The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-05
PROPHET is HERE
WALLIsrBB, THE SUPPOSED SUI
OIDE, IN THIS CITY.
Q il Known Throughout the West-He
First Attracted Attention by Warming
the People Of the Near Approach of the
Miilenium-He has Been Preaching on
the West Side since Last January-It
Was a Case of Mistaken Identity-He Is
Exhonerated From Numbering His
Friend Davis In Ogden, Utah.
Friend Davis In Ogden. Utah.

A dispatch was received in the city
yesterday from San Francisco, Califor-
MIA, giving the account Of the suicide, at
Ogden, Utah, Of the well-known ''proph-
ct" Aaron G. McAliister, who created
a great sensation in the west and az Oak
land, California, last fall by warning the
people OF the near approach of the mil
lennium. The prophet" arrivtd in this
city on the end Of last January, and is
living in the Palace block, on Chicago
avenue. He is alive and well and preach
es each night in the little frame building
formerly occupied by the Chapman va
riety store on the corner of Chicago ave-
nue. and Wichita street, West Side. His
appearance here indicates a case of mis-
taken identity.
He is picturesque looking individual,
wearing his hair long, it reaching to his
shoulders. He has light, sandy beard,
and is a good resemblance TO the pictures
of Christ.
He claims to have walked all the way
from Oakland, California, to this city,
with the exception Of fifty-mile ride on
a pay-car and few short rides on hand
cars. When asked how he came 10 be
In Wichita, he said that ne received i'm
pressions from the Holy Spirit who
directed him to his destinations"
His appearance in this city exhonerates
him from the suspicion for the murder
Of George o. Davis. of Lepors, Texas,
which is limited at in the dispatches as
being the reason for his alleged suicide
According to the report referred 10. a
man who committed suicide in Ogden,
recently, was identified first as Davis,
and later. as the prophet McAllster.
He sat on the court house steps in
Ogden and cut his throat. He was Ia
ken to the hospital and his throat sewed
up. but he tore the wound in his throat
open again, and finally died from loss
CT blood. He talked of going to heaven
on lovely hill covered with immense
trees and people sitting on the boughs
This man gave his name as Davis, and
as Mc.Aliis!er and Davis had been to-
gether, they were mistaken for each 9TH
er. The two had trave.ed together, Da-
was the one mentioned in Isaiah.
While in Ogden, Davis had received
$500 in cash from his home in Texas.
The men left Ogden together and that
is the last heard of them until the man
supposed to De McAllister returned and
took his life. 1t was supposed that Da-
Wis was murdered by McAllister, who
t1Or. OoSsesSiOn Of the Texans goods
but reuoIse cvercame him and he ended
his life, but il is now known that it was
some other party than McAllister.
McAllister has wife and a bright
looking 13-year-old son who reside in the
Palace block on the West Side. The
whole family seem to run to the spirit
uai. caring nothing for worldly goods or
affairs. Their clothes are very plain but
neat and clean. The one room which the
reporter saw yesterday, was quite bare
of any ornaments. There was no carpet
on the floor. In corner were two sacks
of corn meal, and few cobs of popcorn.
On the wall was mystic dra wing,
which is used by McAliister 10 explain
his religious teachings. When the re-
porter entered Mrs. McAllister held a
Bible in her hand, and one on a cot in
dicated that Mr. McAllister had just
laid his Bible down in order to open the
door. They expect TO come over on this
side Of the river in the near future when
they will expound their ideas. They have
no creed, nor have they and name. but
are known to the general public as
out Corners" or Pilgrims.