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Show j "COAL OIL JOHNNY" DYING Man Who Spent S2.000.000 in Seven Months Is a Pauper. KR NKJ.IN. la.. Jan 7 -John W Steele. H "Coal ih JJhnny," who spent J 1 ,000 (too in H KVAO m nhn. is 'lying pennlles at the Fe H 'iometead. near hre H t. Ir, acquired hlH wealth when he hrrame H :t years old. When h- was H he liaM nut one H - nt When he WtM V. he was at work nmonc H tnen. who saw him burn hla fortune, receiving H -l V per day He ha spent the last year) ( H Ms life In tin humble Kansas rottuare repont- 1 ing: the acta of his early life which made, his B imputation aa a rnnt remarkable spender H How "coal Oil Johnny" acquired his wealth H and how ho e-ot rid of It In no ahurt a porlod H If a chapter of Pennnsylv'anla oil country hlx- H t..ry H was the foster son of a WQIDUI H named McCllntork, who In J owned a farm. H now a prosperous part of Oil City She lived H .n a email log cabin, and when oil wa struck J on her property Ma aallaflw to kf-ep up thia H mod of existence and allow the royalties to H accumulate H "Johnny," her foster son. was 10 yarg old H the morning; hla mother tried to light a fire H Ith C'.ul oil and was fatally burned From H the date of hla foster mother's death Steele H rpi-nt lavishly until It wu all gone. |