The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-20
All Have Decisions About End
Ing European War.
SIX RECENTLY ARRESTED.
Number Of Secret Service Guards
About Tho White House and Capitol
Greatly Increased, and All Suspicious
Persons Are Closely Guarded-one
Sent by ~spirIt Of Washington"

Amy extreme peace advocate will find
1t next to impossible to gain an audi
ence with the president from this time
ON al a 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 men-
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 oil talked incoherently
Of the war and how 1t should be ended.
Among those arrested was Jacob S.
Williams, a 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
United States from becoming involved
In the European war.
God has been appearing to me for
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 a prayer book In his hand when
arrested.
Es-soldier Held.
Whalen Daniels, a native of Adams
county, Wye, once a private I'm Troop
III, Fourth United States cavalry. is
now held for observation" because he
told the police at the capitol that he
was "a member of a royal family"
Frank Frycek went to Washing
tom recently. went into the White
House and said he had been appointed
special priest when he was a boy. He
had a message from the Lord, he said,
which was to instruct President VIII
o what to do in regard to the war.
Frycek's daughter took charge of him.
Letters received at the presidents Of
fce told OF the browning of Herbert
Joseph Oates. a New Yorker, king of
the United States, Belgium and Next
CO. and Oates followed the letters, APP
penring Mt the White House to take
possession. The letters were mailed at
Los Angeles. Cal, where he was stop
ping at a hotel. A loaded revolver
and $2o5 In cash were included In the
property taken from Oates. Arrest and
Incarceration for several weeks did not
effect a change In his views, and he
was adjudged insane.
Tells OF Visions.
WIZ 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 his
mission to the executive mansion he
quickly made 1t plain that he expected
to induce the president to change his
war policy.
II see the spirits OF Washington and
Garfield In my Dreams said Gilman,
land the spirit OF Washington com
manded me to deliver a message TO the
president"
While in custody of the police, II is
said. Gilman was particularly anxious
TO discuss ass~assinations 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 al appointment as peace
envoy was all that was necessary to
end the European war. He is now In
the Government Hospital For the In.
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