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This first venture, at Kiowa, was lucky. It netted Sinclair $100,000, a nice sum but nothing in comparison to what was coming. By 1909 with luck and judgment he made a million buying, developing and reselling oil lands. Independent, working mostly alone he continued on this line until 1926 when he consolidated seven small companies into Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. The company grew and prospered apace. Fleets of tankers roamed the seas carrying the name Sinclair. This alert, grinning, hard-headed man's influence was felt in Moscow, Lisbon, Africa, while his company became integrated, rivalled some Standard...
...exciting buffalo hunt next November with cowboys yippee-ing, Kiowa Indians hiyah-ing, and rich Eastern sportsmen shooting from the saddle was talked about in Texas last week. The killers were to pay from $250 to $400 per buffalo, according to size and trophy value...
...Hardtner, just across the Kansas line, lived two farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right...
...saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some time...
Died. I-See-O (meaning "Plenty Fires"), 75 or 80, last of the Kiowa Indian scouts, only sergeant in the U. S. regular army holding his position for life* of pneumonia; at Fort Sill, Okla...