Oakland, Cal., Seer Writes Chief of Police Concerning Late Calamity Here
Chief of Police Swan has received a communication from B. W. Deboroue of Oakland, Cal., in regard to the recent disaster in Canonsburg. Deboroue styles himself a prophet and seer, and in his bad spelling and worse grammar he goes on to say, in his typewritten letter, that the cause of such disasters is the "angry spirits of those who once lived here and were killed in some manner, and did not get the chance to live out the lease of life that was theirs."
The California "prophet and seer" (he spells it "prohit") attributes the chief cause of such disasters such as the one in Galveston, Texas some years ago, and the one at Canonsburg lately, to the negroes who have been burned at the stake. In February of 1893 the Galveston flood followed the burning of the first negro in America, in Paris, Texas." the writer is wrong in his dates, the Galveston disaster having occurred September 8, 1906. It is hoped he will be even further off in the things he predicts are going to happen in this country. So terrible are they that they are withheld from Notes readers