The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1907-03-15

ouHe A-DeCldIeS himself 10 DC Int
Prophet Elijah.
June 18-Adds two pairs of wings tt
his garb as prophet.
July l4-Begins sale Of Zion City lots
to the faithful.
July l5-Takes out first naturalization
papers at Waukegan, III.
July 21-Invokes fire to destroy people
of Evanston who turned the hose or
his followers.
Oct. 9-Stamps requests for prayers al
time they are complied with.
Dec. 22-Says as Elijah restored he
will never die.
Jan. 4-Negotiations for the Island OF
Matagarda in the Gulf of Mexico 70,
colonization purposes.
Jan. 5-Negotiates for So, 900 acres of
Texas land for colony.
Jan. 14-Wants his followers to give
him $100, 900 right off.
Feb. A-Threatens to arrest any mem
ber Of his colony found awake after
10p. m.
April 7-Launches new political party
called Theocrats at Zion and advo-
Gates a new constitution for the
United States.
May l4-Calls in physicians to attend
his dying daughter.
June 21-Denounces Mother Goose and
Santa Claus as harmful and bars all
Mother Goose nursery books from
Zion.
June 23-Dowie predicts the end of
the World and advises everybody to
get into Zion City in a hurry.
Oct. Chicago merchants refuse to
give him more credit.
Oct. ll-Makes an appeal for $23, O00,-
900 in SIS bills.
Oct 12-Ordered to refund $50, to
the heirs of Frederick Sutton of New
Zealand, who had invested his money
in Lion.
1908.
Jan. 8Plans the regeneration of Mil
waukee with the aid of great army
of restoration.
Jan. 31-Announces that he will lead an
army Of 5000 for the restoration of
New York City.
Feb. 2-Invites people Of New York to
invest all their savings in Zion.
May Essays that Satan has his throne
in Wall street.
July 15-Fined $4,000 for calling man
"a prophet of the gutter and damna-
tiOn.'
July 28-Issues an urgent appeal for
$4,000, 1000.
Sept. 20-invites the people of Zion to
throw half a million dollars into
barrel and deposit all the money they
have on hand with him.
Sept. 27- Declares that the churches
and newspapers of New York are
"the DEVILS own.'
Oct. Publicly chastises his full-grown
son Gladstone, "the unkissed,' for
getting excited at ball game.
Oct. 14-Start to New York at the
head of an army of restoration num-
bering 5000.
Oct. 18-Appeals to New York police
men to compel the people to listen to
him.
Oct. 20 Marshall Field sues him for
SIS, 600 on an account.
Oct. 35-Casts off his own father be-
cause he addressed him as ''son.''
Nov. 8-Brings his New York restora-
tion crusade to close by baptizing
seventy-nine converts, the result of
three weeks work and money out
lay of $500, 900.
Nov. 11-Creditors fle:suits to recover
$1,000.
Nov. 15--Announces that he is going
abroad latter men and money"
Nov. 19-Asks the ''faithful" to
give him $2,000,C00.
Nov. 2O-Suits to recover $11. 900 filed
against him.
Nov. 21-Issues an order prohibiting
kissing within Zion City.
Nov. A-Creditors attach his summer
house at White Lake.
Dec. ASKS Zionists for $500, 900 to
pay the debts of the cause.
Dec. 2-Asks for $1,OO0,O0O to pay
lions debts of $725, 900. .e
Dec. 5-Has vision of an angel, who
tells him he will triumph over his
enemies.
Dec. 6-He shows lawyers statement
of $14,000,O 900 assets above all liabil-
tiles.
Dec. 8-Plans to build wall eighteen
feet high and one and one half feet
thick all around Zion City.
Dec. 17-Completes his arrangements
for trip around the world.
Dec. 25-Declares that he will return
to earth with the Savior, who will
reign until the destruction of the
globe.
1904.
Ian. Zion City bids him farewell as
he starts for Australia.
ian. 21-Sails from San Francisco for
Australia, paying $500 in addition to
the rsgulur fare for the pick of the
staterooms.
Feb. IA Cables from Australia to Zion
City of his great successes i'll his
work.
Feb. 16- Compelled to flee for his life
from mob at Sydney, Australia, for
saying insulting things about King
Edward.
Feb. 28-Abandons his Australian tour
and appeals to the police for protec-
tion.
May 21- Occupies luxurious suite at
the Normandy hotel, Paris, and en-
ployes a'bodyguard of thirty attend
ants to keep the French reporters
( from bothering him.
June II Arrives in London from Hol-
land and finds all the hotels barred
against him. N