their own story:
Grant Hatfield, abcess of knee
John Bruder. book binder, stiff knee
f. w. WiIkie, cattle buyer, cancer on
hose
Mrs. Alexander, general debility.
Wesley Jones, barber on East Doug
las avenue, stiff neck and paralysized
arm
William Webster, dyspepsia Of twenty
years standing.
Henry Milton, effects of sunstroke and
scores of others.
He claims that he receives mis- powers
from the spirits and is willing to give
amy test of his powers, but he does not
ask any person else to believe in his
theory as to whore he gets his powers.