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...about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well, I guess there...
...Coolidge. Three weeks ago, a Republican committee at Cheyenne, Wyo., adopted a resolution setting forth that Calvin Coolidge had advanced the U. S. materially, intellectually, morally; that he had been "a factor for good" internationally; that his wisdom and beneficence should not be interrupted and that, therefore, Calvin Coolidge was requested "to waive his personal preference and consent to continue...
Died. Anthony Rousch Mills, 77, potent westerner; at Sundance, Wyo. "Thirty years back," Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...
...Gillette, Wyo., as at Minturn and elsewhere in the region, the coal deposits are on or near the earth's surface. A few country mines are operating. Ranchers have long scraped what they needed for household fires from outcroppings in bluffs and streambeds. Large-scale production can be accomplished by "stripping" the seams from above. Tunnelling will seldom be necessary...
...County, Wyo., Out of the criminal suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, to see if Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Cabinet man, and Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, were criminals or not, came more suspicion, much confusion, a mistrial...