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Show U. S. MARINES OUST TEAPOT DOME DRILLERS! CAPTAIN AND MEN SEAL OP WYOMING WELL ;Despite Protest of Governor I Carey 'Armed Force' Moves to Drillings Ifence is erected Plan Is to Create Technicality Techni-cality in Battle for Big Oil Rights CASPER, Wyo . Aug 2. United States marines In rommanad of Cap-jtain Cap-jtain George Shuler at noon today stood guard over a well on section 20 of the i Teapot Dome, naval oil reserve, 4 0 1 I miles north of here, having carried I out orders of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to oust drillers of I the Mutual Oil company, which was said to have continued operations In defiance of interior department offl- i cials. seal on Well No friction of any kind occurred between be-tween the marines and the driller- in carrying out the department mandate I By noon today all movable tools had 'been removed In a large truck, the boilers are cooling off and the govern- ment seal has been placed on the rig by Captain Shuler. who pronounced it shut down for all further operations. An Inventory' was taken of all stationary station-ary tools, heavy pipe and well rlgglnp Bureau of mines men formed a Iparty which left shortly after the main ma-in nes arrived. ' H. G. O'Donnell, representative for .the Mutual company, also left for the I field this morning. I D. E& Altman, superintendent fori 'the Mutual is In charge of operations' on the lease and It Is on him that the 'orders to evacuate probably will bol Iscrved by the marines. Reports from the field state that I wire fence was erected around the Iwell site during the night this in-Iprovement in-Iprovement having been authorized Tuesday for the purpose of raising legal technicality which will later figure fig-ure in the contest over the lease. Which Is also claimed by the Mammoth Mam-moth OH company. The latter was recently granted an exclusive lease by the navy and interior departments for development of the entire dome |