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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-04
GOVERNOR OF SAMARA
KILLED BY A BOMB
Special Correspondence to The Eyen,no
Tlmek.

Times.
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. governor Of this city was in. 9
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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-04
PARLIAMENT A0JOURNS.
Until October SS-The Session Was q
Very Brief One.

Annotated Press Cable to The Evenla4
Times.
London, Aug. 4.-Parliament today
adjourned until October %. The ses-.
sion of the house of lords was very
brief. the peers simply meeting to pass
the appropriation bill and receive the
loyal assent to bills passed befora
adjournment.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-04
STR|kEFA|LURE
Haste of the Call Issued Rus
sian Workmen and Iron
Handed Measures of Govern
ment Causes Confusion.
BUT 10000 MEN
IN THE RANKS TODAY
All Eyes Turned on the Provinces to
Note Attitude of the Masses Upon
Which Success Depends.


Which Success Depends.
A..ociated Pres. Gable to The Evening
Times.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 4.-Probably
not more than 10000 workmen were
out when the general strike went off,
cially into force at noon today. The
rG6naf decision to call the strike was
IN. hastily taken Thursday night and
the police have been so busy putting
fsthe ring leaders behind the bars that
great confusion prevails among the
various organizations which were
scheduled to begin striking at different
places and at different times. There
-aere, the Inauguration of&-tlle. strike
lacks snap and it is evident that its
success will depend upon the temper
of the masses.
The leaders have been more or less
demoralized by the energy displayed
by the government in breaking up the
workmen's organizations and unless
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-04
PLAN HOLY WAR
Semi Independent Vassals Con-
centrating About Southern
Capital of Tangier, Urging
Abdul Hanfod for Sultan.
MOST CRITICAL TIME
IN THIRTY YEARS
Violent Anti-French Agitation Spread.
ing in Interior, Minds Of Turks
Inflamed and Blood Thirsty.
Associated Press Cable to The Eve.ins
Times.

Ae00Gtate0 Press Cable to The EvenlAR
Times.
London, Aug. "A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Tangier pub
1Hshed this afternoon says: Highly
searional reports are being received
may tusing the utmost excitement.
turn winost hourly, comes informa-
! the interior of the rapid
me the violent anti-French agi-
as follc ebels are concentrating their
"Littkontingents around Marakesh,
and wd o, .,,,.., -
!! catchil 'o'" capital anu 'ne'e Is ho
. ~ deat formidable collation. of
e. aependent Yassals has heen.
Fed. They are clamoring for a
oily war and urging viceroy Prince
Abdul-Hanford to proclaim himself
sultan. The situation is more critical
than it has been for thirty years.
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RED GUARD BROKEN,
STRIKE IS OVER
A..ociated Pres. Cable to The Eveni.s

A..ociated Press Cable to The Evenlng
TllneR.
. . o o o o o o o o o o o o o Q . .
. Helsingfors, Finland, Aug. A. o
q The strike of the employees Of o
Q street railroads and factories here o
Q Is over. All leaders Of the social. o
. LIST red guards have been arrested o
9 and the organization has been o
. broken up. o
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02

and every one make 4 night of it with
me. Give Bess bottle of champagne
to start with"
Bess was the beautiful little mare
he rode. and Immediately interest was
conferred on the horse whom her owner
said drank champagne. Bess, more
over. was the only sober one of the
outfit some hours later, for Johnny
steele surely made good when he start
ed out to make night of IT," and this
was one of them.
Nobody who hears my voice can
spend a cent. I'm Johnny Steele"
was the favorite cry OF the little fellow
as he entered resort, and there were
always those within sound who at once
began to figure just how expensive they
could make the hour with Steele. There
is vet to be found the man who will
saw he ever saw Coal Oil Johnny
take a. cent OF change from the bar or
anywhere else, for that matter. Fo.
such as the young fellow was no such
things as dollars or small bills.
Lights Cigars with 500 Bills.
What was considered the height of
his extravaganza came one day when
he entered the Oil Exchange at Brad
ford to look around. He never dabbled
in oil himself. 81 want to see my
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OF minnesota.
Freight Rates.

st. Paul.-The railroad and ware
house commission presented a maxi
mum merchandise tariff to officials OF
Minnesota roads and asked them to
show cause why it should not be
adopted as q basis hereafter.
The proposed tariff is sweeping re-
duction. There is no uniform basis
now for merchandise rates. They are
governed by competitive conditions
The commission took an average OF
the present distributing rates on first
class freight, made for given distances
by seven roads-the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, 500, Great Western,
Milwaukee, Omaha and Minneapolis g.
st. Louis. The proposed tariff makes
general reduction from that
average of s.33 cents, or % per cent on
a fifty-mile haul; 2 &c cents, or 20 per
cent, on a hundred-mile haul; 0S
cents, or 16 % per cent on $50 miles;
70 cents or z per cent, on 200 miles;
Is cents, or 3 per cent, on ESQ miles,
and 69s cents, or 10 per cent on 300
miles.
The railroad officials asked time to
consider the tariff and the hearing
was continued till Feb. 1. At that
time the railroads will either agree to
the rate or present ev.denc, to show
why it should not be enforced The
commission has decided that the re-
duction is reasonable, and it is up to
the traffic officials to prove to them
that it is not.
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swelling at an enormous rate. against
the day when Johnny Steele should be-
come of age and come into his own.
Squanders 500, 1000 in a Day
At last the time came, and an ava
lanche of money rolled down on the
former poor driver, who, in his child
hood days, had never had so much as
quarter to spend. The way in which
ne made the money fly caused even
the oil region, then engaged in its mad
chase for wealth, to sit up and take
notice. There never was spender
like him before and few have initiated
and none equaled him since. His first
draw on what was considered an mex
haustible supply of wealth was $780,
900.
Gimme it in hundred dollar bills,
he said to the cashier of the Oil City
bank, to which he had walked from
his home up Oil creek, at Housewife.
Il want to show some of the boys a
good time"
And "the boys" were shown. JchnDy
Steele started down the street with his
thousand $500 bills, and to every one
he met he presented one of the bills.
Those who hesitated and wanted to
know why got two of the bills. He
had not gone far until some Of those
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81, 900. There were, in addition, ex-
tremely valuable oil properties besides
the McClintock farm which was at this
time belching forth royalties at the
rate of $1,750 day for the McClintock
heir, John Steele
John quit working at once. He never
went back to work after the tragic
death of his foster parent
Yet he couldn't enter into the full
enjoyment of this money, for he was
not of age, and the proper authorities
simply took the immense estate in hand
for the few short months which di-
vided the young wagon driver from his
millions. During this short time Steele
showed some good business Judgment.
There were hundreds who would have
loaned him anything on his prospects,
but to his credit be it said he did not
go heavily into debt. He was content
to wait until the money came to him,
and in the meantime, through the prop
er authorities, he sold an. atom of his
big interests just at the time the oil
boom reached the crest. He disposed
of the two Lone Star wells to John
Mawhinney for $65, 900 cash. This went
into the common pool. which was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
News Notes.

Minneapolis--The German singing
societies of the Twin Cities will hold a
a general rehearsal here Feb. IA.
Red Wing-A business change of con-
siderable Importance to Red Wing an6
a number of cities throughout the
Northwest occurred in the transfer of
the lumber business of the Charles
Betcher Lumber company to other 10.
cal and outside parties.
Duluth-A strike has been declared
by the boiler makers employed at Du-
luth and Superior.
misunderstanding cars, similar to
those run on the Union Pacific railroad,
will be used on the new system to be
built from Biwabik and Hibbing this
year.
st. Paul-The grand executive COM
mittee of the U. c. T. names commit.
tee to work for better hotel inspection
laws.
Minneapolis-Fire broke out in the
residences If S. p. Snider, 1925 Mount
Curve avenue and did about So, 900
damage to the building.
Duluth-It is reported that the Ed
ward Hines Lumber company during
the last week sold $4,000, 900 feet of
lumber, to be sawn at Ashland and
Superior, and Duluth broker has sold
10, 600, 900 feet to Saginaw. The prices
of lumber range from So so to So a
thousand higher than year ago
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02

Philadelphia.-In an unpretentious
house on a little farm near Franklin,
in the northwestern part of Pennsyl-
vania. there died the other day man
who some 40 years ago acquired a
most unique and remarkable distinc-
ton. This person was John w.
Steele, better known as Coal Oil
Johnny" king of all the spendthrifts
the world has ever known.
1t is several years now since this
once famous character had passed out
of sight Of the general public, but the
record he established in the few short
months that he was rolling in wealth
will long be remembered.
Has Wealth Untold.
Inside of IL months, beginning at
the close of 1868, John Steele did per-
haps more to advertise the wealth of
the Pennsylvania oil region than any
other ten men. He advertised its
wealth by spending it. A beardless
boy, he woke one morning to find him.
self possessed of untold wealth in bulk
and an income from oil royalties of
$1,750 per day, Sundays included. He
did not know the value of money, has
not to this day any idea of how much
money he had and spent, but it has
been estimated at from $1,500,O00 to
100000.
Be the amount the first or last
named, the fact remains that in seven
months time from his coming into
possession of this immense wealth he
went through it and was broken. In
side of a year from the time he became
a Croesus, he was back at the little
railroad station at Housewife, Venan-
go county, hustling trunks at $40 a
month. He has been hustling ever
since to keep up with the grocer's bill.
Never was there a man who made it
rain money in such showers as did
Goal Oil Johnny" during his brief
transit across the horizon. 1t is claim
ed that the newly-rich Pittsburg mil
lionaire would look like piker in his
spendings when lined up alongside the
Housewife, Pa, wagon driver who was
in a night elevated to the millionaire
class. The entire cost Of the widely
heralded "Scotty" special last sum-
mer would not have furnished Goal
Oil Johnny's" cigar lighters in those
days of ga. Steele simply couldn't
spend his money fast enough until he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
CAREER OF YOUNG MAN WHO
SQUANDERED MILLIONS WITH
IN SEVEN MONTHS.
A RECORD THAT HAS never Been BEATEN
John w. Steele. Who Acquired a World Wide Reputa-
ton by Throwing Money to the Winds. Dies in
Poverty in Pennsylvania Near Scene of
the Source of His Wealth.

young woman enough to make her in
dependent for life.
Mrs. McClintock was shrewd bust
mes woman and when oil was discov-
cred on her farm she drove the closest
bargains possible with the producers.
The pool under the McClintock farm
babe fair to be ineXhaustible and she
had little troubel in getting an almost
fabulous sum in cash, reServing a big
royalty on all oil brought from her
farm. This was about three years
after the death of McClintock.
But John Steele was not allowed to
loaf because his foster mother then
had money. He was sent out to work
at driving wagons for the oil men. He
did not even have team of his own,
but hired out as driver, and each
Saturday night his earnings were
brought home and given to Mrs. Nc
CIintock, who dumped them into the
common hoard at the old farmhouse.
She rapidly accumulated bank stocks
and valuable properties in surrounding
towns and cities as we'll as in New
York and Philadelphia. But she never
changed the close, penurious style of
living to which she and her husband
had been forced when they were trying
to pay for the rocky farm on the little
run which afterwards became world
famed as Oil creek.
Explosion Brings Millions.
She never hired a servant and never
moved from the little farmhouse, which
soon became hemmed in by oil wells.
Always insisting on doing her own
Homework, she came to her death in a
most tragic way, while performing
house duties. Early in 1863 Mrs. Nc
Clintock rose one morning before day
break, as usual, to prepare breakfast
for John Steele before he went out
with his wagon. She made the last sad
mistake of trying to light the fire with
can of coal oil with the oft-repeated
result. There was an explosion and
she was burned to death.
In an old and crude safe in the cor
ner of one room in the little house there
was found 5000 in gold. Subsequent
discovery proved this was the savings
OF Mrs. McClintock for only week or
so. The exact amount of cash on hand
at the death of Mrs. McClintock was
never definitely known, but is sup
posed to have been far more than
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
LOUIS PHILIPPE'S FALL.
in tae French Capital
When the Monarch Was
Deposed.

One morning toward the end of
February, 1S48, 1 sat quietly in my
attic chamber working hard at my
tragedy of Ulrich Won Hutton, relates
a writer in McClure's, when suddenly
a friend rushed breathlessly into the
room, exclaiming: What, you sit
ting here! Do you not know what
has happened?" mo, what?" THE
French have driven away Louis Phil
ippe and proclaimed a republic"
| threw down my pen-and that
was the end of my Ulrich Won Hutton.
| never touched the manuscript again.
We tore down the stairs into the
street to the market square, the ac-
customed meeting place for all the
student societies after their midday
dinner. Although it was still fore
noon, the marke. was already crowd
There was no shouting, no noise, only
agitated conversation. What did we
want there? This probably no one
knew. But since the French had
driven away Louis Philippe and pro-
claimed the republic, something, of
course, must happen here, too. Some
of the students had brought their
rapiers along, as if it were necessary
at once to make an attack or to de-
fend ourselves. We were dominated
by a vague feeling that great out
break of elemental forces had begun,
as if an earthquake was impending of
which we had felt the first shock, and
we instinctively crowded together,
Thus we wandered about in numerous
bands to the "Kneipe," where our
restlessness, however, would not suf-
fer us long to stay; then to other
pleasure resorts, where we fell into
conversation with all manner of
strangers, to find in them the same
confused, astonished and expectant
state of mind; then back to the mar
ket square, to see what might be going
on there; then again somewhere else,
and so on, without aim and end, until
finally late in the night fatigue com.
PEELED us to find the way home.
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Accidents.

St. Paul report of the state labor
department shows that during the last
three months of 1905, 1S5 accidents
were reported by factories in the state.
This number was almost exactly evenly
divided among the three months. Some
accidents were fatal. OF the accidents
reported more were finger hurts than
any other kind. Railroad shops had
the most accidents, and sawmills came
next
As to ages. there were 81 under 90
years of age, 33 from 30 to 25, 81 from
25 TO 80, 16 from 80 to 55, Is from IS to
40, 10 from 40 to IS, Il from As to so, 6
from SO to IS, from SIS to 80. one over
80, and 81 whose ages were not given.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
Will Open State Fair.

Hamline. The keynote for the Min
nesota state fair of 1906 was struck by
the board Of managers when it invited
James j. Hill to make the address
opening the fair and defeating the
grand new live stock amphitheater.
Mr.. Hill accepted and will speak on
some subject appropriate 10 the occa-
sion-which will be, perhaps, the most
significant in the history of the devel.
opment of agriculture in the North
west.
The opening of the amphitheater
will be a great event 1t is the larg.
est amphitheater in the country and
emphasizes most emphatically the i'm
portance of the Minnesota state
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
Deer Eat Hay.

Crookstou.-Deera are so numerous in
the north country that settlers on the
reservation south of Red lake are seri-
ously considering an appeal to the
state game warden to protect them
from the ravages caused by the ami
mails. Andy Higgins, homesteader
from that vicinity, says that the deer
are eating the farmers hay; that he
saw eight together on one day sur.
runding hay stack. He believes that
Game Warder Fullerton should send a
deputy to that section next fall to cut
hay for the deer SO that they will let
the settlers crop alone. He says the
settlers are getting out of patience and
are liable to violate the game laws if
something is not done.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02

who had for months been waiting for
stopped his indiscriminate giving
they wanted it themselves.
The history of that day will long be
remembered in Oil CITY. 1t was not
yet dark when young Steele borrowed
few thousands to continue the days
spending To Steele, with his new mil
lions, borrowing was the easiest of
things. In his later years he would
have had trouble in borrowing any
thing, for his financial star had long
since set.
Downfall Laid to Gamblers.
One of those who early attached
himself to young Steele in the hour of
his wealth was Seth Slocum, a gam
bier, and to the work of Slocum friends
of Steele attribute his downfall. 1t was
not long until Goal Oil Johnny" as
he was now known, was the biggest
plunger of them all at the gaming ia
BILE. He seldom won and when he did
he would almost invariably toss his
winnings to the dealer or some by
stander, saying:
Buy yourself a new hat and have
a drink on Johnny Steele"
But the ordinary roulette wheel or
the faro deal was 90 slow for Goal
Oil Johnny" He wanted action, and
wanted it in punches. He seldom if
ever played poker. There's too much
time lost dealing and drawing cards. -
he used to say, when pressed to sit in
game. cts too slow; it's an old
ladies' game"
One of the favorite stunts of Goal
Oil Johnny" was to walk into a gam
bling room with few of his choice
friends and ask the proprietor to sell
him the place. He usually bought at
fearful figure, and then would take
his place at the dealers chair and loan
his friends money to play against him.
self. He didn't know much about deal
ing faro, could scarcely tell whether
a card won or lost for the house, and
so this was the easiest of picking for
the sharks who had associated them
selves with the little king of spend
thriftS.
The news soon spread throughout
the world of this modern lad of money
and that he was easy. From the north,
south and east and from the gold
camps of California came gamblers
with the old brace games for fleeing
Johnny Steele. For him, tits now said,
specially crooked faro boxes and rou-
lette wheels were made, for he did not
long remain in ignorance of the games
and the time came when he had to be
shown that he losL on a turn of the
card. He was always shown. His
losings at the gaming table in the first
half of his moneyed career were some
thing fabulous. Then he seemed to
tire all at once of the game and sought
new fields for enjoyment.
Horse That Drank Champagne.
One night at Bradford, Steele rode
down the main street at full speed on
beautiful mare, for which he had
paid $4,000, and through the swinging
doors of saloon where 100 oil men
were doing their best to emulate him
in getting rid of their money. He did
not know soul, but that didn't mat
Ter.
I'm Johnny Steele. Close the doors
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evolved the idea of hiring people to
help him, and then-well, the rest was
easy. .'...
Adopted by Farmer.
John Steele was born near Waterloo,
Venango county, Pa, in the fall of
1S41 He was left an orphan when but
a few years of age and when between
seven and eight years of age was
adopted by Culbertson McClintock, a
well-to-do farmer living on the out
skirts of what is now Oil City. McClin-
took owned his own farm, since famed
in oil history as "The McClintock
Farm From it millions of dollars
worth of oil was taken years later.
1t was not for Culbertson McClin-
took, however, to reap the benefits of
the oil. He died some three years
before oil was discovered on his place,
and when his will was read it was
found that he had left the farm to his
wife during her life, and it was then
to go to John Steele, his adopted son.
There was also an adopted daughter,
named Emily Scott, but she does not
appear to have been left anything by
McClintock. Years later, when Steele
was rolling in wealth, he gave to the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-02
Narrow Escape.

Virginia a cavern of quicksand
at the Lincoln mine, which had been
timbered up, Polka Nichni, miner,
was buried twenty feet deep, from s
o'clock in the evening to in the
morning, aud then was rescued alive
A large boulder, weighing several
tons, together with some of the tim
bers, fell in such a way that small
cavity was left about the upper part Of
Nichni's chest and head, the rest of his
body being held by the dirt as firmly
as by wise. The rescuing party of
ten men worked like Trojins, on ff-
teen minute shifts, there being room
for only two men to work at time.
When Nichni was reached, the candles
of the men nearest him were exiting
uished, the air having become exhaust
ed to such a degree. Nichi is hospi-
tai and will recover.