The age-herald., 1899-01-22
BARNEY BROKE IN ON THE DIVINE HEALER Told the Crowd He Was a
 Fake. SCHLATTER PAID NO HEED But Continued the Performance - He Tells of Perilous Trip Across
 the Desert to the Pa
 cific Coast.
SCHLATTER PAID NO HEED

Schlatter's list and still the work goes on. At the call of the T o'clock service last night quite a stormy session ensued owing to the interruption of Barney Baldwin, only living being with a broken neck.
 Barney broke into the audience and com menced to loudly denounce the long haired man as a fake. He yelled. q have put s1OOOO in the bank to offer if he can cure me and why don't he do it? He's fake, that's what he is'' These words seemingly had no effect on the divine" mans actions, and looking neither to the right nor the left, he kept steadily on with his pulse feel ing performance
 Fou h he Healer
 Quite amusing incident incident oc- cured at Schlatter's 2:9O matinee yester- day An old negro man came up bent and twisted with infiammatory rheumatism and had to be rested on the healer's improv:sed stage awaiting his turn. Finally Schlatter took him up and depriving him of his crutches bade him depart in peace. This latter admonit.on, however the darkey for got and when another man of the Senegam- bian persuasion derided the healer's power, a street scrap was immediately in order |, time being called at the end of the first round by the anti-prize-fighting populace. The doctor still has the negro's crutch and it is supposed he has recovered, anyway at last accounts his scrapping ability was still above par.
 Among the notable cure effected yester- day was that of the small child of H. L. Williams which, it is said, was not expected to live. As a last resort the "Divipe Healer" was sent for and in half an hour time the child was able to talk to his father
 J. C.. Musgrove, drove up to the doctor s hotel yesterday afternoon and was treated in his buggy. He stated that he was some what improved.
 How He Began Healing
 Yesterday afternoon the doctor related a very interesting story concerning the first trip on his healing mission. At the time of the beginning of his story he was at work as a shoemaker in Denver, Colorado. One night he went to his room at 10 o'clock, but feeling premonitien of some kind he could not sleep, and lay and tossed until abont 8 o'clock in the morning, when vision ap- peared to him and he was told to go forth and heal the sick. He arose immediately, and, without a cent in his pocket, started on perilous journey to the Pacific coast across the Majoha desert, healing as he went. Ere he reached the edge of this wild barren waste, his shoes had worn out and his feet were terribly lacerated by the sharp cactus needles which abound in that local ity. The burning heat from the sand added to this made the walk even more painful; biIf ba J,,St bafo starting he was given glass of milk and the water he drank was procured from the head of the cactus plant In this condi- tion, according to his narration, he lasted fifty-four days, sleeping in the sun-scorched sand without a sign of cover, finally eating hearty meal at Albequerque, N M, which, in direct contradiction to the many prophecies of his many friends did not hurt him in the least. From there he journeyed to the Pacific coast, and then, turning his head toward the California gulf, started on his homeward journey Stopping at AL berquerque on his return trip, he stayed at the home of Mrs. Ada Jarrett for three months. This woman is the author of "The Harp In the Hands of the Harper" and the book was written during Schlatters stay
 
 leading characters. Leaving there, he step- peu a poor Mexican's house, and, asking for a glass of water, found a child in the room stricken with paralysis. He immedi- ately set to work, and when the mother re- turned and found the child walking she fled in terror, screaming that Christ had come. The news of the cure spread like wild-fre, and a crow of over five hundred Mexicans and Indians met Schlatter and demanded public demonstrat ton. This request was complied with, Alderman Ed Fox, of Dem yer being one of the cured. The doctor was then taken back to Denver in special car and from then until now crowds have besieged him wherever he went.
 The FaIsirs Finish
 As last night marked the exmut of the fakir, some speculation is being indulged in as to what will be done with Schlatter. Under the ordinance as passed, he is in cluded, and now the question comes, Can he get permission from the mayor and board of aldermen" MT. Gilbert, Schlat- ters manager, has seen the mayor, but the city council will not meet until Monday night, and the performance will have to be stopped on that day pr. Schlatter and MT. Gilbert were seen last night and in regard to what action would be taken made the following statement:
 "I saw the mayor this afternoon, who in- formed me no permit could be issued until the board of aldermen meet on Monday night. Of course we shall not do anything contrary to what might be expected of us, but trust some one will have place ready for us to continue our demonstrations on Monday, as great crowds will be down for treatment"