n the streets, with the secret at the
disposal of every man who had two bits in his pants. Those were the
identical words of that advance-guard of civilization and refinement,
Mr. J. Walter Mong.

It was midnight when the circulator of _The Chieftain_--engaged for that
important day only--burst out of the tent with an armful of papers,
crying them in a voice that would have been red if voices had been
colored in Comanche, it was so scorched from coming out of the tract
which carried liquor to his reservoir.

"_Ho-o-o!_ Git a extree! Git a extree! All about the mistake in the
winner of Number One! Git a extree! _Ho-o-o-o!_"

People caught their breaths and stopped to lean and listen. Mistake in
the winner of Number One? What was that? The parched voice was plain
enough in that statement:

"Mistake in the winner of Number One."

A crowd hundreds deep quickly surrounded the vender of extras, and
another crowd assembled in front of the office, where Editor Mong stood
with a pile of papers at his hand, changing them into money almost as
fast as that miracle is performed by the presses of the United States
Treasury.

Walker and William Bentley bored through the throng and bought a paper.
Standing under the light at a saloon door, they read the exciting news.
Editor Mong had cleared a place for it, without regard to the beginning
or the ending of anything else on the page, in the form which had
carried his last extra of the day. There the announcement stood in bold
type, two columns wide, under an exclamatory

EXTRA!

William Bentley read aloud:

Owing to a mistake in transmitting the news by telephone, the
name of the winner of Claim Number One in today's land-drawing at
Meander was omitted. The list of winners published heretofore in
_The Chieftain_ is correct, with the single exception that each
of them moves along one number. Number One, as announced, becomes
Number Two, and so on down the list.

The editor regrets this error, which was due entirely to the
excitement and confusion in the office at Meander, and takes this
earliest opportunity of rectifying it.

The editor also desires to announce that _The Chieftain_ will
appear no longer as a daily paper. Beginning with next Monday it
will be issued as a four-page, five-column weekly, containing all
the state, national, and foreign news. Price three dollars a year
in advan