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Died, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Phillips, 70, famed Princeton geologist, onetime (1911-16) mayor of Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna...
Even before Ochsner died the legal battle had begun in a desultory skirmish the luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping...
...Moreover, the embattled wives by this time were being flanked by an outsider. It looked as if the entire kitty might be snatched by one of Ochsner's old partners, Frank C. ("Pat") Daugherty, a big, breezy Pasadena oilman who had been properly done in by the vague geologist...
...practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking at Daugherty's papers-but the land office found them so irregular that the application was refused. After that Ochsner came to an understanding with Daugherty, though the geologist never got to the point of signing his name. And once while Daugherty was away on a trip, Ochsner sold the claims, which eventually wound up with General Petroleum. Of course, Ochsner retained the royalty rights. These were shuttled around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties...
...geologist named Frederick Gardner Clapp who was at one time "oil adviser" to the Persian Government...