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Show The Co.M5tissio.vEas who recently visited the Los Pinos agency, in southern south-ern Colorado, fur tho purpose of pur Rasing th. lands of tho Ute nation, have returned without success. Still, they console themselves with the assurance as-surance thai lho 0pcniog wcd(,o bas uTeV" I"' ,Wi llut SOOn" r Indians, who cm0 , ith . the bring of old rust, revoUeT They plead their extreme poverty and want, seven hundred of them owning Only some 20,000 acres of land to eactx man, woman and child. It was supposed sup-posed by the commissioners that some I hidden speculation was on foot, in this poverty-stricken nation, and, after several days of pow-wow about the homes of their people and tho graves of their fathers, tho whole matter was dropped for tho present. |