The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-07-21
100000 FOR PROPERTY
Independents Take An Appeal From
Ruling of Court and Declare That
Sale Was Made at Too Low Price
IA Cents On Dollar For Creditors.

Overseer Voliva has won his fight
for the Zion City estate.
BY vote of the investors in Zion,
those who originally put their money
into the proposition, it became appar-
ent to Judge Lands in the federal
court, Chicago, that they were anxious,
by a large majority, to have the re-
ownership lifted and the estate sold to
Voliva for his cash proposition of
100000.
The final order of the court was en-
tered Thursday at o'clock, Judge
Lands having stated just before noon
that he would enter the order at that
hour.
Here are the three propositions
which the investors had been asked by
the court to vote upon:
shall the estate be sold to Cobe
& McKinnon (known to be voliva s
agents. for 100000 cash?
shall seven trustees be created to
conduct the affairs of Zion7
3-shalI the estate be sold to Vol
iva on time2
Interests representing $1,772,71O vot-
ed that the judge sell to Voiva for
cash, 100000.
Interests representing 81, 699. 623 vot-
ed that the seven trustees be named to
care for the estate.
Interests representing $118,315 vot-
ed that the judge sell to Voliva or
time.
In other figures, 1854 persons voted
for the sale for cash; LAT voted to sen
on time; 91O voted for the trustee
plan.
The vote of the investors has been
progressing for the past month, and,
all along, it had been neck and NECK
between those favoring the sale to
Voliva and the ones against it, the In
dependents, representing the latter
plan.
Voliva felt confident that he would
win the verdict of the investors while
the others felt equally confident The
returns show that Voliva had 1901
persons in his favor against 910
against him although in the matter of
dollars and cents, Voliva had but $685.
087 more in his favor than the other
crowd Votes were allowed proper
tionate to the amount person had in
vested III Zion.
The decision of the court is final and
Voliva will now take the necessary
steps to acquire absolute ownership to
the estate of Zion He evidently has
the cash on hand to make the deal or
he would not have carried it as far as
he has. This deal viii give him title
to many buildings, much land, manu-
featuring plants, ETC., and it means the
complete routing of the anti-Voliva
factions in Zion.
Many have said that, if the estate
was sold to Vollva, the Independents
and others would move out of the city
at once, for, if they did not, Voliva
would practically drive them out.
The events which transpired in the
federal court, Chicago, Thursday, were
the most important in Zion S history.
They marked new epoch in the city s
life; they marked a complete reversal
of things in Zion s future.
The likelihood is that Voliya will
restore many of the old customs in
Zion, established by Dowie which have,
in late years, been forgotten.
Voliva is the mag who stepped into
Dowie s shoes while Dowie was on a.
trip and, when Dowie returned, he re-
fused to give up his power and ulti-
nately came to be recognized as Dow
les successor although others claim
the same power. 1t looks as if Voliva
has beat them all to it and now stands
supreme in Zion City.
The investors association through
their attorneys, 0rvis and Beaubien
and MacGuifin sought to stall the
move to sell to yoliva by praying an
appeal and they have six months in
which to prepare their appeal.
The cash plan calls for the pay
ment Of 100000 on October LIST, hence,
in view Of the appeal plan, it is said
there may be question about the
cash being paid at that time.
The sale amounts to IA cents on the
dollar and the investors made an Of
fer to the court to produce fnaneier
who would pay that amount at once
to all dissatisfied investors and leave
the rest where they were. This would
take $27O,Q0o, which, they declared
they had ready. The judge preferred
selling all the estate at once.