| Show op an GUY an r rean 1 on er EDWARD DOHENY OIL KING KIND DIES DIES' Influenza Proves Fata Fatal Fatal Fa Fa- Fa- Fa tal ta to Magi Mag ate BEVERLY HILLS fiLLS Cal Cat Sept 9 UP UP Edward Edward d Laurence Doheny oil emperor lay dead here today At 79 the son of an Irish Immigrant Immigrant Imn i grant and whose pick and shovel first tapped the great Pacific coast oil oU fields died quietly in the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of or members of his family Doheny had been failing In health since 1929 when his son Edward L. L Doheny Jr was slain by a crazed secretary Last week the oil magnate contracted contracted contracted con con- what was thought to be a mild case of or intestinal influenza at athis athis athis his ranch near here He was brought to his Beverly Hills home where he seemed to be recovering Sunday afternoon he lapsed into unconsciousness which persisted until his death Rites Ritell Wednesday Funeral services will be held at 10 a. a m. m Wednesday in St. St Vincents Vincent's cathedral endowed by Doheny with ith his old friend Bishop Francis Francis' C. C I Kelley of of Oklahoma City assisting Bishop John 1 J. J Cantwell of Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles in the requiem high mass Born in a Fond Du Lac Wis Vis farmhouse in 1856 western gold lured Doheny soon after he graduated graduated graduated grad grad- from high school He was a failure as 88 a prospector until he turn turned d his attention to black gold goldon on the slope Here his touch became enchanted and oil spouted as if it by magic where Doheny Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny drills probed He started hf hii hi first well With a pick and shovel on the outskirts of Los Angeles later persuading a banker to lend Jend him money f for r drilling drill drill- ing lug equipment four y years ars he had brought In 69 producing wells Thereafter the Doheny fortune fortune fortune for for- tune multiplied fabulously sly In Teapot Dome ome Scandal The magnate reached the height of his career carer In 1924 when the Teapot Teapot Tea Tea- pot Dome Dome oil scandal stagg staggered red th the Lne e naming administration and antI an th the Lne e naming administration and antI an brought indictments indictments' against Doheny Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny and Albert B. B Fall secretary of the interior Doheny was acquitted In November Novem Novem- ber bee 1926 of at a charge of ot conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection connection connection con con- with the Elk Hills naval petroleum leases Fall was convicted of ot conspiracy and accepting from front the magnate Doheny told the court his motives were patriotic and that the cash his hisson Fall in little son gave a black bag was just a loan Ioan from an old friend Explaining the Impulse which led him to lease the naval oil oU reserves for development nt he said C Captain i Jon John K Robison ha had told him In 1921 that the United Stares fleet had been ord ordered red to mobilize in anticipation anticipation antici antici- pation of war with Japan Shortly before death his agents sought to evict Fall from the ranch near Three Rivers N N. M M. where he he- had bad lived since his re rel release re- re l lease ase from prison Fall however insisted that Do- Do oh on on Put Fate Two Dohe Doheny y Figure in Teapot Dome Oil Scandal Dies Continued COntinue IS from Paw Pare One On heny was not lot responsible for the action The ranch was involved Inthe Inthe in inthe the Teapot t Dome Dorius case can since Ince Doheny Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny testified he had been given stock in the tho cattle company operating operating ing tag It in return for the loan Joan Doheny was the son aon of Patrick Doheny who vho c came carne e to the United States from front Ireland and an Irish Irish- Canadian mother From 1872 to 1875 he was a government government gov gov- surveyor working in iii Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas th the theS Indian country and New few Mexico Thereafter he became a prospector and drifted from camp to mining camp from the th Black Hills HilI to the Ri Rio Grande Rise Rile Began Degan at 40 0 He was 40 years old and flat broke when he ho struck oil in southern southern south south- ern era California Doheny was a partner partner part part- ner ncr of Charles ICharles A. A Canfield and Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph A. A Chanslor planning to prospect prospect prospect pros pros- the Mojave desert for gold when he happened across a book on oil exudes in m California written by V. W. A. A Goodyear who was assistant state engineer One day he saw a dump wagon on a 8 Los Angeles street carrying a arich arich rich black earth He traced its source hunted up Canfield and went to work ont i oil Il well with pick and shovel shoeI When their inadequate tools forced them to quit Doheny pestered pes pes- te ed a skeptical banker for a loan To a q query cry about security he e tapped his forehead and r replied Ive got security here I know more about oil than any man in California He got the he loan In Big B BI Business sin lnell ss At Athis his death Doheny was wal dent of 17 oil all companies director of at five banks and chairman of ot the thebo bo board rd of ot four of ot the largest petroleum petroleum petro petro- leum units in the country IncludIng including in ing Pan American Petroleum and Transport P American Pan merican Western Pan-American Pan of California and Mexican Petroleum of ot California His huge estate was expected tobe to tobe tobe be shared by his widow Carrie Estelle Es- Es j Es-j telle tells Betzold Doheny who he ho married mar mar- ried ned in Marshalltown Iowa in 1900 the widow of his son slain in 1929 now now Mrs Leigh Battson and her ner five children hildren of whom he was grandfather They are Lucy Estelle Estelie Doheny 19 Edwa Edward EdwardL dL L. L DJ ny IH IU 17 Hen Henry ry William Doheny 15 Patrick Anson Anson An- An AnIon Ion son Doheny 11 11 and Timothy Timothy- Michad Michael Michael Mi Mi- chael chad Doheny 8 8 I r r r- r i j Edward Eduard L. L Doheny |
