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SOME INTERESTING DKTAU.S ON LEASING TEAPOT DOME
Th<> following article on the oil monopoly in Washington is from the
ten of Senator Robert LaFollette and our purpose fof printin this article
s to acquaint our readers with the foots of the Teapot Dome oil scandal
vhieh is now under investigation in the Senate at Washington. D. C.
This article was printed over the signature of Robert LaFollette, a
Jnited States Senator, and is without a doubt authentic information, partly
aken from disclosures made in the oil scandal investigation and from
vhat was taking place before the investigation was launched.
The article is herewith published verbatim as follows:
Nowhere has the rapacity with which monopoly raids the country's
intural resources been more shockingly demonstrated than in the seizure
>f the naval oil reserves, which has recently been the subject of investi
ration before the Senate Committee on Public Lands.
The scandal revealed in the BaHInger-Pinchot controversy, which
vrecked the Tart administration and contributed to the defeat of the
-tepublican party, in 1912. was insignificant beside this transaction, in
jvhich the future security of the nation has been gambled in order that
i rich public property might be turned over to the petroleum monopoly
'or exploitation.
The story of the naval oil reserves is a vivid history of the unscrup
«lous methods which monopoly employs in attaining its ends. Admiral
Dewey was one of those who foresaw that the battleships of the future
.vould use oil Tor fuel, and a policy of setting aside ample reserve stores
was adopted following his recommendations. While other great na
tions were compelled to play a desperate same of diplomacy to obtain
ulaquate reserves, our own Government found itself the fortunate pon
<e*sor of vast oil reserves in the public domain.
This oil belonged to the people. It was their property to use as
hey saw fit. It. would have been as uspful to a government owned merch
ant fleet in time of peace as to the Navy in time of war. The wisdom of
conserving it for some future emergency must be conceded. Tha.1 those
interests and individuals most active In demanding "preparedness” for
war and in promoting a foreign policy which leads to war should have
permitted the looting of these reserve* seems almost unbelievable, but
the record now In the making at Washington leads to but one conclusion.
In 1912 President Taft withdrew from public entry 38,969 acres of
oil bearing Government land at Elk Hills. Cal., and placed it under the
jurisdiction and control of the Navy Department ns Re-serve No. 1. In
the same year he took similar action with respect to 29.341 acres at
Buena Vista, Cal. This was designated Reserve No. 2.
Subsequently the existence of a rich oil deposit in the Teapot Dome,
at the south end of the Salt Creek field in Wyoming, was confirmed. It
contained 9.481 acres, also Government land, and in 1915 President Wil
son set this aside as Naval Reserve No. 3. It was estimated to contain
a minimum of 30.000,000 barrels of oil. and geologists pronounced it
one of the finest undeveloped fields in the world.
At various times there were mysterious hints of attempts at on
eroashment upon the naval reserves by private interests.—and some at
tempts were unconcealed. It is to the credit of former Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels that he guarded the reserves jealousy, not only
against encroachment in the field, but from attempts to slide cleerly
masked clauses into bills pending before Congress—clauses that would
have thrown these reserves open to exploitation.
Today every single one of the naval oil reserves set aside under the
Taft and Wilson administrations for future emergency is being worked by
commercial oil companies, and the thing that Josephus Daniels said would
render the warships of the American navy “as useless as painted ships on
a painted ocean” is an accomplished fact. This violent reversal of an
established policy, and its shameful consequences, have occurred since the
present administration took office in 1921. and chiefly through the in
strumentality of Secretary of the Interior Fall.
First, control of the reserves was transferred from the Navy Depart
ment to the Department of the Interior. Secretary of the Navy Denby
not only acquiesced in this raid upon his department, but. by his own
testimony, actively seconded it. He has admitted before the Senate com
mittee that he signed papers making the transfer without understanding
tlieir contents, and he has further confessed that he did not ask the
advice of either the Naval Board or the Council of Bureau Chiefs, before
taking the step, although they are charged with the duty of maintaining
the national defense at sea. The only naval officers who were asked
about the transfer protested violently against it, and their devotion to duty
resulted in the transfer of several of them to other posts.
Once Secretary Fall had control of the reserves he proceeded to turn
them over to the greedy monopoly that was eager to exploit them.
Claims which had been made upon porliou-t of Reserve No. 2 by the
Honolulu Oil Co. and which, under the preceding administration, had b.jen
disallowed as “having .not a shadow of justification,” were reopened by
Seen*..-ary Fall and allowed. A judgment in a lower court in favor of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, which claimed another part of the reserve
was pc un it ted to stand without au appeal, and the remainder of the re
«efve wag released to other companies. Thus No. i passed ont ol
existence.
Similarly, the Standard Oil C#. had laid claim to a part of Reserve
No. 1, and the Oovetnment had resisted with a suit. Under the Hardin s
administration the euit was dropped. Standard was permitted to invade
the reserve, and leases upon other portions were granted to the Doheny
(Continued on JjfLge Seven)
OF IITEREST TO
TRAVELLERS,
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DISTANCK* IlKTttRKV XOMK A*D NKNAXA AND ACCOMODATIONS.
( CompiM b>- CharlpN 4obm. of the. Alaska Hoad CominKslon. ).
. Solomon.
.Topkuk .
.Cheokuk ....
.Golovin.
.Walla Walla ..
.Bonanza ....
.Foothills .. ..
. Unalakleet .. .
. Whaleback .. .
.Twenty Two Mil
. Koyukuk ....
. Galena
.Louden .
.Whiskey Creek
. MeKndees . . . .
. Rig Albert . . .
. Kollands . . . .
LecomudMtioii
. Roadhouse . . .
. Roadhouse . . .
.Shelter Cabin
. Roadhouse . . .
.Shelter Cabin
. Roadhouse . . .
.Shelter Cabin
. Roadhouse . . .
.Shelter Cabin
. Roadhouse . . .
.Roadhouse ...
. Roadhouse . . .
. Roadhouse . . .
.Shelter Cabin
.Shelter Cabin
.Shelter Cabin
.Shelter Cabin
.Roadhouse ...
.Roadhouse ...
.Roadhouse ...
. Roadhouse . . .
(Whiteman)
(Whiteman)
. .Territorial
(Whiteman)
. .Territorial
(Whiteman)
. .Territorial
. . (Native)
. .Territorial
.. . (Native)
(Native)
(Native)
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. .Territorial
. .Territorial
. .Territorial
. .Territorial
( Whiteman)
(Whiteman)
( Whiteman)
. Woodchopper
. Hot Springs .
.Dugan Creek
. Campbells
.Old Minto.
.Nenana ..
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse.
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse
. Roadhouse .
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. . . (Native)
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. (Whiteman>
KOCGAUOK MAIL TRAIL
Stations Distance
(Leave Nome for)
. . Dexter Roadhouse . . . . 8.5 .
. .Jacobsen’s Roadhouse. . 15 .
IT. S. Roadhouse.33.
Peterson Cabins.40 .
Iron Creek Cabin.60.
Hot Springs Mission ... .72.
Mary’s Igloo Village ... .75 .
Shelton Cabins .90.
Dahl Creek Cabins ....102.
'oarse Gold Roadhouse 122.
Taylor Roadhouse .. ..142.
oinodalion
.Jacobsen
..(No one there now)
. (No one there now >
.Native Cabins
Whiteman
Whiteman
. .Colored
.Shelter Cabin
.Roadhouse ...
.Whiteman
.Territorial
Whiteman
. Whiteman
THIJiKR MAIL TRAIL
Stations Distance
(Leave Nome For)
.Penny River .10
.Cripple River.12
.Sinrock.26
.Wooley.44
. Douglas.59
.Teller.75
.Mission .81
.Lost River.102
. .W’ales Village.142
Accomodation
.Cabins . .
.Roadhouse . .
.Shelter Cabin
.Shelter Cabin
. Roadhouse . .
. Mission
.Cabins.
.Village.
.Native
. (Whiteman)
, . .Territorial
. . Territorial
. (Whiteman)
. Mining Co.
. .Whiteman
most always secure accomodations at the school house
maht s igloo trail
ThU (rmll Wtm the Teller Mail Trail at Teller going np the Bay
to Mary'* Itfoo.
Between HtitMm
12....Head of harbor.
13. . . . Agiapuk.
12 . Salt Lake .
4 . . . . Across Salt Lake
9 . . . . Mary's Igloo . . .
Acromoditita
.Shelter Cabin
COUNCIL MAIL TRAIL
This Trail leaves the Overland Mall Trail at Golovin,
Station* Distance
.White Mountain .18
.Carvels Cabin .28
Nlukluk River .32
Council.40
Accomodation Owner
. . . .Gov't School . . . .Whiteman
. . . .Trappers Cabin. . .Whiteman
.... Abandoned cabins
....Roadhouse .Whiteman
KOTZEBUE MAIL TRAIL
Leave Overland Mail Trail at Bonanza Roadhouse (Native)
Between
Stations
. Mouth Koyuk . .
. Dime Landing .
. Haycock .
. Sweepstakes . . .
. McCoys Cabin . .
.Quarts Creek .. .
.Candle.
.Willow Bay -
. Dealing.
.Shelter Cabin ..
.Mud Point ... ..
. Blossom Pdftage
.Kotteboc .
Distance
.1*8 .
.218.
.227.
.232.
Accomodation
.... Roadhouse ..
.... Storehouses ..
. . . .Roadhouse . .
.. .. Cabins.
.Cabins .
.Shelter Cabin
.Ropdhouae .
.Storehouse
.. .. RoMhousb ..
.Shelter Cabin
.Nothing
.Nothing
.Stored .... .'
. .Whiteman
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. .Whiteman
. . .Whiteman
. . Territorial
... Whiteman
. . . Whiteman
. .Japanese
Territorial
Travelers can go from Candle to Keewalik a distance of eight ratlei
where a good roadhouse is run by a white man from which point it li
but forty two miles to the Shelter CaMir.
* JOHN A. WHAON a
* VM. MINERAL HURVEYOR a
* Some, Alaska. t
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| NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. .
| To P. A. Kornolt, V. A. Julien, C. E.
j Ryberg, J. Godin. L. Williams, C.
| Pelletier and J. Dubois, your and
l each of your heirs, executors, ad
j •ministrators and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended during
enrh of the years of 1914, 1915,
1916. 1920. 1921, 1922 and 1923,
the sum of One hundred Dollars,
($100.00), in Labor and Improve
ments. upon that certain pla
cer miming claim ton-own as and
being OSBORNE NO. 1 ASSOCIA
TION. situated on Osborne Creek a
tributary ..f the Nome River,
Hi the Cape Nome Mining District
and Precinct. Territory of Alaska;
the location certificate or notice of
which said claim is of record In the
office of the reoorder of said mining
district and precinct, in Vol. 190, a't
Page 173. of the records of loca
tions of said mining district and
precinct.
That said work was performed as
provided by Sec. 2324. of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sev
eral interesrts in said claim, to the
undersigned, co-owner with you
therein, within ninety days after the
-•ervloe of this notice on you by pub
lication thereof, or your interest in
said claim will become forfeited
and vest in the undersigned, as pro
vided !»>• said statutes.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this
2nd dav of February, 1924.
JOE BOITRGET
Co-Owner
By A. A. Chaenon. Agent
Publish Feb. 2. 9. 16. 23. March 1. 8.
15. 22. 29. April 5. 12. 19. 26. 1924
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To P. A. Kornell. V. A. Julian. C. E.
Ryberg, Jeff Godin. L. Williams.
C. Pelletier and J. Dubois, your
and each of your heirs, adminis
trators. successors and assigns:
You and each of .you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, a*
co-owner therein, has expended th‘
sum of One Hundred ($100.00- dol
lars during each of the years 1914.
1915. 1916, 1920. 1921. 1922 and
1923. for labor and improvement?
upon and for thp benefit of th*
placer mining claim known and
being OSBORNE NO. 2 ASSOCIA
TION placer mining claim, situated
on Osborne Creek a tributary of
the Nome River, in the Cape Nome
Recording District and Precinct.
Territory of Alaska. The original
location of which claim Is recorded
in Vol. 190. at Page 174, of the
records of locations in the. office of
the recorder of said precinct.
That, said work was performed as
provided by See. 2324, of the Re
vised Statute® of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
I And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sev
eral interests in said claim, to the
undersigned, co-owner with you
therein, within ninety days after the
service of tWa notice, on you by pub
; iication thereof, or your interest in
liMUd claim will become forfeited
and vest in the undersigned, as pro
vided by said statutes.
| Dated at Nome. Alaska, this
i 2nd dav of February. 1924.
JOE BOUftGl&T.
Co-OWrter
By A. A. Chagnon. Agent
Publish Feb. 2. 9. 16. 23. March 1. §.
16, 22. 29. April 6. 12. 19. 26. 1924
NOTICE OF forfeiture.
To Wm. Fraaler. J. Godin. A. O.
Taft. Win. Dougherty and W.
Oetchell. you and each of youi
heirs, executors, administrators
and aaaigns:
You. and each of you. are hereby
notified that the undemlgbed. as
co-owner therein, has expanded the
sum of One Hundred ($100.60)
dollars during each of the years
1916. 1920. 1921. 192? ami 1923.
for labor and improvement* on and
for the benefit of the ;»l* ,oc rain n*;
claim known and being the NE1V
YEAR ASSOCIATION CLAIM, situ
ated on Washington Creek, a tribu
tary of Nome River, in Cape Nome
Mining and Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, notice of loca
tion whereof Is recorded 1n Book
190. at page 364. in the records ol
said recording district.
That said work WAs performed a*
provided by Bee. $324, of the Re
vised Statutes of the United Statei
and supplemental legislation, foi
the purpose of holding said claim
And you are severally requited U
contribute your proportion of •«**
expenditure according to your aever
al interests in said claim, to the un
dersigned po-owner with you there
in, wit.h4-n nicety days after the *er
vice of this notice on ydu by publi
cation thereof, or your ti
said claim w*M become forfeited an4
reat in the undersigned, ae provide,
by said statutes. . . .
Bated at Noma. AtArij}. tjl»
2nd da*-of Frtsruary.
JOE BOURGET.
By A. A. Chagnon. Agon
Publish Feb. 2. 1.16. 22. Mnreh 1. i
16, 22. 29, April 6, 12, It, 36, !•$
New and uptadate ttgal farm* fir
Proaf of Annual AxanMneat Waifc
Oil Location blanks, Daad blanks
for ssnaral usa, Special and General
Power of Attorney forma. Placer and
QuPl* Location forma now on sals
at Nugget OfReo. Price 15 cents etfefc
or $1.00 per ddasn.
NOTH* OF SALE OF
REAL ROTATE
IN THE ' U. 8. COMMISSIONER'S
COURT IN AND FOiR THE1 ‘PRB
CINCT OF CAPE NOME. ALAS
KA. SECOND DIVISION.
IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the Estate of
PETER BRENNAN. Deceased.
Notice is hereby Riven. That in
pursuance of an order duly made by
the above entitled court, on the 15th
day of December, 1923, tbe under
signed administrator of the above
| estate will sell, at public auction,
to the highest bidder for cash, sub
ject to the confirmation of said
court. Saturday, the 1st day of
March. 1924. at the hour of two
o’clock P. M.. at the office of the
I). S. Recorder for the above Pre
cinct and Territory, at Nome. Alas
ka. all the right, title and interest
of the said Peter Brennan at the
time of his death, in and to that
certain mining claim, in said Pre
cinct and Territory, known as the
t Maudeline Placer Mining Claim,
situate at the head of Nekkla Gulch,
and notice of location of which said
claim is in Volume 38. Page 42. of
the records of Cape Nome Precinct.
Terms and conditions of sale:
Cash, in lawful money of the Un
ited States; twenty (20%) percent
to the undersigned on the day of the
sale and the balance upon confir
mation of sale by the above court
and the delivery of a conveyance.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 15th
day of December 1923.
DAN CONNOLLY,
Administrator.
Publish Jan. 19. 26. Feb. 2. 9. 16.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To J. R. SILVA, your heirs, legal
representatives and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, as co-owner therein,
has expended the sum of one hund
red dollars for the years 1901. 1902,
1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1901,
1909, 1910. 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915. 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919, 1920,
1921. 1922, 1923. in labor and im
provements on and for the benefit
of CLAIM NO. TWO ABOVE on
Candle Creek, in Falrhaven Record
ing Precinct. Territory of Alaska,
notice of Location whereof is record
e<l in Vol. 11, Page 268. of the re
cords of the Fairhaven PTecinct, in
the performance of the annual
labor required by section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Supplemental legislation, in
order to hold 9aid claim.
And you are hereby required to
contribute -your proportion of such
expenditure according to your in
terest in said claim to the under
signed co-owner with you therein,
within ninety days after the service
of this notice on you by publication
thereof, or your interest in said
claim will become forfaited an*
vested in tJbe undersigned »« pro
vided by the said statute.
M. E. THOMAS.
Co-Owner
By Fred Tieplnman. his agent.
Publish Jan. 26. Feb. 2. 9, 16, 23,
March 2. 9. 16. 23. 30. April 6. 13,
ronimnTRi notick
t, A ARAN J0HN8ON. WILLIAM
BENSON, your and each of your
heirs and legal representative*:
You are hereby notified that the
mdersigned. as co-owner therein,
las expended the sum of one bul
lied dollars in labor and iraprove
nents upon the ALBATROSS Placer
liming Claim (location notices of
vhich are recorded in Vol. 153 at
Page 257. and Vol. 171 at Page 332,
the Records of the Cape Nome
ILning District, Territory of AIM*
im) for the year 1916, and for a like
turn for each of the years ending
fuly first 1921, 1922 and 1923, as
provided by Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States and
legislation supplemental thereto, to.
nder to hold said claim.
And you are hereby required to
[‘imtribute your proportion of sue*
•xoenditure, according to your Inlet
sat in said claim, to the undersign
ed co-owner with you therein, at
Nome. Alaska, within ninety days
si ter the service of this notice on
yon by publication thereof, o* ypn*
interest In said claim will haeopne
forfeited, and vest ia the uhietMgn
cd. as providede by the aaH’ntntntee.
WDfNTFRKP *. MAN*. *
Cm-Owner.
Publish Jan. It, *«r F®b- •» 16’
23. March 2, t, 1*. **• APrU •»
IS, 1924.