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DOWIE TO Return
IN ROLE OF MOSES
PROMISES TO PERFORM MIR
AGILE UPON Els ARRIVAL
AT ZION CITY.
HE WILL ALSO BRING
100000 WITH HIM

Telegram Received from First Apos-
tle"-Wife Says She Will Not De-
sert Hiln-Allcged Earem Scheme
Is Revealed.
Chicago, April John Alexander
Dowie Friday announced in a private
telegram to one of his deacons that
he would return to Zion late Monday
night in the role of Moses and perform
a miracle to prove he is ION the
Unlike Moses he does not
claim as yet to have received any
signs from heaven, but among other
things he promises to bring s1O,0OO,OOO
to them in gold. He said he would
also bring several scrolls of parch-
ment on which are written the five
books of Moses. These are said by
Dowie to have cost $4,000, and they
are to be allowed to repose in Chi
cago, to be viewed by the faithful"
Details of the plans for his trium-
phal entry into the city over which he
once ruled as the general overseer
were lacking, and while his promises
to the people somewhat resemble mes
sages of Moses, he does not promise
all that Moses did. Or Dowie wired
from Mexico City that he will per
form miracle upon his arrival that
will demonstrate to his people that
he is greater than he was ever be.
lieved to be- and he leaves them to
infer from this that he is a second
Moses returned among Them
Legacy from, Baron Hirsch."
The $10,000,000 Dowie says he is
bringing with him he represents to
be bequest from the estate of the
late Baron Hirsch, left to him to as
sist in the delivery of the Jews from
Russia which he says he long has
planned. THE most appropriate mira
Gle Dowie could perform" said a
skeptical elder, would be to produce
the $10,000,000 and relieve the suffer.
ing of his people,"
Persons commenting on Dowie's lat.
est telegram said that it was a mani
festation of paranoia, a type of in
sanity along the same lines as his
claims in the past of being another
Elijah. I'm some cases." said an in
sanity expert, ''the victims of paranoia
have the belief they are called on to
perform the role of others-generally
great characters in history"
Wife Will Not Desert Dowie.
Mrs. Jane Dowie, before a meeting
of the women of Zion at Elijah Hos
pice, declared Friday she would not
desert John Alexander Dowie. "He
has done wrong" said the saddened
wife of lions deposed master, "but
he did not do SO willfully. He is pos
sessed of an unclean spirit, which has
entered into him and made him mad
Let us pray that this devil may be
cast out and that he may again be
himself in God" Mrs Dowie urged
that all the women of Zion be coura-
geous and brave, and told them they
would be of little use toward saving
Zion if they collapsed.
Harem Plans Disclosed.
"In Mexico you will be put on a
pedestal and covered with Silks The
deposed overseer made this promise
in letter to Miss Ruth Hofer, who,
it is said, was to be his first wife in
a polygamous colony to be set up in
Mexico. The colony, according to in
timations given by the first apostle"
was to be surrounded by something
like regal splendor and Miss Hofer
was to enjoy such luxuries as befit.
ted monarch's wife. These facts,
together with more Light on Dowie's
relation with Miss Hofer, as shown in
his letter, developed Friday, following
other disclosures of the. Zion leaders
tendency toward the practice of polyg-
amy.
In addition it was learned that
Dowie planned harem of seven
wives. Some of the women who were
to practice openly with him what he
had secretly preached already had
been selected. Five of them had ac-
copied the proposition. Four of these
were said to be widows. Efforts to
secure more were being constantly
made. For three years the apostle
had been sending out a stereotyped
letter to divorced women urging them
to go to Zion City. 1t is said among
the domestics at Shiloh house only
the most attractive found favor in
Dowie's eyes.
Dowie on Way Home.
Dowie left Mexico City at nine
o'clock Thursday night, after announc.
ing he was in good health, ridiculing
the opposition to him and announcing
he would fight to the end. Dowie said
his followers thought he was going
to die and were disappointed, so they
now opposed his returning. He de.
ined charges that he had any inten.
ton of practicing polygamy, that he
had been extravagant and that he had
mismanaged the affairs of others.
President Declines Invitation.
Washington, April 9.-President
'oocevelt has notified the delegation
Ehich called on him last Thursday tr
invite him to attend the annual con
yention of the League of American
municipalities at Chicago next Sep
TENDER that lie will be unable to &C
cept the invitation In his letter OF
declination, which was sent to Mayo,
Rhett, of Charleston. S. c., he ex
pressed interest in the work of the
convention, but said he could not at
tend it.
GAIL Blown Open; Four Escape.
st. Louis. April GA telephone com