Show f DOWIE DOIE LIES DEAD IN CITY HE FOUNDED I Death at Last Claims Grizzled Patriarch Who Founded Zion S VOLIVA RULES SUPREME S The liThe Has C Come me I S Will Be Back I In n a Thousand Thousand Thousand I and Years S t I Chicago March i 9 John John Alexander cl I D Dowle Is hi I dead In fn Zion CIt City o S S rhe The founder of or a creed red the tho builder S of a cRy city former spiritual h wail head of or S believers throughout the thc world S accepted a 3 as the O first t apostle o of th Urn ha haS v ne S dispensation and as I Elijah lIjah th the tc restorer tor r S and once possessed pos I ed of WIth wealth estimated e. e ed el at nt he ht lied died a pauper Th The last worn wor of the th an n an who ho a divine mission lon ns the 1111 iri- iri phet of tho were wert I I 1 will come eone back hauk again In III a n thousand thou thou- S sand years Dr Howie's Dowle death ileath WitH was announced S I officially h by John Johll C. C Hately rece receiver lve r rIn In of f Zion ZInn and Wilbur Glenn GlennS S va oliva spiritual head of oC the this Icle II S community said It will not affect Zion City's material destinies The receivership S r wl l lII continue until Zions Zion's dh debts leI S. S have ha been I n liquidated after aft which the tho p estate inte will wll be turned 0 over 01 1 to a committee cornS com corn S 5 appointed d b by the lIw church S S Hardly had Dr Dowle breathed his hIt last when Receiver lintel Hately took possessIon possession pos pos- session or of Shiloh house where the death occurred of all Its rich furnishings furnish ings Ing and anti the hc bed d upon which the fallen fallen fallen fall fall- en prophet expired Shiloh hou house e Is valued at J It probably will be bf beS S sold to the th highest It bidder and thi the man money u used Uel In the payment of Zions Zion's debts Changes fore U-fore Death 5 It was sas rumored In Zion City that S S some orne time his death Dowle Dowie had hadS altered d hh his will b by which II he had left 95 per C cent of oC his estate to the church S and the n remainder to to his family and S Jha devised his entire estate to his hisS t S S wife anti autI son The change chang If It one ono has hos hasS hasch IV b ch made mad will lJ be pf pr no const consequence QU nce r 0 if hiir V wr a l Dr Vr Dowle had J lost st every'S every every- S 'S l Iy tJ a u l pension pensioner S er r upon ln ho ln di faithful J q ful I J J. 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I r. r 1 If irr tuno u I b pot Pv Dow S 55 to be burled burlea from Shiloh tabernacle with th lh the rights or of the church because Dr Dowle Dowie had boon been excommunicated S tU refused l to discuss the l' l report l' l rt S It la In believed b by those thone e In tn a u position to know mow that Voll Voliva will not Interfere S anti and that thal Dr fiO followers rs r will wl pay pa their last lat tribute to the dead 1 S S I h by services In th the ta tabernacle Gladstone Dowie Iowie said ill tonight the r remains main would be hl Interred d In Lake Mound round cemetery In the h heart art of Zion CIl City b beside hl the grave traO of Esther joth l' l Do Dow Je Ip only daughter of the ram family II who was wa burned to death several I. years S ago ngo The date has hns hot has not het been n fixed I lIt S who overthrew o Dowie and anI I usurped his power justly according i tS to some orne anti and treacherously according 1 to others r arrived at Shiloh house houseS S j i nt after er Dowl s 's death and amI amII I viewed wed the ther r remains He lie issued this thi statement statement- t Dr Dowle's Dowles departure will in III not no noway I t S. S wa way effect the work of oC Zion r adversely EI SJ J Owing to his sad ad physical and mental 5 5 condition for foi more than a year 11 he hadS had S been a great hindrance In many ways was S dw that he has gone to his reward all bitterness and fe feeling lIng whether 5 just or unjust which ha has entered the theS S hearts of many who were once his devoted de- de de dc- I voted oed followers will disappear Dr Dowle has done a work for fOl I f Ij poor humanity In severn several I re r eclipsed ed b by no other of or tit the past or Dr present ent H He Heas was as what the world calls st a n dreamer but dreamers ha have been beenS S the tIme worlds world's greatest benefactors t Henceforth the entire nt people of or 4 S Zion will talk of or hi his good deeds and andall andt t- t all nil defects will be forgotten especially 1 x If times time should prove that owing to o overwork his mind began to fall Call set soy ev- soy'S everal t S 'S era eral yea years ago Personally I loved lovell t him for seven years eurs with the thc love lo lovet t which a son mon has for a father futher 1 J i Usurper Has I Done loime on UN tile He B t. t ti t The task taik imposed on me one year yearS car S few men are called ago ngo was such uch as upon to perform Tho Thu future will 5 t. t clearly prove I did the best bett I could for the people and the estate state and the ck I con conditions being so o complex UrU unit and the S interests t so vast ast I could not take lake Into S lIon hi mental state regard regard- of 1 I log JUI which hi V i e there was was a n wide i f I t of oC opinion of or doctors Death so far Car as asI plans alter I mow know now flow will wIH not mint my S1 t S Regarding the burial I can sayS say wiy S noth nothing I I Inasmuch as OS I ha have 0 not conS consulted con con- S with S Dowies la last t public appearance appearanceS whim when six fix weeks ago tomorrow S was religious services ser In n theS tho the conducted S he con of hou house 1 before a U small parlors gathering gathering- of uC tho e who still remained S faithful to him biEn after after- ebbing Friday S III life began 1 Ho He S when he lie fell Into a delirium I noon lie he was addressing ti a l monster I fancied fane e 1 In o of f h hi his j. j gathering of hl hits hitS hitS' S J. J tabernacle and In Ui the old S days das I Oln GIre them thefts all oil seats scats he lw said I 1 S all to heal toe S. S want raUt them lasted threeS three- three Ills he lie fell S or of art hour bout Then quarters until j o'clock S S fitfullY asleep and slept awoke he to S SaturdaY meriting Barnes n a hut JUll Judge e S j anti and asked hut but who deserted supporter funnel formel sent nt be standard VolI a tot CUI th the S I for fort forS I tenet t I lIe Die if n fl S arrived he heS When hen Judge tIme thu upper Into S S ushered lIme lImeS waH ets duet la ha 10 his buildS In III his an ant antS ant'S S t ln Of f Pago paro Two r 7 ed on S I. I I DOWIE LIES DEAD IN CITY HE FOUNDED Continued from Page lage On One Into his face nee antI and smiled faintly Once the dying dlug man saul said J 1 III die tUo of t-t a blOk broken h heart art t but ut I 1 forgive forgive for for- give them thorn 11 fill all Again ln he Ii 1 murmured time tho one word Bolivia Then with hl his last Int expiring he h loud l enough no gh for tor all in lime Iho room to hear The ha come I will come back in a thou thousand thousand- nil years He sank an back upon his pillow a faint smile mlle Illuminated his Co face ct Ills his lingers rIngers closed in a la last t tremulous pressure upon Judge Barnes Harnos' han hand Death came as peacefully as If It he lie had hall fallen asleep John Alexander Dowle Dowie was horn born In Ed lId- Scotland May Ia 25 1817 In BC his mIs Tits parents removed cd to Adelaide Australia Austra lia ha wh where rc for seven years the youth was nun clerk In a business house I lore here Dowle Dowl I d developed lh the commercial II instinct nel l that Hint served ser him no so well 11 in later life Ill lie ne saved enough lIo mooney money y during this po pe period nod rial to return to J Edinburgh at al th the age of 20 to take lake a five years years' course In theology theol ol og ogy and the he arts Iii Hit became a master I loc of Greek Creek and Hebrew and cultivated a I. I literary y taste tast that resulted In after years I In lna a library of or volumes with which he lie was thoroughly thoroll familiar Six years of denominational activity Wearied W Dowle who ulio ho longed for a wider r field of oC operations lie forsook his church and In 1878 1875 went to Melbourne where he set sel up III a free fre Christian tabernacle tab tab- the the- theOrn first Orn of or Its kind and organ orRan- ic ic-d a a divine healing association which afterwards afterward became International onal in char char- acter I He ito became mo t of this association asso aso 0 t I elation nn and gained fame by going oni limb Into the country during the l prevalence valne I of oC putrid fever ever anti and a apparently appam pp effecting many cures by lIy prayer cr arid and the h laying on of or han hands 8 I After Arter ten years cars In Melbourne Dowie decided to remove to England where hl his as association had hod a number of branches hut butt I I t time the 11 fates took him across the Pacific a and nil his announced Intention of making Great at I i n world headquarters was n never ncI cI carried out omit II 1 In lii Saim Kurly Enily Dowie Dowle lan landed ed In iii San Francisco co in Il 1188 n t nl-t mOI money I 11 He Ic nC needed d' d II M. M nail and hall had just told his hiM wife wie he hUll haul asked tl toil for forit it It he lie said when a man he had not seen Ill Iii months ca came nie olon along a and ml pu put t the a at in his hand han That was uvas the starting starling point I. I his hiI wonderful mone money f getting career rolIer In III I I I i the time western world Two years lars of or wandering wallI wan wall dering along time the California coast const followed fol oh- oh I lowed IC and amid thorn then In l O Dr DI Dowl Dowle hs J JI wife utile his hiN son Alexander John Gladstone I Dowle Dowie and his daughter Esther arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived tJ in iii Chicago which was to be the he theatre of oC his gJ great gival work During the nt next live years yeam car c Dowie was arrested tl at least leant t 10 times s for Cor or violation of uC the city ordinances cR relating to time the care carl of the sick but the he more mor trouble that was mantle made for rol him time the more mort he lie pi Branch ranh churches were established t. h In iii other r cities a large hospital for th the healing lu of the tho sick was built in i a printing plant put limit In operation opera opera- tion and a a. bank was also started The Christian Catholic church in Zion CIt City till the outgrowth of the original In International In- In Divine Healing a association was formally or organized in February l l Dowie Dowle becoming general overseer Four years ears afterwards Dowle before a large Jane audience In the auditorium theatre theatre thea thea- tre hc announced that he- he hewa was wa Elijah the thC restorer The assumption of a Biblical personality created even cven more o of a n senI sensation sen sen- among the than any I of or the tho worldly successes ses of oft the thc e eL t. t J Pi- Pi Previous Piro ro y i t l owl nuu eJ out his s plans t r CIt City the he m crown crown- crownIng Ing lag effort of hl hits his 11 life fe Sl Six thousand acres of ot- ot land were purchased and In iii August l 1001 oOl the first building was erected In Zion City which a year car later later lat lat- er lr ha had a population of or Owned Zion ion City Tn In Zion CIt City Dowie Dowle was supreme The Time title of the acres bought with the alOne money ne of time the sect rc rested lell In iii him Lots for 91 were leased not sold oid Running flied filed 11 with the lie years ar th these e leases were following restrictions The premises shall never nc be U used d fo Co foa for fora a a slaughter house saloon aloon or beer r gar gar- den loha tobacco co store Opium joint theatre gambling establishment nt dance hull c circus pharmacy drug Ug store tore office or residence of oC a practicing physician or surgeon place for selling pork porle or se secret secret secret se- se cret meeting place In la December Zion City was placed li under control of a a. Ce federal r re receivership re- re c which was dl dissolved a n week weel titer later on Dowle's Dowles o of ability t to pay dollar for 01 dollar on all an At that lint I line limn Dowle Dowie e estimated the vJ ue- ue of or l His holdings in Zion City a at l llO gl Eighteen months ago 00 Dowle lowie began nn the time promotion of a second Zion City in Mexico While engaged In III this undertaking under emitter taking his health failed and he lie went r 1 t to o Jamaica for or his hits health Hh While hit there the he suffered a stroke o oJ 01 paralysis ls from which he h. never fully recovered It was wasat wasat at itt this thin time that he appointed Wilbur n Gli-n Voliva hits first t lieutenant and general enral overseer O of oC the church The Flie month Voliva took char charge e of Zion City lie he by a power or of attorney e vested tet InI in hIm It by O Dowle Dousie owl had all the lie property belonging belonging be IJ- longing to lo the church transferred from Dowle rowie to O Overseer eer Granger charging I extravagance and gross 1015 mismanage mismanage- I ni II it t b by Dowle 1 culled called all nil the tIme Zionists to io th the tabernacle In Zion City I avid and I Dowle Dowl With Vitti till the 4 ox- ox XI x- x I option of el less hess than 2 iW J of Dowlen forI for for- I iner followers nil tho the Inhabitants oCI of oC Zion City chose chOHo VolIn an as their future lender header and word was waR sent to 0 Dowle Dowl I In Mexico tt that t he lie had hind lJ been cn deposed lIe He Immediately started tor for Chicago anti and took time the conto controversy rY to the courts I for Cor Retirement |