Show I DOME DOWIE AND VOLIVA A AARE ARE BOTH DEPOSED I I Judge Landis Orders Election of New General I Overseer COURT WILL SUPERVISE Equitable Title fUll o of AH All I Ill c tOl Is and antI Church Dh of Power Chicago July 27 Federal Federal District Judge Landis today tullY deposed 11 John JohnA A Alexander Dowle his rival Wilbur Glenn oliva and Alexander Granger from rom the ecclesiastical offices of the time Christian Catholic church and or ordered ordered or- or dered an election of oC a new general overseer to administer to the spiritual affairs of the rhe Dowle Iowie city The election is to be he regularly held under l' l the laws of or Illinois and every overy member of the tilt church old will over o twenty one years cars have a n. vote The lime financial and other temporal affairs affair's affairs af nf- fairs Calls of the will be administered administered admin admin- upon a business basis by John JohnC C. C Hatley who is appointed receiver receive under bonds of or Jud Judge e Landis will wJ exercise personal supervision of the affairs of the church and protect the Interests of all mem mem- bers B By the decision the time equitable title of all Investors Is recognized and aull the officers of the church are divested of all power powel save sine that of expounding the scriptures as the they understand them The government of or ZIon CIt City will be a practical republic under the suzerainty of the federal Government All matters pertaining to the welfare of Its members will be he subject to Initiative in initiative In- In illative and referendum with a majority major maJor- ity rule The flue women and men will each cach have one vote veto to cast for fOI the lie determination determination de de- de- de termination of all questions The elections elections elections elec elec- will be under the control of judges appointed b by the state stale election commissioners In refusing to certify to appointments made by hy the present holders of th the property and antI officers of the church Judge Juge Landis declared that tho those e who took toole the restoration oath to forsake their families and disregard Ie gard all human laws alts In their faIthful faithful faithful faith faIth- ful obedience to the general over overseer eer could not not be described in terms of oC sufficient contempt In his opinion all who took this oath are unfit for fOI trust o of any sort Voliva st t Give Ghe Up The acrimonious disputes threats and expulsions of or members b by domInant dominant dominant domi domI- nant parties were all declared to be outside of the litigation and without effect Wilbur Glenn who obtained obtained obtained ob ob- power of or attorney from Crom Dowle Dowie and Alexander Granger to whom Voliva a deeded the property properly must Immediate Immediately Immediately Im Im- mediate mediately abandon control and aull submit to the instructions of the court through the receiver The he publication The Leaves of oC Healing official organ of or the Christian Catholic church in Zion Is ordered to print the tho decision distribute copies to tu all nil subscribers and then to ceASe pub pub- p Judge Landis will select the Judges of election Rival Rhal leaders will be permitted permitted per per- to use the tabernacle alter alter- alternately natel prior to the election Before and after the decision the gathered in the corridors of the federal building and prayed and sang Four Foul hundred followers of the he creed crowded Into the court room Several Se women Interrupted the court during the reading of the decision The They were quieted b by a n threat to clear the room I Sin Status t us of Property I Iwas The property of the church which was claimed as the private property I of Dowle Dowie and later by the Voliva faction fac fac- tion Is made a trust for the benefit I of all who ho have nave either paid money for stock contributed to John Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander Doyle Dowle or bought real estate It Its aggregate ag value is estimated varIOus at from five to lo twenty millions of dol lIol- lars i iThe The principal ZIon City Cily aro arc lace mills a t soap Oal factory factor printing printing print print- ing shops general stores and a 1 private private vate ate bank Lank The tract on which Zion City is lo located located lo- lo catell Is acres in extent and ex- ex tends Lends along tho time lake shore near Waukegan au kegan kes-an In Lake count county Illinois II It Ii was built L by time the followers of or Dowie who was received recel b by them in 1 1888 InSon in Son San Francisco as Elijah the Restorer Re Re- storer a Latter Da Day Saint sent to j i ie e establish a theocracy on earth Prior to that year em Dowle Dowie was an evangelist lIst lIstIn In iii Australia |