The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-14
HIS DREAM MINE
Marvellous Experience of a
Former Wichita Editor.
HOW He LOCATED GOLD
Editor Shelton of Wichita and
His Career in Denver.

| tndI CITY, ana IN d nlSnly lluSudleO dr.
ticle therein read of T ]. Shelton, for
merly of Wichita. The article is fiippant-
~ written, but enough can be CLEANED
from it to show that Shelton is on the
high road to fortune. Shelton edited the
Wichita Daily Times. The article reads:
| The deputy of Providence is putting
thousands of dollars into a mine at Cop
per Rock, near Boulder, and he gets the
money by selling vibrations. 1t is the
| greatest graft ever invented. AS the vi
! brations increase in intensity the pros
! pect Of millions is growing more and
more vivid so vivid that the deputy Is
directing force of miners who are dig
| ging with feverish haste for the vein
that is filled with gold.
The deputy resides at 1866 Marion street
and in probably every country on the
! globe where the doctrine of egotism has
followers, Thomas ]. Shelton is known,
"A small man, thin, with sandy hair firing
ing bald head; a gentle-voiced, smiling
man, sitting between two handsome
young women, stenographers, to whom
swers to corresp ondents in Europe and
Asia The letters contain vibrations at
81 per letter. No one sees the vibrations
He simply says they are there and the
people who send him money believe him.
He has an Office force of six: he can
afford it, for the vibrations bring him in
an income of $4,000 year, most Of which
goes into the Copper Rock mine. But the
stenographers! They came in answer 20
this advertisements:
Il want stenographer and typewriter
"a woman, of course-young, healthy
we'll educated and an individuaHst. Send
photograph and sample of handwriting
with date of BIRTH
One has hair as black as the ravens
wing; her teeth are like pearls and when
the boss dictates a smile and the s1nnla
young lady bends over the machine. the
doctor and deputy shines in reflected
glory or beauty. A quality Of the deputy
is good taste; his offices are luxurious;
his raiment is spotless; his stenographers
are poems.
He began the career that is making him
famous with cents in his pocket
DR.. Shelton is a Kentuckian. When \
young man he conducted a newspaper in
Wichita, Kan. Then he became a min
lister in the Christian church and was
success as a. revivalist. He Travelled.
preahing over the east and middle west.
In 1880 he had a hunch 1t was the Vi
bratory graft which he has so success
fully worked ever since It's an unctuous
thing. At Little Rock Ark where he
was stationed. he began the publication Of
his monthly paper. the Christian. which
IS now being issued in Denver to % 900
readers over the world. His total avail
able wealth at that time was nickel
and Dr. Shelton was forced to borrow
money with which to mail the first issue
1t suited the people, who are said to be
one every minute, and after the sec
ond months edition he paid every obli-
cation he had incurred and had a surplus
to his credit. In this he is indebted to
his daughter, now Mrs. Edna Martin: a
warm, telepathic sympathy sealed their
cooperation.
DR.. Shelton is so years Of age, and has
the distinction of having been one Of the
youngest, If not the youngest, regularly
enlisted soldiers in the Civil war. He
was Is years Of age when he saw his first
fighting.
A dream brought him to Colorado. One
night, nine years ago, in Little Rock, he
saw spot on the slope of a mountain. |
near Boulder Col Minute instructions |
how to find it were impressed upon his |
These he carefully noted, and |
In 1898. when THE Christian a Journal |
Of Christian Science" was bringing him |
in great income. he went to Boulder. |
walked TO the spot of his dream, which /.
correspondent in every detail to the Wis
ion and staked out his claim. Until last /
November he resided in Boulder devel- /
oping the claim at Copper Rock
Many thousands Of dollars have al !
ready found their way through the shaft 1
Of the Shelton dream lode but no ore OF 4
promise or value has YET 1
been encountered The fact does not I
worry the deputy a particle. In the !
dream il was told him to a fraction. the I
number Of feet ii would be necessary & /
sink before the vein would burst into
view This depth has not been reached.
s few feet and-a letter from the super
ntendent received yesterday. states that
the indications OF rich ore are daily
growing more marked. IN the vision II
was said what money Shelton invested
would be returned him an hundredfold. /
But the mere success or failure Of a
mine need not worry the guiding star Of /
l paradise Of hours. such as surrounds /
the deputy Of the Great I Am. as ne /
,als himself. Under such slim. white /
fingers. beneath eyes OF such brilIiancy |
and those Transporting smiles the click 1
OF the typewrsers IS 10 be
to The twanging CT harps. and /
the guiding star. who has written a book |
entitled THE Law Of Vibrations" smiles /
L is al vibrating. too, in perfect har-
ncny.
Il believe that individuality. 7 am
with ali the power thai there
5 in the world" explains tbs c7nsc Gus
.goust. The I Am uses ne as ne5i-
I'M through which 10 accomplish HIS de-
tres. God IS an universal pr.nciuIe: 7
I'm the person Of that principle. Each
Individual IS the person Of The Individual
principle. and his power consists IN The
OF this personality. Thus II
s you become independent Il you be-
ieve God IS another person. . per O.
outside q. and foreign % yourself. you
.re dependent on the other person
The 7 An : the personal na-as -
Re Deity. God has TO name bat 7 an
-ha- An"
And the i25iyfduaHst7''
Ny s;ercg-a9her ss Al iadivisuAlist
In Individuals; IS enc who cozsu,ts him
81 his own mind ard conscfence. as 70
what he shzH d. i IS essential he
hoult get Into the silence. Don-t ask
Tiers what yoc should a.. lo- they VIII
eli you n accordance With how Re M