The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-18
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 n1 HE man who would be king"-
 NY of Milwaukee avenuel This is
 the Paul o. Stensland, forger, bank wrecker and refugee-a hunted thing less winged feet than are carrying him from his enemies, his deluded subjects and the inqusitions of the law.
 Unbounded confidence built out of the fabric of acknowledged unpopularityi Grocer Stensland began this; Real Estate Agent Stensland took it up; Banker Stens- land neared the goal of its miraculousness and King Paul Olson Stensland main tained the throne of 1t for year-and a day. Then abdicated.
 Twenty-one years ago last March a little store burned down in Milwaukee avenue just north of Indiana street. It was a typical Milwaukee avenue general store. Naturally enough, considerable line of insurance was carried to protect the two men who owned it under a CO., partnership. Considerable of the stock was saved, even more considerably dam aged by fire and water. This residue was loaded into trucks and carted up MIL waulxee avenue to vacant storeroom on the west side of the avenue, just north of Carpenter street.
 Absolutely with no relation to this fire and this removal of the damaged goods a young man had arrived in Chicago to take the superntendency of the old Hum boldt school, in that neighborhood. He reported to the president of the board of education for assignment and instrue- tions.
 'Ill tell you,' said the boards presi- dent, you go out to a little store full of fire-sale stuff at the corner of Milwaukee avenue and Carpenter street and ask for the committeeman of the district there, he'll attend to all that"
 The new principal of the Humboldt school went out there, entered the blank, jumbled storeroom smelling of the un- mistakabe evidences of burned substances flooded by water, to see man of blond hair, blond, bushy whiskers and unkempt dress, sitting upon a bale of dry goods.
 q am the school committeeman for the district-yes; what can I do for you?''
 And the school committeeman was Paul O. Stensland, with his partner, burned Oul OL buSincSS oiiiy q oo5 OA INV D~ANAo o' yet sitting patiently cheerful there, re- garding the possibilities of vacant store front just across the avenue, and wedged there to a sharp point between Milwau- kee avenue and Carpenter street.
 I'm going to rent that corner for real estate office just as soon as we can close out here" said the school commit teeman, speaking In measured, perfect English. with only slight mark of the Norsemans accent.
 Today that wedge point in the two streets is the shell of the gutted Milwau- kee Avenue State bank.
 Stensland closed the lease for the ground floor corner in the wedge building. It was a bigger space than he needed. At the north angle of the Carpenter street side he cut off a real estate office from the main floor with partition of Georgia pine. A florist rented from him strip of the same width opening on the west into Milwaukee avenue. A sub-station Of the Chicago public library took the ex- treme wedge point between the two streets, while in the central space cigar stand opened for business.
 Sub-ietting his own leased ground floor was Paul O. Stensland's first real estate experience, and there were those tnat