Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-12

Dowie was all that he claimed to be,
was summoned by telephone and ar
rived only few minutes before death
occurred.
No physician attended him in his
last illness, as he believed in the di-'
vine healing doctrine. He would not
admit even that his strength was
waning. The time would come, he
thought, when he again would be in
power.
Last Night in DelIrium.
Dowie appeared as well as usual to
his callers Friday. In his whispered
delirium during the night Dowie con-
Quoted religious services and again
lived through the years when he was
a power on the platform.
Soon after news of the death had
spread in Zion City about 200 of those
who had chung to Dowie in the recent
troubles gathered at Shiloh House
They appointed committees to notify
the many friends of the apostle of his
death and then discussed funeral ar
rangements.
Hundreds of messages were sent
over the country informing followers
of the death of the former head of
Zion. Business was practically sus-
pended in Zion City. Storekeepers
left their shops to join the crowds in
the streets, where the sudden death of
the Apostle" was discussed.
Great Funeral Planned.
1t is predicted that Dowies funeral
will be one of the greatest burial
ceremonies ever witnessed in Chicago
or vicinity. The hand of death seem
ed to wash away the scars of recent
conflicts between Dowie and his re-
hellious subjects. The body will be
buried at Mount Olivet cemetery, the
burying ground laid out near Zion
City when the town was first plated.
The date of the burial has not yet
been set, but the funeral probably will
not be held before next Tuesday Flu
neral arrangements will be in charge
OF D. F. Morris, formerly major of the
Zion guards. 1t is expected that the
body Of Dowie's daughter, Esther who
died May IA, 1908, and who was buried
at Lake Mound cemetery, will be
moved to the side of her father.
According to one of the men who
had been faithful to Dowie to the end,
a huge tomb commanding Lake Mich.
igAn will be erected as an eternal
monument to his memory.
Story of His Life.
Born of Scotch parentage in 1S47,
Y>t,
member of the presbyterian church.
Little is known of his early life. He
went to Australia in 1878, when he
was 81 years old, and there began his
career as divine healer" and evan.
xelist that in little over quarter OF
a century made him the head of the
Zion church, with following of over
10000 in every country of the world
and the virtual master of property
valued at $21, 100000 Had he beer
able to carry out his Mexican planta
ton scheme, the largest Of his later
year plans, he would have increased
his property to nearly double its value
at the time of his death
Practices His Divine Healing.
He passed ten years in Australia,
most of that time in Melbourne, and it
was there that he first began practic-
ing divine healing. When he went
there from Scotland he believed he
possessed healing powers and his first
trial was upon himself. He declares
he cured himself Of chronic stomach
trouble. Reassured by this success
he went among the victims of the
putrid fever that broke out in Mel
bourne shortly after his arrival there
and !t was always one Of bis boasta