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Show Plucky Indians. Washington, 15. A delegation of forty-eight Chippewas from Minnesota, Minne-sota, visited the Indian department mcnt to-day. They left their ageacy without the permission of their agent and were four weeks on the road, paying their expenses by dancing, fcc, at different places. A half breed with them acted aB interpreter. They came to complain of their agent, and desired to remain here till an interpreter could come from Minnesota to present their caae properly. prop-erly. Commissioner Smith told them that under the circumstances ho could not keep them, and advised them to return at once, Tho signal office reports a severe earthquake to-day at Jamaica. |