Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-07-22
MANY GRANKS TRY
TO SEE PRESIDENT
All Have Decisions About End
ing European War.
SIX RECENTLY ARRESTED.
Number of Secret Service GuaTd0g
About the White House and Capitol
Greatly Increased, and All Suspicious
Persons Are Closely Guarded-ons.
Sent by spirit of Washington"


Sent by spirit of Washington"
Any extreme peace advocate will find
it next to impossible to gain an audi
ence with the president from this time
ON as result of the number of cranks
who have called at the White House.
recently and aired views on the Euro
pean war that showed they were mena-
tally unbalanced.
At least six persons, apparently in
sane, have been arrested by the White,
House guards in the last few weeks
while trying to force their way to the
president They all talked incoherently>
Of the war and how it should be ended
Among those arrested was Jacob s.
Williams farmer of Port Matilda,
Pa, who said he had been command
ed to see the president and deliver the
Lords word as to how to keep the
In the European war.
God has been appearing to me to.-
the past month";" he said.
Williams brothers went to Washing
ton and took him home. They said he
had displayed an unusual activity IN
religious matters before he left home
He had prayer book in his hand when
arrested.
Ex-Solder Held.
Whalen Daniels, native of Adams
county, Wyo., once private in Troop
H, Fourth United States cavalry, is
now held for Conservation" because he
told the police at the capitol that he
was "a member of royal family"
Frank Frycek went to Washing
| ton recently, went into the White,
House and said he had been appointed
special priest when he was boy. He
had message from the Lord. he said..
which was 10 instruct President VIII
son what to do in regard to the war
Frycek's daughter took charge of him
Letters received at the presidents Of
l fee told of the crOwning of Herbert
| Joseph Oates. Now Yorker, king OF
the United States. Belgium and Mexi-
| CO and Oates followed the letters ap-
pearing at the White House to taxa
possession. The letters We're maled at
Los Angeles, CAL where he was stop
| ping at n hotel. A loaded revolver
and $3.50 in cash were included in tho
property taken from Oates. Arrest and /,
incarceration for several weeks did not
effect q change in his views, and he.
was adjudged insane.
Tells Of Visions.
Wifi Gilman, also a White House,
caller, is under care and observation
at the Washington Asylum hospital.
awaiting trial. When a secret service
agent stopped him and inquired hts
mission to the executive mansion he
quickly made it plain that he expected
to induce the president to change hts
war policy.
II see the spirits of Washington and
Garfield in my Dreams" said Gilman.
'and the spirit of Washington com
manded me to deliver a message to tha
president"
While in custody of the police, it fs,
said, Gilman was particularly anxious
to discuss assassinations and the shoot
ing of Theodore Roosevelt.
Wasili Gorbah, a native of Russia
and resident of Cleveland, o.. who was
arrested at the White House, wanted
the president to appoint him a peace
envoy. He said he was the Lords sue
cessor, and an appointment as peace
envoy was all that was necessary to
end the European war He is now I'm
sane