Show The Ponca Clilcls Talk Washington 22 The Ponca chiefs who eome time ago asked permission to visit Washington arrived here yesterday and this morning Secretary Sohurz held a council with them in tbe presence of Gen Crook Mr Stickney and Mr Walter Allen three of the Ponca commissioners lately named by the President General Miles being out of town Ponca chiefs declared unanimously unani-mously that they desired to remain in Indian Territory and to take permanent perma-nent homes there to sell their Dakota Da-kota land and to acquire a title to their reservation in Indian Territory They said further that there had not been any sickness among them for a year They were emph itio in declaring de-claring that they wanted Mr Tibbies I and other white men who had been I trying to get them back to Dakota and thus interfering with tbeir work leg and becoming prosperous to let them alone henceforth They further declared teat this wes not only their own individual opinion but the unani raous sentiment of nil their people living in Indian Territory The chiefs here represent every band in be Ponca tribe |