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Show JANUARY THE SALT' LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, Coal Oil Johnny Steele Succumbs to Pneumonia; .Enjoyed Unusual Career bt Aii , Special la The Tribune. an. IT. SPINK. Vary raw paid , . v hotel thrown open wide and ha invited all who cared to enter and partake of hia hospitality. brass band Employing a colored butwhich he clothed in Coal OH tons, he made them play Hi earlier and Was that Name," Johnny Charlie, composition of "Champagne until half the town turned out and entered it solemn protest against the noise. . tha Associated Press CHICAGO, thattocame from Port Croon, the Other day announclht the death there from pneumonia of John W. Steele. Fifty years ego, however. those few lines would have created a sensation, for In that far day Steele was known the world over Sa Coal Oil Johnny. ' Steel fort tt that time vu going Did Not Fear. Poverty. around the country throwing away Soon of Philadelphia.' Steele set money, buying champagne for all who out newtiring worlds to conquer and his first would drink, playing . the races or inv old game and doing his best to make aU stop was at Saratoga. hands happy. That spa waa then a veritable gam- 18, 1921. s X - ' , - N. Come On, Men! tonger! Wait-N-o , BEGINNING TODAY-- - brass-braid- When an orphan f years old Bteele adopted fy CUlbertnon McClintock, a, wealthy farmer of Venango county, and through his fester parent came Into the big farm that later proved one of -- the richest of oil properties In western -.Pennsylvania. He tired of wealth from the ground, sold out,"taking and -with half a million dollars started a career of mad spending While much of his money was literally thrown away, a tidy aum went to charitable organU aatlone. Starting out with hie Hollars. Steele went flret to Pittsburg, Where ha Boon established hie reputation as the great est "sport" in America, On hts arrival In Pittsburg Steele .theater where the Skiff and "? 0 TIavford mlnslrele were playing, threw dollar bills at the performere and kept that up until ho was ordered but of the theater. Angry at that he went around to the hotel VrherO the mlnstrele were Staying and gffered to buy tha combination at any old price. A trade was made I and. Steele Came into full possession o' i the show. Hiring a special train, Steele shipped the entire minstrel company direct to Philadelphia, where he ssljr he would start them out right. Arriving at Philadelphia he not otily reclothed the Skiff and Qaylortr ehter-prlsfamous gave It from Klemm Market street store the finest possible orchestral outfit, but he bought a locomotive, baggage .car and two sleeping care to make It thd first of traveling - shows with such art When equipment. the organisation started on Its career of sumptuous travel At was . estimated that. Steel had spent !00,000 in less than two months. W e; i P71o i ' ilippie bling palae on wheels and John Morrissey, the famous prise fighter and congressman, was at the head of its affairs At Saratoga, where Johnny gambled while the minstrels played, arid where Morrissey took 610.000 from pirn In on sitting, an old man came up to him, and laying his hand on his shoulder, said. Do not forget the words of' Frank II n : Always taking out of the meal tub and never putting In soon comes to the bottom. Whereas SteMb lose up and said. "Gentlemen, under the new tease of my oil well I am getting 650.000 a week, and If you hihk have gotten to the bottom of the tub, there le a roll of Drink it up, Let me tell you, on mlks-In and ell, rhatLppC hauled. n Venango county, and if the worst come to the worst Ill haul it again, a saying which was propheti om Saratoga, Bteele and hia com-- 1 went to Utica, where the minerals at hie expense went an a two reeks carouse. From Utica the way to far-oChicago was dotted all the way along by .these excesses. At Chicago, when hs beard that the splendid Crosby opera house, then the j finest In America, could not be leased j for a minstrel show, he drove up In slate to Its front door and planted down a roll of 6200,000 before the owner, Wheh the money was refuted he asked: Will you lease It for a benefit?" "No," was tha answer, "but I wilt . give It." 0 f, m X $10.-00- 0. N- W - v fAV j i ksaJ All of TIPPIES Special $35.00 ff . ta ca GarmenUAll Originally Priced $10 to $25 Below All Competition NOW A Johnny Cornea to Earth. All meteors, astronomers tav, even tually find theiearth - Coal Oil Johnny 18677 hit the ground in In three year he had squandered mill Iona and whert Recklessness. he least expected It, the oil stopped run-- b But betides fitting up tb. show gr-i log At--. JbV .old sircam - feed gepusiy in Philadaiphla, Steele did many dried up. When ha had no mors money and hit other strange things In that town. Happening to - meet Cool Burgess, the credit was, exbauated, the star of hit minstrel troupe, on the street dropped off like gnats from a parasites bloodless one dayand noticing that Jha minstrel - which in650,000 the but from Him, sort bank any she deposited tt failed. of a pin, he eald: "YSu want eomethlng In that scarf," But by the sale of some, Jewels he and taking Cool into Kelly Jewelry bad sent her she managed to own a modest little home. But Bteele did not, pssa in Philadelphia he said, "Cnoote. Burgess mas not so weak but that he like the prodigal of old. immediately reiuld chocs a 11600 diamond. A crowd turn. Like one awakening from a deof men followed the pair from there bauch, there wa a memory that at times Into-- a Ninth street Saloon. and places he had left money In packages AU tha champagne you matt can drink for safe keeping. He began to retrace out of your hata," shouted Bteele to the hia steps. crowd end when "they had drunk but of - At Oil City he discovered a trunkfut and battered tha tiles he marched thorp Of old clothes and In the poekets $6000 into Oxford's then Philadelphia's leading On his return he stopped at Wilkes-Barr- e end learned of an unclaimed packhatter, and dressed their heads anew In tall hats at 620 per. Being caught age at one of the banks there He preon Arch street In tha rain ha spied a sented himself, was ident'led and put , into possession of it. It contained $10, cab ' Taka me to tha Girard,", aatd ha to 000. He had never remembered tt: Now he eould make peace with hie the driver. wife and the kinging for his little sort "This cabs ejfagd,' eras the reply. "Is it engaged nowT" asked Bteele, seized him. But first he would test him6100 self as a freight handler at Oil City, Into bill a tha driver's shoving and by gradual approaches the mark of hand. Shamefacedness said Cabman reached his wife. "I think not,"' ks be tha took - the generous fee. . N , . ' And what became of him? his minstrel When Bteele brought Askith people of Fort Crook, Neb., troupc lo the Girard, lh flneat hotel In to which place -hq 1 afterward moved his PMisddphtaf tha- - proprietor araa--. at first reunited famttyrWould anyone suspect that thi old unwilling to house them. But when Bteele offered to rent the farmer, enjoying the respect of his neighhotel, outright for a period of ten days bors, was ever 'that veritable fool of fortune Coal OH Johnny?" Bub thats the proprietor wilted. Then Steel, ordered the doors of the Just who It waa - Fuhher ' i ' 1 IK p if X-- - - ,f'j Lzn !:X2i f'N , - ' r 7 d ' ' . it ,3 i j; ' v a Vv 'V t' n - I tj1 44 Hu. V ? r . .vi l V Full Dres Suits Included Originally Sold Special at $45.00 NOW - w control; Mark Bessant, secretary-treasure- r; Earl Anderson, assistant manager. A finance committee was appointed, Millrose A. A. and this group will confer with the Commercial club With a view to financing NEW YORK, Jan, 17. Joi Ray of the the baseball team, Prospects point to an excellent team for American Fork Illinois A. C., Chicago natiopal this year. champion, has entered the mile and a half race for the Rodman Wgnamaker S 135 trophy at the MUlrosa A. A. games at Possible 150 Madison Square Garden, Feb, 6. He has Traps won tho event for the last four years N. C. Jan. 17.8am PINEHURST, Sharman, representing Balt IAka City In tha flret days shooting of the annual May t Meet midwinter tournament at , trapshooting finished with a total Of 136. BOSTON, Jan. 1?. A taat of Canadian Plnehurst, N. Hoel of Nashville and Tracy John and American football by representative Lewis of New York led a field of HO college teams may be had next tall as a each breaking H6 out of the flret result of negotiations between McGill uni- guns, 150 race at sixof Montreal and Boston college. teen targets In the versity yards. The McGill authorities have Invited the Boston eleven to go north for a game, 6HFELEY TO LEAD MARQUETTE. and tha matter Is under consideration. Tha Canadians play twelve men to a whs., jan. 17. wiuiam Milwaukee, t team,-buwith the exception of the forSheeley, quarterback, was chosen capfollowa of tain the Marquette university 1921 ward pass closely the American football team tonight. game of football. The schedule announced for 1931 In2 cludes a game on October with Creighton unlxerslty at Omaha. V TIPPIES Choicest Suit and Overcoat r & Joie Ray to Enter Garnet at Again v one-mi- le harm an Breaks of Canadian and American Grid Teamt Out at , vi ' v VP American Fork Baseball Officers Are Selected 4 i 450-tar- JjkiC' , f $ t , , ' Readjusting Stocks to Meet the New Price Conditions Is the Reason for Such Drastic VANDERBILT STABLE COMING. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. A large part noted French racing stable of William K. Vanderbilt will be to America this year, A. K, the California horseman, anday, The following were choaen. to pilot nounced her today. Mr. Macomber acthe local diamond team: Jesse M. quired the Stable last September at a Walker, manager; John Hunter, board of price reported at about $1,000,000. , The Tribune. of the Sped! AMERICAN FORK, Jan. I?. Officers Die, late of the American Fork baseball olub were brought elected at a meeting In the city ball to- Price-Wrecki- i t - Its no time for holding off. The store that does will suffer a multiplied action about TIPPIE we. do not desire to risk. No he gets behind stocks with .both shoulders tearing into pricei regardless of basil for ipring. Remember this ,ts hot a sale of odds and enda, but a great half-hearte- after-effe- the big LOSS. weeping itore-wid- e Glad to take a loss now to get etocka on the sale of right d ' All Suits and Overcoats in Stock at Away Below Wholesale. Cost' , RIP VAN WINKLE And ng tha 0 , A , Your ..unreserved and unrestricted choioe at $18.30 and $28.60. nationally advertised makes, the seasons best stylos at only MYSTERIOUS BOWLERS 4Y ..ITS AN OPPORTUNITY, MEN, such as only TIPPIE can offer ' a fractional part of cost. your pick of the ; Were they ghost whom Rip Van Winkle, saw up there in the mountains playing at tenpinM At an rate the stofy illustrates the enormous pop- ularity of bowling at the time of the colonisation of ea New York by the Dutch. Howling is an old, old game yet ever .NEW. ideal game for business men.,' is an It Try a. game here today. ts Orpheiinf; Bowling. Alleys 4 13 West Second South. "Good players are good workers. Ctl?PLCCn CLIFT ,yjpiu,y jtsttintasrsgirxxiuxims-AJtau- CLDC. 'S5SK? M Mauzwic J o1" S n h siRj'Sn Ar.r . Tt 'w X J |