Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — W. G. Vollva May Get Control of Zion City. [ARTICLE]

W. G. Vollva May Get Control of Zion City.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer o* Zion City, 111., protege and later opponent of John Alexander Dowie, religious leader, was placed in position to eventually secure absolute control of Zion City and its industries by a federal court, order today. This resulted when Judge Kenesaw M. Landis accepted the bid of a Chicago real estate firm for the assets of the Dowie estate. Guy D. Thomas.

receiver of the estate, was ordered to dispose of it to the realty company for $700,000. Under a previous contract the realty firm will transfer the estate to Voliva for $900,000. Of this sum Voliva paid $50,000 at the time the contract was drawn up and will be allowed eight years in which to pay the balance of $850,000.

This action practically brings to an end a fight that has been waged for control of Zion City for several years. In bitter opposition to Voliva was the Zion City Investors* Association, composed chiefly of Zioqites. Members of the association wanted the Dowle estate held In trust for a long period of years to secure on increased land values.