Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-17
COASORTS OF SPO0KS IN HE
 MOUNTAINS
Dr. ludwig Funkhauser Has Colony of Spiritualists in the
 Iicarilla Mountains. New Mexico-Talk With Spirits

ROSWELL. h. N-, March l5.-Dr. Ludwig Funkhauser. who conducts a colony in the Jicarilla mountains, 90 miles west of here, and at one time a friend ana coworker of Emma Gold man and Herr Most in their anarch- istic propaganda. passed through here on his return from the annual spirit ual meeting fin Kansas City. When questioned concerning his visit to the spiritual meeting, and what interest his coionists in the wilds of the Jicar- illa mountains felt in the new occult theory. he replied:
 Our people are the original dis coyerers of the so-called occult sci ence. and I simply went to Missouri to learn what progress they had made in the spirit world. I was sur prised to learn that practically every message received by mediums during the three days meeting were vague and meaningless. With. my people it is different.
 Many Of OCT boys and girls con ;. Verse with the spirits with perfect ease. and I often communicate with friends and relatives long since gone from earth. The trouble with the av- craze medium is that he or she doesn't under~'sod just how to reach the spir' it's. This Is because they rely toI much upon local conditions to assist them This Is all wrong.s
 Fears the Railroad.
 When asked to explain the work ings of his strange colony. and the number of eoionists he had. the doc tor declined to answer. He was as sured that many readers throughout the country would be glad to kDov more about himself and people who five among the erags and mountain fastDesses. but he declined to talk for publication. He said. however. that labor organizations and the money bags of the country were trying to drive himself and happy band of col onists into remoter parts of the noun tains. and that recently a lot of sur yeyors were running line of road through a valley near his abiding place. which meant rum and disaster to their colony.
 T want the newspapers and pluto crats to let me alone. 1 am not 2 beast or wild animal I want to be left alone with my people until we work out the problem of true spirit ualism. as first discovered by us.
 q solved the problem of spiritual ism in Chicago many years ago, just after the Haymarket affair, and with a small band of men and women came out here. where we hoped toI live in peace. but it seems they won't let us alone.
 No Meat in Colony.
 "hIy colony lives entirely on fish and vegetables: no meat has ever been brought into camp. or course we have plenty of eggs, geese, ducks and chickens. We keep number Of sheep and goats. but used only for wool and their skins 'fneir meat is nnclean, therefore we never touch IL Goat skins are used by the women for clothing. while the men wear woolen clothes made from looms by the wo- men. We have no mules or horses about the colony. Women do the work, such as attehd:ng the garden, cutting wood, etc. Our small farms are located in the valley, and irrigat- ed from mountains streams. We pro duce enough food stuff. corn, beans, etc, each year to supply the colony.
 Hell Talk, Pure Moonshine.
 ''Yes. we have long church house. which | preach III every SuHuag- Ot course my preaching is not of the or dinary sort. We don't believe in the Bible. as most people do. Our Teiig- ion is on a much higher plane. Act ual spirits come to us and direct our loves as we should five. aud all this talk about going to heaven, and hell, is pure mosnshine. The spirit leaps forth into space when the body dies. and that is all there is to it. The bet ter one lives the more pleasure oIie gets out of this life. and the nearer one is to 8 perfect spiritual state at death We don't speak of death. Such a term means nothing to us.
 Money and spirituaIisn1.
 "No, don't believe in the kind or spirituaIism tbe people of Missouri say they believe in. There IS toO much money mixed up in 1t to spit me. What Is the use to preach one thing and practice anotherZ That IS inst what the average spirit1aiist does We need no money in the col sny."