Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1918, Page 4

TITLES TO MAVERIGK SPRINGS OIL LAND CONTESTED BY GROUP UF LOCATORS WHO GLAIM RIGHT e.: WEDNESDAY, Ex-Governor Chatterton Heads Suit to Oust Con- cerns Who Purchased Leases at Government Auction and Developed Holdings The Maverick Springs field is in litigation, the suit that is causing trouble was brot in Cheyenne by a number of locators | Kinney who claim to have located the territory before the present ope- Mer rators bot their leases at the auction at Fort Washakie last fall. |M The suit is an endeavor to oust the Carter, Ohio, Sheridan Mi Wyoming and other firms who have drilled the discovery wells Mid in the field and have borne all the expenses of developing the territory. Ex-Governor Fenimore Chatterton is one of the prime movers in the suit and also one of the locators. There are 11 others. The government took over the land in 1906 from the Indians and opened it for entry. It also sold a number of oil and gas leases and among the buyers were the Ohio Oil company, the Sheridan Wyoming Oil company, and the Carter Oil company. These three firms have been the most for- ward in the developing of the coun- try, the Carter Oil company for in- stanee, starting last winter to move yin material and equipment for their work, COL. ROOSEVELT WRITES LETTER OF CINDOLENCE Capy of a letter of condolence from former President Roosevelt to Mrs. J. W. Crabbe, of Cheyenne, mother of Supt. F. L. Crabbe of the KEEP CLEAN OF POLITICS IS EDICT TO RAILROADERS Director General McAdoo has or- dered all railroad men, officials and employes alike, to keep out of poli- tics. Coming. state and federal elec- tions, as well as the primary contests, the director general said, make it im- perative that the conduct of all should be scrupulously guarded that there can bé no charge of railroad influence. Pointing out what the railroads were under private management it was common report that their par- ticipation in politics was widespread. Mr. McAdoo said under government control there are no longer private interests to serve. “Under government control,” s the announcement, “there is no i ducement to officers and employes to ‘engage in politics. On the contrar. they owe a high duty to the publi Wyoming Anti-Saloon league, will be | scrupulously to abstain therefrom.” read with interest. On receipt of the} news of the death France of Earle, a brother of the Wyoming man, Roosevelt wrote the grief stricken mother as follows: “August 30, 1918. —“M >-Beur ‘Mrs. Crabbe: “T have just heard of the loss of| your gallant son. I have read the let- ter of Lieutenant Mos in which the news was contained. It was a fine letter, and no human being could wish to have a better memorial than | that letter gives your son. I extend to you my de sympathy. My own soh who was killed was about the same age as your own son. You and I are old; death is the common lot; and when people of our age die we are not to be mourned. But it is very hard when the young go, and then the greatest of all comforts is the thought that they lived nobly and | socurity Loan Co:, Room 4 Kimball | nois ha died nobly for a great ideal. “Faithfully yours, “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “Mrs. J. W. Crabbe, “London, Ohio.”’ ees He List your property with us. The Security Loan Company, Kimball Bldg. 9-11-tf co + sO - ? + iM ° % e $ ks 3, 3, ‘ sé - RO ? Me ae oe, Me + RK? 1M a? ++, K? ? K? a a> % so-ageet RK ore, Membership on a local school or park board will not be construed a political office. eee a Gas 25c per gallon. Casper Motor Co. 9-11-1t 2,000 LIMITED SERVICE DRAFT IS AUTHORIZED. [By Associated Press.] WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-—A call for 2,000 qualified limited service men was issued today. They will ex- train September 23 from all states, |the District of Columbia included. Money to loan on everything. The Bldg. 9-11-tf —————_»—____— s. J. F. O’Donnell, wife of Lieu- tenant O’Donnell, a former Cas- per physician, left today for New York City to join her husband who is now stationed at the Rockefeller Room 4,/ Institute after a few weeks training Security Loan Company, Room 4, at Camp Beauregurd. + Pocte ste ste c% Hote ete she OM Me re see ne io So tiotico Sooo tre di % fo-obe she eho cto ete eho ote cto-ste sfecteate ste ste ate ato-sie so she she she she steele se eloate sho eoatoge ones TUMULTY TRIES IN HAYS’ CASE [By United Press2 WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-—Secre- tary Tumulty wrote Republican Na- tional Chairman Hays today to learn | if Hays was correctly quoted as i} \charging that Democratic leaders | would end the war with a compro- PROSPECT § 10 mise to insure their political for- > ° ‘|. 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Wind River Pet._ 19 .20 | Washington southwestward to Colo-| LIQUOR AND DRUG ADDICTIONS rado. ‘ |cured by a scientific course of medi. This theory in the report is upheld| cation. The only place in Colorado by a continental upheaval which cre-| where the Genuine Keeley Remedies ated the present structures which, ——. (0 BARREL WELL BOOMS hold oil and in the east the recent PROSPEGTS LINCOLN GO, sixkes.c,, Birminenam, Ale and points evolved that the two great) | belts turn when when they reach al The southwest corner of the state| point near the center of the continent | is looking up again. The recent) and their trend is then southerly and ik e a wi b at an opposite angle from that which | ass . strike of the Cretaceous will do about ihe belt Se an ithe nore. Raine nation; no 10 barrels according to reports and! stance the Applachian belt runs| Bonds delay, imme- several other wells are going down southwest to Tennessee and then ac-| : diate settle- on structures in that vicinity. |cording to the report, swings off to! Wanted; will ° buy for cash; Liberty any issue, any denomi- 3 8 i | ee t. The Bear River Oil and Develop-|the Atlantic coast thru Alabama and | men! \ment Company have started drilling Georgia, taking in a part of Florida. | SECURITY LOAN CO. . In the Northwest territory,. the + jclose to the line between Idaho and/4i) helt starts in Washington and | 4 Kimball Bldg. Phone 702 Wyoming at the little town of Sage|runs southeast to Colorado where it] and the Allied Oi] Company are/ajso turns like the Applachian belt} again at work in the La Barge field.|and runs southwestward thru Okla- In the Dry Piney fi the Lincoln-|homa, Texas and New Mexico. | Idaho will resume drilling this week) The reports of Professor Lawrie. after setting casing to shut off gas)chairman of the Oregon Bureau of pressure. Mines and the Geological Commission \|has brought the northwest part of the belt into the limelight and Califor- nia firms are starting tests in Coos | and Currie Counties of Oregon on th 7-POUND TROUT ' IS LA NDED BY A istrength of same. To the southwest DINED ATE MAN teu dernier sence tee jand then thru Montana and Wyoming | the development has reached its high- st point or will do so secon. 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