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Show A Traveling CoiiiiHis.sioiier. Sioux City, Iowa, IK. Hon. E. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian allairs, has just concluded a trip from Bis-mark Bis-mark to this point; visiting all the: intervening points on the river, and . holding council with the Indians. He found the reds generally inclined! to peace, but was hardly satisfied with their condition at points above j the Yankton agency. There is little, opportunity for agricultural pursuits, ftsithc country is generally barren, j This fact conipliented the Indjau; question in the Commissioner's niitnl materially. He has some hopes of t inducing them to try stock raising, and by way of experiment he pur-chased pur-chased of Dr. Burleag, forme-ly delegate dele-gate to congress from Dakota, a stab! lion and two bulls for the Yankton , and Sun tec agencies. The Ooinmis-1 sioner, to-morrow, will visit the Win-, nubago and Omaha agencies near here, in Nebraska, and then leave the bonier on his return trip to Washington Wash-ington by way of St. Paul. |