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Show RELIGIOUS PROPHET I DISTURBS DENVER For a number of years Denver has H b. n afflicted with a religious fanatic H VI styles himself Joshua Svkes. head f the Tabernacle of David. The chief of police has filed a complaint against hun, charging tin new "Jehovah" with aruelty to children and immorality. The followers of Sykes are estiraat-I estiraat-I sd at 600 They believe in free love, fl and are looking forward to th com- lag of the judgment of the Lord with in seven weeks, when they will be in possession of the palaces of the rich,. Ifi the meantime they are refusing to V work and their children have become I as the dogs of Constantinople search ing the alleys tor something to rat. Joshua Sykes is not a criminal. He Ik nothing more than an unbalanced fl religious enthusiast, yielding to hit pistons, and should be confined in a cental hospital. Those who a pi H his doctrines are weak minded and should be directed in iheir affairs ir much the same manner as are lh wards of our Juvenile courts. BBBBBBM . rwi .i |