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...Oilman Julian, enriched by success in California's Signal Hill Oilfield, organized Julian Petroleum Corp., did much expanding, sold much stock. His ways of selling stock angered bankers. His ways of selling his products angered other companies. In 1924 he was glad to sell out for about $500,000. Three years later the Great Julian Scandal came, made police reserves necessary. Oilman Julian had no connection with the scandal, but it fixed his name in western minds. About a year ago he arrived in Okla homa City, said he would "come back." He proceeded to sell stock in Julian...
...Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, "richest independent operator in the world"; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...