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...there any fraud or bribery in the making of the leases? The evidence indicates as regards Naval Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills, Calif.), Mr. Doheny lent Mr. Fall $100,000 about one year before the final contract with the Doheny interests was drawn (TIME, Feb. 4). As regards Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), Mr. Sinclair lent Mr. Fall $25,000 and employed him some two years after the Reserve was leased to Mr. Sinclair, and three or four months after Mr. Fall had left the Cabinet...
Sept. 2, 1912, President Taft created Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills, Calif., containing 38,969 acres...
Died. A. C. ("Uncle Billy") Hildreth, 100, "oldest B. P. O. Elk in the world," Civil War veteran and Indian scout, at Ouray, Colo...
...Beta Kappas, according to a communication to a New York paper, have a new worry. A member of this well known organization, while driving in New York City with his brother, an Elk, was hauled up short for speeding. The policeman, spotting with satisfaction at present Key, launched himself upon a situperous lecture concerning college "Smart Alecs" who cared for no one's life but their own, and was on the point of handing out a summons when the Elk button on the second chap caught his eye. To the joy and amazement, of the motorists the atmosphere changed...
...Fogg Museum, and other college buildings. Among these paintings is one by Blackburn, the Colonial artist, of Johannes Lowell, a former Fellow and benefactor of the University, several portraits of other prominent graduates and officers, and a work by Felix Ziem of a view in Venice. The stag and elk heads and athletic trophies will, of course, be kept in the room...