Arizona republican., 1902-04-07
MARTYRS OF THEIR CREED.
Women Adventists Locked Up Afte
 Church Riot.

In obedience to their creed three wo- men Adventists are submitting to de- tention at the Hyde Pork police sta tion. Their belief forbids that they appeal to the courts, so they are wait- ing hearing Dn Monday rather than violate their principles by asking re- lease on bonds.
 The women, together with five men, were arrested yesterday on the charge of disturbing a religious meeting. The men are locked up at the Fifteenth street station.
 The three women are Miss Lottie Carlson 3G0 Ashland place: Miss Chris tina Tolf 1GS Winona street. and Mrs. John Lindholm, i36 Wolfram street. John Lindblom is among the men who spent Sunday behind the bars. The others are H. T. Nelson, J. H. Ralston. c. c. I-undberg and T. O. Hedlund, all of 91O Clyburn avenue.
 The eight crusaders, as they say they are. got into trouble by trying to bring the state conference of the Adventist church. now sitting at the Forty-sixth street church, to a realization that the Adventists had departed from their original teachings.
 One by one they were ejected by main force from the places they had taken on the platform among the Easter lilies and dragged out a side door into the street. A patrol wagon full of pu- lice found them trying to carry the crusade back into the church and took them to the police stations.
 During the struggle to eject the cru saders the church was in an uproar and hymn books were flying in the air.
 Three of the men were delegates to the conference, which is the Lake Union division of the church. When they entered yesterday morning the ushers, recognizing the leader and sus- pecting trouble, tried to defect the party into the galleries, but Nelson said that their place was on the plat form. They gained the stage and an nounced their intention of recalling the church to the teachings of Mrs. F. G. White.
 -Four years ago. Nelson began, | but q hand was clapped over his mouth and he was dragged towards the door. Brothers and sisters,'' shouted Lind holm. II have mission to proclaim The sentence was lost in the struggle and G. G. Lundberg stepped into the breach.
 'I want to proclaim to you these things which God has bidden me" Then he went down in the rush of an- other delegation to the platform. He'd lund was not allowed to start his talk, as before he could begin he was on his i way towards the door.
 At the bottom of the steps the cru saders were collected in a group and showed out of doors.
 ] They immediately returned to the at | tack. but the police. who had been sum- moned, arrived and stopped them. The crusaders were told if they would go away quietly and not attempt to re- enter the church they would not be arrested They refused to promise and were bundled into the patrol wagon. In discussing the predicament in which the women found themselves last night. Miss Carlson said: | Our creed does not permit us to ap- peal to the courts. Our enemies have done this, and all we can do is to wait our hearing. Our church is supposed to stand for the right of free speech. This was what we were trying to main- | tain when we were put out | By officials of the conference it was | said that the crusaders were enthusi- l asts who would not regulate their ac- ! tions and who would make disturb ances.
 NelsCn's police station experience is not a new thing to him. He showed i with some pride a record of six inn prisonmehts in various towns. He has spent an aggregate of three months in ! jail.-Chicago Tribune.