The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
Wealthy Philanthropist
Heals Chicago's Poor
City is Excited Over the Remarkable Cures
of Mysterious Man Whose Excen-
tricites are Startling
Strange Stories Told Quiet Stranger
Quantities Of Food and Clothing Clothing and Cures
Disease Without Pay

The physicians of the city are
amazed ut the work he is doing, and
have tried to shake the wonderful
influence he has over the people,
even going so far as to threaten pros
ecutiOn, but as he does not accept
any money for his services and does
not give out any medicine himself,
they have been powerless to inter-
fere.
Cooper created considerable amuse-
menl at the expense of the doctors by
asking them why they did not write
their prescriptions in English so
their patients would know what they
We're taking.
Since the interest has become so
widespread that Cooper cannot meet
the people personally, he is receiving
an enormous mail and keeps large
force of stenographers employed in
answering it. In the meantime
stories of marvellous cures continue
to pour in.
Mrs. q. Fry, living at 1872 Oak
street, had suffered agony for months
from rheumatism. In telling about
her case she said:
~ have had rheumatism for over
nine years. 1t has been getting
worse every year until / have been
almost n cripple from it for the past
past eighteen months. 1 have been
unable to write for over three years,
as the knuckles Of my hands were so
swollen / could not close my fingers
enough to write. Every joint in my
body was in the same shape, swollen
and intensely painful. The suffering
has been too great to describe. /
have seen a doctor every week for
ten months and have tried In every
way to get well. .s..,.,,....
Last week came here and bought
some of the Cooper medicines. /
was told to come back in case 1 did
not improve. have come back any
way just to express my thankfulness.
"You see my hands. The swelling
has almost gone. So has the pain.
If you will lend me pencil / will
show you that 1 can write" Mrs.
Frye here took n pencil and used it
reapily. II told a neighbor who has
rheumatism about it, and she said
maybe it isn't the medicine; maybe
it's something else / told her that
until l knew what the something
else was should keep on taking the
medicine and / advised her Ito do
likewise"
Cooper claims to have received the
formular of the medicines he is using
from an aged priest in n sleepy Span
ish town in old Mexico. The Mexi-
cans believed that holy water or
some supernatural element entered
into their composition.
Cooper receiver an enormous daily
mail. Letters are coming from every
part of the state asking for advice.
The philanthropist reads every let
ter carefully, and replies to each one
advising the remedy which is appli-
cable to each individual case.
While his remarkable cures are the
chief topic of conversation, many
stories are heard on the streets and
in business places of his goodness to
the poor. His gifts of food, money
and clothing have relieved Il great
amount of distress and have greatly
endeared him to the people.
He is beginning to show the great
strain he has been under the past
two weeks, and 1t is understood that
he will remain here only one more