The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-26

almost malignant. protests of the
grafters themselves. Faunching and
sauirming under the Leaders expos
ure Of their dastardly attempt TO sand
bag a trust which until now has been
revered as new commonwealths
sacred bequest to posterity the willy
eraaers. forgetting for the nonce
their own Witness operate their
poisonous fangs and discerning no
( Immediate haven Of refuge turn and
bite themselves. AS rule the Capital
will defend a graft with tonacity
born Of despair 1t does It with
snence-cold, omnious, ikinsphinx
like silence. AS a graft the Capital
long since won a diploma. It knows
that a plain burglar-lIlke steal, in order
to be successful, must be done in the
dark. Loud, clamorous beating OF
tom-toms and circus-worded advance
notices telling of the approach Of a
steal are not favored by the Capital.
But the expose Of graft causes belly
aching and as be, cher for cash,
the Capital is peerless. The Capital.
under the editorial direction of Bill
Little chief beneficiary OF the school
land loot, has now entered upon the
work of covering a nude public graft
Little is partial to the nude Com,
plying with the commands of the ad
ministration Little attempts to dag
nose his steal in this mornings Capi-
tai. His drivel is at once amusing and
nauseous. 1t smacks Of whisky, Gig
arettes and conceit Expecting to find
some widely-heralded Information
about school lands" we read instead,
a palsled and covert description of
Little's proposed method Of buncoing
a fund which Renfrow established and
preserved and which Barnes how
ever much he was assalled otherwise.
never allowed odium to faint
The very fact that the Capital pro
tests so vigorously is prima facie eyi- /
dence that the school land loot is on
good, hard and strong.
races must be provided for dis
gruntled. sore headed political nou-
descripts. How to do this was a
corker for the administration until
Bin Little recommended to the school
land leasing board the advisabIllty Of
making school land funds serve as
sore healers. Little's suggestion was
adopted and now we find Little receiv-
ing $40 day expenses for directing
the unnecessary appraisement OF Kio-
wa lands. Under him we hnd six
corps composed of six sore heads
each. each man receiving S5 a day and
expenses for period Of three months
The expenses do not include wagons, I
cooks, food, whisky and the other
necessaries Of a Kiowa outing for pay.
Trace the records Of the school land
department under Blincoe and Filson
and s1,lo5 is found to be the aggre- q
gate expense for appraising all the
school lands in Oklahoma after inn
proyements were made, up TO the
present time. And two men perform.
81 nearly an OF this work. Il
No sooner is the new administration
firmly entrenched in the saddle than
a plan is devised for an expenditure /
'f perhaps $4,000 for approising 500 d
sections OF school land Ia the Kiowa t
country. There is no provision for
such appraisement When school
ands are FIRST opened the appraise u
nent is made on the basis Of competi- il
i've bids. For seven years past com h
petition has marked the Appropriated y
ialue Of new lands, At the expiration !,
If the first lease the land and ina. f.
are appraised. "
The appointment of this board OF
appraisers is not only a useless waste