Show f f af a t mE a TO PROVE THEORY COLORADO o MAN STARVES AS RESULT OF STRANGE VISION w h i H HOPE PE IS IMMORTAL LIFE Convinced That Mortal Being Can Exist Exl Ex- Ex r l 1st Forever This on Earth He Tries v to Find Succumbs Solution Solution Succumbs t. 11 After Day 60 Fast P Denver Col In In b. b vain attempt to win i Immortal mortal life on earth by a method method meth meth- Wt od revealed to him in a vision and from a morbid study of the philosophy philos philosophy philos- philos ophy of the life hereafter Charles LaMountain La LaMountain J j Mountain of Arvada died of starvation starvation starvation tion after a self-imposed self fast of 60 d days ys The is story a most wonderful one Qt of J the striving of a human soul to reach Immortality and a knowledge of the after fter life groping around studying studyIng study- study r Ing thinking In a vain effort to art arC arrive ar ar- C t t rive at a solution a He died in an effort to prove that t. t upon the human frame a new body o co could ld b be built repeatedly after the theold theold old one had been wasted away by k i 0 i i If 1 r A J I 1 BECA BECAME IE CONSCIOUS THAT I THE I-THE THE j f IR REAL AL r HAD r HAD LEFT THE MORTAL r BODY i starvation M More re than two months ago he began the process of starvation tion and such was his iron will that for for two months he kept alive never tasting f food od but finally nature got the better of him When he started he weighed pounds and was was a giant In Strength and ruggedness He weighed pounds pounds' th the day before his end According to Mrs hire M. M L. L Martin the sister Bister LaMountain was born 57 years 57 years ago At the age of ot 17 he enlisted and lilt served throughout the civil war Atthe At Atthe the end end of the civil war he went to to M Mexico serving under under under- Diaz and the I patriots against the invasion of the h French and Maximilian who were t there trying to est establish bl sh an empire l lie He e never returned east cast but came to Colorado and he became came a railroad engineer en en- He served PS' PS s' s engineer until the boiler 01 of his engine exploded near Leadville In the early days of the great camp and since that time he has been engaged in various enterprises enterprises enter enter- mining sheep raising and In Inventing Inventing In- In venting He retired several years ago I with money enough to keep himself sister Bister and a crippled brother whom I he be has las been supporting all his life jn In his everyday behavior he was al always always al- al always ways normal clear to the end and j there seemed no trace of insanity His peculiar Interest In the unknown problems of life and his straying after ra Immortality began at the death of aniece a aniece niece and her two children many years v ago upon whom his affections were centered entered He had been beefs an infidel not believing in any religion and In the answers answers they give sive Ive In regard ture life 1 iV II t li i H J lit i f V J H J j. i r. t ft f lie le began the study of everything that promised to throw light on n the mystery said his his' brother He re read d dev ev everything r strange books on mesmerism mesmerIsm mesmerism mesmer- mesmer mesmer mesmer- ism psychology science weird philosophies philosophies phil phil- of the Hindus Egyptians and of all the people on earth you can think of It became a passion with him Some years ago he be came to us Inthe In n the morning with th the remark It is all right Dont Don't worry about Lizzie She Is better of off than we are Then he told us a story of remarkable vision I was lying on the bed In my room he said sala when suddenly I 1 became became became be be- came conscious that I the I-the the r real real al I had I-had had left the mortal body I turned and saw my body lying on the bed I was a spirit or something 1 I I know not hot what Impelled by some unknown and unseen power I left the hJ house lse and soon felt myself rising In the air After awhile we stopped It was a place something like this world of ours only much more beautiful But there was no sun there We moved on and finally reached the most beautiful spot that eyes have ever seen There were flowers and long vistas of beautiful trees I heard music and sweet voices It seemed as if It aUthe all aU the grand music I had ever heard was joined Into one A Away way in the distance I saw a great crowd And there I i saw Lizzie From that time my brother became more morbid than ever on the subject He was sure that the vision was real realand realand realand and that he had been taken to another another another an an- other life Finally from his vision he became convinced that a person can live forever in this world provided only he can renew his body and that it was possible to leave it temporarily and wander to the next world He developed developed developed de de- a theory that starvation was necessary to to get get rid of ot the old body and before a new one could take its place He began the gr great at experiment Of course we knew he hi was just starving himself to death We tried In every way to persuade him to eat But he was a man of inflexible will He kept getting weaker thinner and thinner until everybody saw that he could not live much longer but bui still he would not eat He recognized his hl mistake a few days before the end eUlI He felt feIt he was going He said then that he would take tale nourishment but he had been a vegetarian all his life and we could not get him to take any broth or meat We called in Dr E. E P. P Greene but It was too late He Ile He passed away cheerfully cheerfully s saying Ive made the great experiment and andI I guess I have failed But I am not sorry It is all for the best |