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TO SEER A RECEIVER.1___ Atrailof theTeed as the pre-eminent Koreshan Unity, went to Tampa, says the Tampa Times, and is located onivenne. These two Dersons re-Estero Community Files Up NumerousClaims—The Head is Ostracised, j Florida' —.. - . T -« , „ fused to assume dictorshipWithm a few days there will be filed otherSi of th(, comfflnajtbe-a bill in Tampa asking that Judge Wall,that the peopleof that city, appoint a receiver for the m0ney into Teed’s hands and had worked Koreshan Unity, located at Estero, Lee in building up the Koreshan colony,county, Florida. A well known attor- should be given what rightfully be-rebelled and leftney of Tampa at the present time rep- * longedresents over $50,000 of claims against Estero. Othersthe property held by that body. These have with them lt;claims run from $570 to $8,550, and in tion of the property values.one instance even a greater amount, * Since their leaving it is said that it running into five figures.majorityke those still at the helm at Es-e trying to starve out the residue misguided followers of Teedism.limed that there is insufficientSome three weeks ago there registered at the Tampa Bay hotel two attorneys from Bristol, Tenn., who went It is there to engage a Tampa attorney to food protect their clients’ interests at the rateKoreshan community, near Bristol, and that some suffer indignities which as has been published, will be handsmess halls for men and)f the “big ones. ” It is also resold at sheriff’s sale for the benefit of ported from Ft. Myers that Koreshanscreditors. The followers of Koresh atBristol, waking up to the fact that the creditors would absorb everything ofapplyingd it is a matter of fact committed suicide at Es-value in the courts’s decree, sought to tero two weeks ago, driven to it through protect teemselves by attaching the financiaproperty at Estero. It is understood that the best they could do was to getworry.Wanted to I fid ate.third mortgage on the Estero hold- Estero has been a thorn in the fleshings of Teed, as it had already been of Lee countv ever since its existence.“blanketed” twice.Followers Lost Faith.Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the rounder this peculiar sect. died recentlyremains laid on the bed;Teed and others assumedshown theirplaces they put up independent tickets and made a strong fight all through the county. The community stirred uproom for throe days and refused to trou“ea t,hrou*htheil““w;Teedand takeand cret downfollowers lost faith in some of his teachings, particularly that which applied to his resurrection. Even after thev hadremainedin Tampa, is without funds. Friends have given her an asylum. She is a woman of fine education and queenlybearing. She was the wife of a wealthyings on the street. Afterwards, when he Doweyized a few hundred thousandto his private needs he set up a fineoffice and did business, so we are told,in what was virtually a vault A citizen of Tampa, who was a reporter onthe Chicago Record-Herald and put on Teed’s movements, says he got an audience with Teed by filling his private secretary with campagne until he got to the pink alligator stage, when hewas admitted to Teed’s sacred precinctsfurther saidTeed taught celibacy, there were some babies in the place, cooing softly. Teed, it is claimed, said they were divine inspirations, or some other tommyrot.One of the wonders of Teed’s teachings is how he could separate families-how wives would forsake husbandsand husbands forsake wives-and take their all and turn it over to him and do his bidding forever afterward. At Es-than ordinarywomenand women of prepossessing appearance. The wonder is, how did Teed hypnotize them?I2tiI1(1(LosTeedremainsbottlednot seal the door, still be-that TeedbusyBrownt:odeparted Teed continued to moulder andthe Koreshans began to think for themselves.Bad to WorseThings have been going from bad to worse for some months. Dr. Graves, the mayor of Estero, deserted his post and took up his residence in Tampa,where he now has rooms on Jacksonstreetselyting in California, and she listened to his finely painted picture of the ideal life at Estero, where all would be provided for the remainder of one’s life; where there would be no worries or cares, and that he, the second Messiah,wjuld minister to their earthly wantswith divine intuition. She left with Teed, it is said. Her husband found her in Chicago, and report has it that he recovered from Teed by suit, or compromise, some $25,000 which his wife had taken with her and gave to The Cause,Run Ont of Chicago.Teed, it is said, was run out of Chi-1r1tI1tc«lt\riSV ictoriaftsucceeded cago years ago for preaching his teach- t
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Live Oak Suwannee Democrat
Live Oak, Florida, US
Fri, Aug 27, 1909
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