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Show FILE 50IT AGAINST WYOMING CONCERNS DENVER. Colo., Sept. 13. Action Peking to enjoin the Uhio Oil company, the Mid-West Oil companj-, the Mid-West Mid-West Keh'nin company, the Grass Creek Oil and Caa company of Montana, two 'other corporations and fifteen individual individ-ual defendants from operating claims in Wyoming oil fields, tvas filed in the Cnited States district court or" Wyoming at Ohoyenne today, according to advices received here. The suit was instituted by T. W. Gregory, attorney geDeral of the Cnited States," aDd, according to government agents, is the forerunner of similar suits which will involve producing wells in Wyoming valued at $100,006 to $200,-000. $200,-000. The proceeding is said to lie based on an executive order issued by President Presi-dent William H. Taft, on September 27, 1009, by which lands on which the wells are located were withdrawn from entry. The legalitv of this order was sustained bv the United States Supreme court. ' According to the Taft order, the withdrawals with-drawals were made to conserve the nation's na-tion's oil supply for the benefit of the navy. ... In addition to a permanent injunction, the government asked a temporary restraining re-straining order to compel the immediate suspension of operations in the Grass Creek oil districts and damages for all oil extracted since the executive order became effective. SAX FT? A X 'I SCO, Sept. 15. B. .1. Justice, special assistant to the United States attorney general, who is prosecuting prose-cuting the government 's oil caseB. said today that several hundred acres of oil i lands, valued roughly at J500.000, are involved in the suits filed in Cheyenne. Mnrc. he said, are to be tiled in consonance conso-nance with the decision of the Cnited States supreme court in the Midway ! case last winter. |