The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-08-18
Confined from first page.

Confined from first page.
and Albert r. Clemens.
Mrs. Bratz is also to be defend
ant charging her with violating
the statutes Of Illinois by practic-
ing without license. The hear
ing is set for Monday before JUS
tice Richardson. Summons have
been served on Holmes, Alexan-
der Dowie, J. G Speicher .(man
ager of the Zion home), Mrs. G..
81. Knobbe, and Edward Flanders,
Attorney John A. Barnes will !!
prosecute for the state board Of
Health. s..~.
The Inter Ocean Of Sunday con
tains about four columns of inter
esting matter in reference to the
Dowie home from which we have
taken following:
Its claimed corpses were taken
away at night, when DR.. Dowie
had lis sanitarium at Sixty first
street, remarked the reporter.
Do you know whether anything
like that goes on here?"
mo, I don't. A dealer near mo
on Twelfth street, told me me that
they were carrying out corpses
often at night, but I don't know"
Zionists deny that they admin
lister by temporal means at all.
They depend wholly upon cures
by the Lord, and protest that they
are in no way responsible for re-
suits. DR.. Dowie h as one general
warning to his patients and one
only:
"Don't be stingy with your
money!" he says. IF you do the
Lord may be stingy with his
} cures
! So far as the general public is con-
cerned any investigation of what
goes on at the Dowie institution is
} impossible except by means of de:
tectives, or detectives methods. 1t
is shut up as thoroughly as Joliet;
as isolated as pest house. No sta
+istics are given out. Hotel, bank
) church, land investment company
printing Office, and college are all
, owned and controlled by Dr.. Dowie
=. What goes on at Zion or where the
= immense sums of money go to aftel
> they leave the pockets of Dowie con
verts is my stery.
i Life at Zion apparently does not &
on in the rude simplicity of life amonf
the early Christian martyrs whom tn
J Zion elders claim to emulate. Th,
court official who went to subpoen.
Elder Holmes, accused of illega
practice in the case of Mrs. Flanders
found him living like prince.
He had luxurious suite of ROOM
! and was attended by two waiting
maids" reported the clerk.
When Dowie is not at his summe
home ut Whitehall, Mich, he occupies
, a luxurious suit of apartments a
= Zion. When Zion was established
the Imperial hotel was rented, fur
, n'shed, and the appointments hav'
9 since been made more splendid. Th,
entrance to the building is an i'm
mense lobby, high ceiled, in hand
y somely carved oak, and foored will
q marble thing. A big velvet rug GOV
! ers large part of it. At the counte
a clerk and assistant are busy as il
the ordinary hotel. To the left is
big dining room with polished foo
J.. and shining nspery. In front ant
: across the lobby, with windows open
8 ing on Michigan avenue, a privat
J. Office has been penned off for Dr.
:, Speicher, the private secretary. It i
r very handsomely appointed, will
J. rugs, pictures, and oak furniture up
b holstered in leather. In a big room
q to the left, when the reporter called
one of the elders was holding
q "clinic.' The room was filled will
: chairs and beds, on the order of port
j. able couches. About twenty five mel
q and women were sitting and lyin,
n about the room. Two women wer
I evidently in the last stages of con
y SUMPTION, a third was lame, one maj
i had his head bound up in muslin an,
n cotton, another looked about with tn
J. vacant stare of an idiot. The eide
8 was sitting in an arm chair holding
t Bible in his hand and giving a gen
eral talk to tho effect that God wa
!, the only healer, that he made every
= thing, did everything, and that til
:, necessary requirement for being cure
:, of disease was to get a blessing.
A burly fellow in corduroy guarde'
the double doors which were open.
= John Alexander Dowie does not be
|! lieve that the love of money is tn
= = root of all evil. Zion prospers in tn
direct ratio to the amount of none
70 collected. DR.. Dowie's operation
in Chicago begun about six years age
He came to the city penn iless. Hi
> wealth is now estimated at 81 .OOo. OO(
More Small POx
Al At Round Lake
II tits with regret the announcement
of more small pox cases have de
velOped at ROund Lake durinu th.