The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-28
RULERS OF ZION
OUSTED BY
COURT
AND RECEIVER PUT IN CHARGE
UNTIL A REGULAR ELECTION
is HELD.
BLOW TO THE RIVALS
Who Fouqht for Control of Dowie's
City in the Court--WhoIe Es.
tate Put in Charge Of
John c. Hatley.

Chicago. July 27 Neither Johr
Alexander Dowie. the founder, no
Wilbur Glen Voliya the present over
seer Of Zion, is given the properly. es
timated worth $l2.00000 to $21, 100.
900 in the decision handed down to
day by Judge Landis. in the United
States circuit couI1 n the Zion City
case.
Instead Judge lands declared that
Zion City was a trust estate and
named John G, Hatley, q member D.
he Chicago Board ~ Trade receiver
and ordered an election September
18TH, when the people Of Zion City
shall choose their oyerseer. Landis
will decide later what compensation
Dowie will be allowed ror his past ser.
vices
Receiver Hatley's bond of $25. .00Q
was approved late THIS afternoon anf
he went Immediately to Zion City ana
assumed charge of the property.
FOUNDING or ZION.
II appears that Dowie, a native Of
Scotland where lie mad received a
theological edueetion, came from Aus.
traia to the Pacific roast IN 1883, and
remained there number of years en-
gagged in chusch work; from there he
came to Chicago and in 1899 under
took the Zion City enterprise in exc
cution of a scheme conceived by him
many years before; tia, ne purchased
a vast tract Of land i Dart of which
was subdiydad and laid ouf in pari
and residence property, provision
being made for manufacturing sites
that the grantees OF the building lots
erected houses accommodating COCO
or 5000 people; that Dowie cor
struc ed school houses and c0llee@
at a cost OF several hundred
thousand dollars anG tabernacle
seating 1000 people, ana tnat a lac
factory, soap works, and other indu
trial enterprises We're established to
give employment TO the inhabitant'
of Zion City who were principally al
members of he church
Dowie Got Contributions.
The financing of fhis scheme wa.
accomplished in part by monies re
neiyed from purchasers Of lots under
eleven hundred year leases, but
large part of the capital was none
,,rtttI,,t.d O., n,urf, lv nargone ,,,,t
,ide of Zion City
The court then traced Dowie's
'hurch career beginning in Australia
Town to his work in Zion City an5
ound that Dowe had for many years
leen in receipt of large revenue
which he devoted to church and
harity purposes: that the amount
eceived by him aggregated in some
ears $250,0)0; thar Dowie had not
ought 10 amass a private fortune:
mt hat he engaged in secular occu-
.ation In aid OF the propagation Of hi
doctrine. or, as Dowie ex
,resscd it; for God and humanity"
After quoting from Dowie's official
publication, Leaves Of Healing {
how that for six or seven years Dowie
.ad declared in the church and
through the paper that he was a trus
ee Of he estate, ninety-fve per cent
4 which he asserted belonged to
Zion as q whole" the court quotes |
codiciI TO Dowie's w:il executed in |
ugust. 1905, as follows:
"The remaining u.neteen-twentieths |
( said estate in my name. which I |
old and have held In trust. in said /
hurch. / DO hereby give. devise and /
10 my said successor in /
q ce. TO him or her aad his or or her
iccessors in office. 20 be adminis-
red of said church and the exten
ON Of Zion and the Kingdom Of Goo
conformity with the rule and prac.
ces of said church"
or this codicil the court says,
There IS no escape from the plain
Gaming of these words. The declara /
on is unqualified and g. a complete /
.c1sniiion of an existing tru- odiiga- 4,
on. No specious construction could Z
axe anything else out of 81. and for 6
e court to eater a decree IF private Z
snership would be 20 perpetuate a y
aud
As to aho shun'i Je receiver. the
risiou says.
.. s. strongly Insisted Or Nllva q
.l his associates that the defendant s.
anger b. continued ln charge Thi G
.uointmeat it s. asserted. IS an alb e
mte uecessitr. Q DO H1t concur in II
is proposition Taivn ng All question Il
10 Graurers uHGtnHs from the 81
ia3nolnt of bHsaezs ability some q
re seo be- toek a vou from which D
1te the following
Z vow in the name of God my
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