Johnson, Frank B.

Frank B. Johnson, a heavy stockholder in the First National Mining Company died at the Allen rooming house Wednesday evening from heart failure, following a severe attack of pneumonia, which had broken. He was 72 years of age and had a weak heart. It was 7:30 o'clock when he passed away. The doctor had just left him, apparently in cheerful spirits and encouraging signs of improvements. Before he arrived at his office his patient was dead. Deceased came here from Oklahoma City about a year ago, to engage in the mining business. His first investment, in the region of Lincolnville Oklahoma, was unsuccessful, resulting in considerable financial loss, reducing him to the charity of friends for a time, but some of the old spirit dominated him, and he made another try, securing a valuable 40 acres of mineral land on the Buffalo tract, which has become the basis of the First National Mining Company, in which he held $100,000 worth of stock. Deceased was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Wichita Kansas consistory. He had but one living relative, and she an aged sister, residing in Iowa. The Wichita lodge was notified of his death by wire, and asked what disposition of the remains should be made. Funeral arrangements had not been perfected at this writing.