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Show FORTUNE SMILES ! AS DEATH Willi R. M. Johnson, on Eve of Becom)' ing Ailluent, Passes Into ll' Great Beyond. y I HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS HIS ESTATE' f' i'ill' : i Distinguished Career of OldU Newspaper and Mining " Man Is Ended. 11 , iffl Upon the evo .of receiving a sum of-' money estimated at 125.000 for mining properly that hadx been In litigation for' years. R. M. Johnson, 7C years old, wa'sf IjjflO found dead In his bed at tho .Halls hotels, State and Third South streets, about lo': $00 o'clock Tuesday nlsht. Death was duei lo heart trouble. Mr. Johnson's two sons in Chicago, will inherit the fortune. 'j Long ago, when both wero youths nndf i blood coursed hotly through their vclnnv r R. M. Johnson, later a familiar flguri pl upon tho streets of Salt Lako for yoantf fcjft and his brother quarreled In thlr 110111 In Chicago. The latter camo West amji staked out mining claims in Nevada, near! ust the dividing lino between that Stato &rAAA Utah. To work the claims Johnson got' assistance from the Charles A. Shorter t'; family of this city, with the tacit under-t . standing, at least, that at his death tho' r bulk of the property was to go to tho; ilfa Shorts, it is told. When Johnson lay,- 'l. down to die, however, he relented and? sent for his brother in tho East. On the' deathbed n reconciliation was effectod he- nt tween tho long-estranged brothers, and' 1 the mining property of tho dying manj ef was deeded to Hi M. Johnson. Begins Long Litigation. $ Disputes ensued over the property, It! a appears, nnd mot, If not all, went to. 3 the Short-Elliott Interests, because as-! iV scssmcnt work on tho claims was not !i done. Johnson was offered 525,000 for his contested Interest in the Jennie Gold sr. Mlno company, but refused the offer, feci- fJ Ing it was not big enough. He then brought suit In southwestern Utah, hut jfil was defeated. He appealed the caBe, and( tho litigation was on when a settlement! j., was reached by the consummation of aj deal, Tuesday, whereby Johnson was to rccolve, It Is said, $125,000 in install- W monta, within tho next ten days, for IiIbjI interest. 1 Mr. Johnson received tho word of tho t settlement by telephone at the hotel a Tuesday afternoon and appeared muo"f elated. As ho wo3 not feeling well, how-V-ever, he went to his room oarly "When ? his physician called upon him about 10 15 o'clock that evening to see how he was fa gotting along, ho found his llfcloae body, tf shrouded In night clothes, in his bed, l Mr. Johnson was graduated from In- dlana university in the T0s, and later & was an editorial writer for a Chicago newspaper. Ho leaves two sons in Chi- A cago who are prominent. One has been "J connected with the Immense Marshall eP Field establishment for twenty years, tf. while the other Is employed with the Dix a on Lead Pencil company. Horace IE V Johnson, the latter, will bo here Friday to ' return with the body to Chicago for ? burial. a!I; Mr. Johnson also was interested in ths'lf-!: Snowilako mining property at Fay, Xe',vLi |
