The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07
LED BY VISIONS,
 HE FINDS WEALTH
Minneapolis Man Says Dreams
 Directed His Wheat Deals
BROUGHT HIM A GOLD MINE
Hundreds of Pages of Written ReveIa. tions Are Said to Have Been Given Him In sleep-Strange
 Story.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Surrendering him. self to the guidance of visions, w II. Kruse of No. BAT East Seventeenth street, has made thousands of dollars in tho wheat market, has filled hundreds of pages with written revelations and has now capped the climax by discovering what is reported to be a valuable gold mine in the Ozark mountains Arkansas.
 Friends familiar with MT. Kruse's mar ket operation say the wealth which has come to him has not been employed fer seeking further gain nor has the oppor- tunity opened to him by it's possession been used for personal aggrandizement. Instead, he regards himself as an instru- ment through which divine agencies are seeking to do great work. This is noth- ing less than the establishment of com munity that shall exemplify the principles of unselhshness and common brotherhood which MT. Kruse believes is dawning.
 Just how this great idea is to be worked out he does not yet know, but he does know that none of the income from sources revealed to him Is to be used by himself or others for selfish ends. A profound believer in the Bible, he Is a simple man. whose life is dominated by a power which to him at least, is not a bit mysterious He talks of his visions and what they have led him to With modesty and conviction that shows that they are realities to him.
 Those familiar with the gifts or Mr. Kruse know that while he has been large operator in wheat he has never sought to profit by inducing others to ln- vest with him. His success has made them Inf and they are not disposed to class his visions as vagaries, Neither are they ln- clined to regard his operations with sus- picion, for he has no use for other per- sons money and has nothing to sell.
 seeinq Them for Years.
 MT. Kruse has been seeing the visions for many years. It was not until three years ago, however that he surrendered himself to them. He had felt before this that to take them seriously would be to sacrife his individuality.
 He was in the grain commission busi- ness There came vision and message which impressed him so strongly that he decided to act as they had indicated Since that time he has been almost who'll ly guided by them Sometimes he re- ceives word that he is to do certain thing but the time is not indicated and he waits for a supplemental Heading. Sometimes messages cOIlle dilu iiS haAiN writes them out, independent of his own volition he says. Many of these messages are in letter form and embody predic- tions still indefinite as to the time or fulfllment Altogether these fill hundreds of manuscript pages
 It was in the market operations, how ever, that MT Kruse first learned to trust implicitly In his Headings" Many d time he has seen the wheat quotations for a day or two ahead, but he never acted upon them unless explicitly advised. In cases where he Is to go into the mar ket he says he is shown in black and white the amount he is to make At one time, he says, he was told to buy puts at certain figure one Saturday and sell them at a certain time on Monday. He followed instructions implicitly, and his profit was what his vision had indicated. It was more than $10.000.
 Mir Kruse does not recite this and other incidents in a boastful way, nor does he use them to get capital with which to operate. Even the gold mine is not a com mercial proposition, being unique in that it is a mine in which there never was and never will be a dollars worth of stock for sale.
 Story Caused Excitement.