OIL: Action

While the Legislative Branch of the Government continued its manifold inquiries into oil and other allied matters, the Executive Branch of the Government began action in the same.

Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the...

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