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going on about the oil leases is but a repetition, in another form of the frauds practiced by both councilmen and oil men six years ago.

Although I do not quite like to during this heated season, I may stay on at Hominy for a few days if it looks as though I could get more material. If the chances do not look favorable I may not do so. Wa-xri-zhi says that he has built a new and comfortable house and I am welcome to come and stay with him but I am afraid of the water. The man who has consented to give me some of the non-hon-zhin-ga degrees is living near him and it would be an advantage to be there but for the danger of impairing the health.

The heat has been fearful but I it was general throughout the