NEWS OF MINNESOTA. and rate, against swelling at make it with meeting with him. He had been used night of enormous every an one a JOHNNY;” ‘COAL OIL become should Steele Give Bess the day when Johnny bottle champagne to the bluffs of the newly rich in those me. of a his start into to and with.” of days of mushroom fortunes, and he own. come age Day. Bess SIOO,OOO in Squanders the beautiful named that would have made little a was a sum mare SPENDTHRIFTS KING OF At last the time and he rode, and immediately of times Steele’s millions avalanche interest came, an a man many was Freight Bates. the centered of rolled down Steele quickly the wince, but said: " whom her on horse money on owner and St. Paul.—-The railroad warehouse childhood said who, his former driver, in drank champagne. | I’ll check and “Bone. write Bess, poor you a moreover, commission presented maximum a had had much days, and the the down and it cashed as only sober of get never so was you go one of officials merchandise tariff to which outfit The in quarter to spend. hours later, for Johnny drink yourself death.” to way some a Minnesota asked them roads and to WHO MAN CAREER OF YOUNG the Steele made fly caused surely made when he He wrote the check, declined even good started ne money a receipt be -.how should why it not cause mad the oil region, then in its engaged the place, the out to “make of it,” this for and, handing night and a • dopted hereafter. basis as a WITHIN for sit and take MILLIONS chase wealth, of them. proprietor his hat and told to coat, SQUANDERED li.m was up one The tariff is sweeping proposed reluction. a spender “Nobody notice. There who back, and behind the hears voice to went not never was a can come There uniform basis my is no like have imitated spend him before and few desk himself, acting clerk. He Steele,” cent. I’m Johnny a enjoyed for merchandise They as rates. MONTHS. SEVEN are now the and equaled him His first then the since. favorite this about hour, left of the little fellow was conditions. none by competitive an governed cry desk he inexhaustible draw what considered without in charge, entered there and resort, and of on as was an anyone The commission took a were average an SIOO,- always supply those of wealth the within sound who went to barroom, where he at firstclass the distributing was rates gave once present on 000. began each to figure just they the barkeepers months’ how expensive distances two freight, made for given wages BEEN BEATEN NEVER RECORD THAT HAS A bills,” could “Gimme hundred it in dollar make the There and told them owned Pacific, hour with Steele. to get He Northern out. by roads —the seven City is he said cashier Oil yet the to the of the to be found the will place and would it himself. Great Western, who Great Northern, Soo, run man he bank, which he from to had walked Oil It took but few hours for the lad Milwaukee, and Minneapolis & “Coal Johnny” Omaha say ever a saw Rouseville. his home Oil take tire of his Louis. proposed tariff makes creek, change of costly and, St. The at cent from the bar to toy, a up ot money or that anywhere “I show the boys going the street, general reduction from want to of else, for that For out he met impoverished matter. some a on an 4 World-Wide Reputation Acquired John W. Steele, Who time.” such the acquaintance. of cent a good 28 fellow such 8.33 cents, as on young was iverage per no or Johnny things “Billy,” said, this fifty-mile he “take old hotel. haul; 20 And “the boys” shown. dollars small bilis. 7.66 cents, the Winds, Dies as per Money in were or a or by Throwing' to his I bought it, hundred-mile haul; 808 Steele the street with Lights Cigars SIOO Bills. but I’m tired of -•ent, started down with it. on a of Pennsylvania Near Scene Poverty in miles; What yours.” 2-3 It’s 16 150 thousand SSOO bills, and considered the height of cents, cent to one or on every was per miles; Wealth. his 78 His bills. this “Coal 1 cent, 200 of the extravagance About time Oil Johnny” cents 7 he he presented day when Source met the or per on one came one o he miles, tired the 8 13 250 Those and wanted to entered the Exchange of oil region and paid cents, 13 cent, who hesitated Oil- flying at Bradford or per on a and 6.98 300 look Philadelphia cent two of the bills. He to visit and New cents, 10 know why got around. He dabbled to York. per on or never make her independent to unpretentious enough Philadelphia.—ln young woman an miles. oil those in far until of himself. He remained only short time, not “I but had want to gone some a see my Franklin, for life. house little farm near cn a The asked railroad officials time to stories his fearful of and wonderful Mrs. busines shrewd Pennsylvania, McClintock of part in the northwestern was a consider the and the hearing tarriff feats of spending there money came discov- oil day and when other the there died was man woman a continued till Feb. At that 1. back Venango county. One of his was to closest acquired ered her she drove the farm 40 who a on ago years some time the railroads either will to jokes hire cabs agree to as was many as distinction. bargains the producers. possible with remarkable unique and most the evidence show rate present to would accommodate his friends, or in one farm McClintock John W. The pool under the This person was why it should enforced. The be not lead the procession cab, and himself, a she inexhaustible and “Coal Oil bade fair be known to Steele, better as commission the decided has that reduction sitting the with SIOO driver's seat on getting almost little troubel in spendthrifts had of all the Johnny,” king an is and it is reasonable, to up the bills in his hat, drive round streets big reserving in cash, fabulous a the world has known sum ever the traffic officials the to to prove n of the until all tired, then town were her oil brought from all royalty since this several It on years now s that it is not* “Coal Oil Johnny” would along the go about three This farm. had passed out years famous character was once line buying the horse and cab from McClintock. the death of Narrow Escape. the after public, but of sight of the general astonished driver, then each and return allowed Steele not to John short But few Virginia—ln established in the was quicksand record he cave-in of a his each driver present with rig own mother then his foster loaf because wealth rolling in the Lincoln mine, which had been months that he at was again. work had He sent to out timbered remembered. Pelka Nichni, miner, •will long was be money. up, a of End His Career. for the oil He driving Untold. at buried Wealth feet deep, from men. twenty 8 Has wagons was But it long until the not was money of his did have team o’clock beginning at not in the evening in the Inside 12 months, own, of to 6 even a of “Coal Oil Johnny,” like all good each but hired driver, out Steele did and morning, and then rescued alive. 1863, John the close of as a perhaps was things, end. Like flash to came an a night his earnings Saturday wealth of A large boulder, weighing several advertise the were to more it had him almost like to and come a Mc- given Mrs. brought home and to with of the timbers, than together Pennsylvania oil region tons, the any some flash the end In little came. over a the them into who dumped fell small its Clintock, in such that advertised He oilier ten way a a men. months from the time he seven came old farmhouse. of the cavity hoard left about the part beardless it. A at wealth spending by common was upper into his fortune he vast returned to stocks accumulated bank Nichni’s chest head, of his She rapidly and the rest morning find himself boy, he woke to one Rouseville, few miles Oil creek a up surrounding in body dirt firmly valuable properties being held by the and wealth in bulk untold of as possessed above City, Oil and asked for job of a of well in New by rescuing cities vise. The and party of oil royalties towns as from income as as and a an sort. He given the position any was Trojans, fifteen she worked like Philadelphia. But and York ten included. He never Sundays V .750 day, men on per of roustabout the little railroad at station penurious style of being shifs, there close, minute changed the value of has the room did know not money, there, but he fled west to husband soon time. which she and her for only work at much living two to to idea of how this day a not to men any sightseers and escape trying newspaper men When Nichni reached, the candles forced when they had been it has spent, but were and he had was money who from far and to came extinguished, the little near see of the him farm the rocky nearest for $1,500,000 to from to on estimated were teen men pay at and with talk the who had spent worldfamed man air having become exhausted afterwards became the which $4,000,000. run millions in such short time. He lived Nichi is hospital a such degree. to Oil creek. a . the first last a the amount Be as or for long time farm in lowa, and will a on Brings Millions. a Explosion recover. named, the fact remains that in seven then moved to Kansas, where he remained and hired servant She never his coming into from a months' time never Eat Deer Hay. until short time While a ago. which little farmhouse, the moved from wealth he immense possession this of in CrookstOn. —Deer spending the holidays with friend numerous in are so oil wells. a in by hemmed became Inside and broken. through it soon went was the the north that settlers country sight of the old McClintock farm on he doing her insisting Always became own the time he of from on a year Red seriously reservation south of lake stricken with pneumonia, from are was death in her housework, she little to back a he the came Croesus, at was a appeal the considering to which he died. an while performing tragic Rouseville, Venango most station railroad at way, warden them protect state to Unlike millionaires the game of present Early in 1863 Mrs. Me- duties. S4O house trunks hustling at county, a animals. from caused by the the ravages day', Johnny Steele did not turn from morning before daybreak, Clintock has been hustling month. He rose one ever homesteader Andy Higgins, his a wife in the days of his affluence. breakfast usual, to bill. with the grocer’s prepare since to keep as up that the deer from that vicinity, says Nor did she, in the ensuing of years Steele before he went out John made it for who there Never man was a farmer’s hay; that he the eating are poverty, in her affection. When waver asked go,” always said when She made the last sad he for did with his waiting such showers months been in who had for money rain wagon. as money day together eight sur* saw on one quite he married Eleanor J. young with seemingly luscious fire trying light the invest in brief mistake of to and to his in Johnny” during windfall Steele tow some this Oil got “Coal that stack. He believes runding hay a his childhood Moffitt. chum. The knot this oft-repeated oil. But with the bit of flyer in of coal oil claimed giving— horizon. It is his indiscriminate on occasion stopped the a transit a can across send should Warder Fullerton Game a tied just before the immense fortune was the and in from street explosion and he millionaire result. There Pittsburg themselves. newly-rich they it wanted came the was an that fall deputy that section next to inflicted him. and in his was the oil of on unnoticed by burned death. stood she to will long be his that day piker in The history of many look like would was a will let deer that they hay for the so wild days of spending his love money shade scrambling for crude safe in the who kings In old and It not alongside the Oil a lined corner remembered in City. when were spendings was an up settlers’ alone. He the the says crop her for remained constant. There minute in obscurity the little house there the market. One were in Steele borrowed of driver who when dark on Rouseville, Pa., yet one room was young wagon and of patience getting settlers out are scandals with no unsavory ’ enough. women Subsequent Oil Johnny connected $65,000 in gold. for “Coal the day’s found continue millionaire thousands was the few to elevated to in night was a ii a violate the laws liable to game are with the wild spending of Johnny clogged the savings had proved this the The moment he next discovery with his millions, the widelyheralded Steele, of spending. To entire was class. The cost new done. something is not Steele, and all his wild pranks week stepped for only the oil exchange. He McClintock wheels of were easiest of of special last Mrs. or borrowing the "Scotty” a summer was played when from Mrs. Steele. away of hand selected cash where could be exact amount would out he The he furnished “Coal on his later Accidents. things. In seen, a have would not years so. She alone could rule him, and she ruled McClintock Mrs. pocket, pulled death of cigar from his vest the borrowing in those was trouble in of the labor lighters have had a Paul.—A Johnny’s” cigar at St state report Oil anything, him with love. In vain she tried to but is known, another pocket, definitely bills from had long roll of couldn’t financial during the simply supposed for his star department shows that last Steele of ’64. days never check his mad of showering, than been far career money have folding until he to skinned off SIOO note, and it accidents enough more of three fast since set. months 1905, 185 spend his a - money condoled with him when it lit match lighter struck and was Gamblers. reported factories in the Laid by Downfall to state. as a a were all but remained steadfast her in gone, his SIOO bill, then touched it to exactly evenlydivided attached the who early This number almost One of those was love for him through all the dreary, After getting good light from months. cigar. Some Steele the hour of the three in himself to a young among poverty-ridden that followed, years accidents watched it burn fatal. Of the the he accidents Seth Slocum, century note, his wealth a gambler, was were faithful, loving, tender to the end. finger hurts than iegar. the reported work of Slocum friends threw and the to and up, away more were he Railroad shops had one,” said, kind. “Faugh! That’s bad other Steele attribute his downfall. It of a any was LOUIS PHILIPPE’S FALL. and sawmills accidents, another cigar, also lit the tried and “Coal Oil Johnny,” he most until long came not as as SIOO bill. it with next. he known, the biggest new a was now was Excitement in the French Capital under 20 As there 27 paralyzed the members to This simply plunger them all the gaming of at table. ages, were When the Monarch Was from from of 20 to 25, 31 They the big oil exchange. had been 33 of seldom and when he did He age, years won Deposed. from from 30 35, 15 35 to losing fortunes in 25 to 30, 16 to making and invariably his used to he would almost toss 13 from 50, fl from 40 45, 45 to of 40, 19 to such day, but wanton waste the dealer winnings bystander, to money a some or One morning toward the end of from 60, from to 55 to 50 55, 5 under their had before over one saying: notice. never come February, 1848, I sat quietly in given. and whose not my 21 60, the lull in proceedings There ages were yourself hat have “Buy and was a new a attic chamber working hard at my “Coal gathered round and the Johnny Steele.” drink gang on a tragedy of Ulrich Hutten, relates von Fair. Will State Open happy. Oil Johnny.” Then he He ordinary roulette wheel But the was or writer in McClure’s, when a suddenly the Minnesota had attracted attention. for “Coal —The keynote faro deal slow for Hamline. the too was r friend rushed breathlessly into a the struck it, gentlemen. Got do fair of by wanted “Got do to Johnny.” action, and to 1906 Oil He state was exclaiming: “What, room, sitting you it invited fast enough, of when Can’t spend board bunches. He seldom if it. the wanted it in my money managers here! Do not know what you address the have up,” he said, he Hill make “There’s much I to burn it James J. to paker. played too as so ever _ has happened?” “No, what?” “The dedicating and the the fair desk in the big opening cards,” strutted to the main dealing and drawing time lost up French have driven Louis Philippe away stock amphitheater. live grand in sit used when to he to pressed room. new say, and proclaimed republic.” a accepted and will speak Mr. Hill Tries Buy Oil Exchange. slow; it’s old “It’s to on too an a game. I threw down pen—and that my appropriate the subject to much will for “Say, how take ladies’ game.” occasion—which you some the end of Ulrich Hutten. was my perhaps, the von will be, most favorite “Coal the whole place. I’ll buy. I the stunts of One of want to I the touched manuscript never again. the development history of in the significant Oil Exchange for afternoon,” Johnny” walk into the Oil to one was a gambling own We down tore the stairs into Northwest. the in the agriculture of really with few of his choice said “Coal Oil Johnny,” room a street to the market the square, in and seemingly thinking he accustomed friends and the proprietor sell earnest, ask to meeting place for all the of the amphitheater opening The could the place. “Where’s usually bought the him the place. He at buy student societies after their It the midday is largest event. will be great proprietor? Tell him Johnny Steele is fearful figure, and then would take a a dinner. Although In and it still the forenoon, amphitheater country was the place. chair here and buy I’ll his place the dealer’s and loan wants to at the market importance already emphatically the emphasizes most crowded was him himself. give it his friends play against back to to-morrow; make to money with talking of the Minnesota state. excitedly. young men, him of it.” much about dealing present He didn’t know a There shouting, noise, only was no no whether Such buying the faro, could scarcely tell proposition as a News Notes. agitated conversation. W T hat did Bradford Exchange lost for the house, and Oil impossible, we card was a won or singing Minneapolis—The German want there? This probably this easiest of picking for but it about the only thing that no one the so was was Cities will hold of Twin societies the knew. But since the a French had Steele liked those the sharks who had associated themselves John in days ever Feb. rehearsal here 14. general driven Louis Philippe and a away little king of spendthrifts. that he couldn’t buy. Veteran oil with the proclaimed men of Wing—A business change Red the republic, something, considerable of Pennsylvania in yet shiver western Red Wing and importance to happen must here, too. Some course, throughout when they think what might have hap hiring The spread of people evolved the idea SI,OOO to 000. There in addition, news soon were, extremely of cities throughout the number of the students had brought their a had thing world of this modern lad of pened such that the —well, tbe rest help and then him, valuable money oil a as proposed properties besides was transfer occurred in the of Northwest along, r rapiers if it as From the north, by Steele that day been ere that he possible. w necessary and the McClintock farm which was easy. this at easy. was of the Charles business lumber the to make attack at defend to once south and and from gold Had Steele his mad of an east the in spending or Farmer. time Adopted by belching career forth royalties the a at Lumber other local Betcher to company ourselves. We dominated California of the oil of gamblers control market for were got Waterloo, of $1,750 Steele born rate John day the McClintock camps came for near was a outside parties. and by feeling that great outbreak would have vague the old brace for fleecing day he made a fall of heir, a with Venango in the John Steele. county. Pa., games even one has declared strike been Duluth —A of elemental forces had begun, Steele. For him, ’tis said, widespread trouble. His but Johnny mania fer John left orphan when quit 1841. He working He now at was an once. never boiler-makers employed Duluth by the at if earthquake impending of time reached crooked faro boxes and spending that had as an back specially at such was few between went of and when to work after roulette the tragic a years age and Superior. which had felt first the shock, and made, for did he would have wheels he not proportions that stopped we death of his foster and eight of were parent. was seven years age —Gasoline similar Duluth to instinctively crowded together. cars, ignorance of the remain in nothing to gain additional we Yet he at by Culbertson couldn’t long adopted McClintock, enter games into the full notice, a Union Pacific railroad, the those Thus wandered about in on when he run had be millions he had enjoyment of this time to and with the then well-to-do farmer and the we numerous living the outskirts for he came on money, was used will be the be system to bands the “Kneipe,” where on new to lost of the market. that he turn he might have cornered the what is of and the shown of Oil City. McClintock our not a authorities on age, now proper and Hibbing from Biwabik this built restlessness, however, would suffer not always shown. His This to the offer buy out Bradford Oil his simply took the immense He owned farm, famed card. since estate in hand was own long year. then other table Oil to stay; to the gaming in the first Exchange “Coal In oil “The McClintock few short history for the months losings at us which was as near as divided as grand executive Paul—The St. fell into committee pleasure resorts, where Johnny” dabbling in the millions moneyed to Farm." it of dollars’ the driver half of his From from we career his were something ever came wagon young of the U. C. T. committee with all of names his conversation a he fluid had fortune. this short fabulous. Then seemed to which made worth of oil taken later. millions. During time manner Steele was years work for better hotel inspection to find in them the sought Hotel; It Back. to Culbertson business of the and Buys Gives strangers, It for McClintock, good judgment. tire all not showed at same game once was some laws. It after this confused, astonished and expectant enjoyment. few days that the benefits hundreds who fields for however, to of There would have reap was a new were Minneapolis—Fire broke the out in the back the Champagne. Steele again electrified oil of mind; then to the oil. died three his That Drank state He loaned him anything Horse market prospects, some upper years on jf P. Snider, Mount residence S. 1226 Bradford, Steele rode might be going night of his purchases. what before oil discovered his One at He to place, but his credit be it said he did country by to not see square, was on one and did about 82,000 Curve avenue full else, the leading again somewhere and when his will read it down the main street at speed walked into of hotels then heavily debt. there; into He content on was was was one go on building. damage the to for which he had found beautiful the aim and end, until that he had left the farm of the region, and seeking proprietor without his until to to wait the to him, and a mare, money came so on, reported the is that Edward Duluth —It X paid $3,000, through the swinging wife during her life, and it and said: night fatigue then late in the and in the meantime, through the finally was compelled proper Lumber during Hines company his of saloon 100 John doors where oil this to to Steele, adopted “I like the looks of place and find the home. authorities, sold of his I he atom to go a men way son. an us sold feet week of last 35,000,000 the doing their him There also best emulate adopted daughter, to it. much is It, big just at the time the oil want buy How interests to spot was were an Ashland and be lumber, at to sawn named Emily Scott, she getting rid of their did but does in He cash. Steele and collars and belts that boom reached the He disposed I’m Johnny I hav? not crests suits and Linen money. Duluth broker sold and has Superior, a soul, but that to have been left know didn’t after ironing anything by of the ; Star not matter. money.” the dry two Lone wells to John the in to laid appear a sun are Saginaw. The feet prices to 10,000,000 ilotel McClintock. Years when Steele stiffer than if dried later, $65,000 cash. looked much Mawhinney for This The the went proprietor ot will be on a from 82.50 $3 lumber of to range a rolling in he Johnny Steele. Close the wealth, to the into pool, which “I’m doors the at the beardless boy. It his first line. was gave common was was v than thousand higher a year ago. mmmm -