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Show ltarKftiulne Willi IudlauN. Washington, 12. Tbe secretary of the interior and commissioner of Indian In-dian a flairs hare been engaged for more than a week in negotiating with a band of Colorado Ute Indians, now here, for the purchase ol a large area of lands which beloog to these Indians. The negotiations were brought to a head yesterday. The fridians sell to government an area of four miles square of their lands in Ouray valley, demanded by tbe people peo-ple who are working the mines of that district, which are inaccessible except through these lands. These mining lands aro very valuable. Three tribes of Ules of Colorado sell altogether 12,000,000 acres ol their : reservation. |