Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
Hotel Gossip

Hon. Benjamin Fine Of Madison sends
greeting to the Rev. Chas. Mclean,
D. D., NJ. D., L. L. D., and incidentally
wishes the cheerful information con-
veyed to the man claiming to be Fran
els Schlatter, that he is a faker of mag
nitude, a liar who must have lineally
descended from Ananias, and anything
else on earth but Smooth article"
Francis Schlatter is dead" said Mr..
Fine this morning to a representative
Of the Inter Mountain in the corridor
Of the Butte. The man left Denver
on November s, 1895, and in the spring
of 1888 his bones We're found in the San
Madras mountains, New Mexico. Young
Arkell, Of the Rocky Mountain News,
took a keen interest in the man and
made a thorough investigation, finally
satisfying himself that the report of his
death was authentic. There We're arti-
cles found among the shreds of clothing
and certain marks of identificatio in
the way of teeth, making it a certainty
that Schlatter was the man whose bones
We're discovered.
Another thing. While experimenting
mining work in Denver I Inhaled pois-
onous fumes and became i'll. My stom-
tons arose, giving me dyspepsia in the
worst form. Physicians could do moth
ing for me, and at length my wife in
sisted that I go see Schlatter, who was
living at that time at the house of
man named James Fox. / was skep-
tical, but finally my wife persuaded me
to go. The man did not cure by faith,
and in proof of it I wish to say that
was ashamed to stand in line and asked
my wife to go with me in order that
anybody knowing us and seeing us in
line would think I was simply accom-
panying her.
The man laid his hands on my head.
That was all I observed, but I had
not walked 200 yards away from the
spot before I was seized with an attack
of hunger. I went into a restaurant
and ate good meal of oysters, washing
them down with ale. The next morning
/ ate a hearty meal Of beefsteak. After
that l regained flesh rapidly, and today
you see what / am.
There are many who know what
+ Schlatter did for me, among them being
Banker James A. Murray. This schlat-
ter was one of the most devout, inno-
cent and pure-minded men I have ever
seen in all my life. He would take
money from nobody, though many were
trying to force 1t on him all the time
AN he wished was food, clothing, and
"a place to sleep. He did not claim to do
these things in the name of Christ, but
simply said that he was healing people
for God. from whom came the power.
Il This man who claims to be Schla tier
is a rank fakir. He ought to be run out
OF town. He ought to have sense enough
10 know that in a mining town like
Butte many people would be present
from Denver to expose him. He doesn't
look like the genuine article, he doesn't
talk like him. he doesn't act like him,
and he isn't Schlatter."
John r. Toole Of Anaconda is at the
Butte.
Joseph Smith II of Virginia City. edi-
TOR OF the Madisonian, is at the Butte.
DR.. O.. Y. Warren, medical superin-
tendent. of the asylum for the insane at
DR.. F. Johnson of Bozeman is regis
tered at the McDermott.
M. V. Wilson. F. w. Branton and s.
! C. Ashby, Jr., of Helena. are guests at
the McDermott.
r Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Clark left Butte
klast evening on an extended tour Of the
| world.