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Show ARE THE INDIANS WILJINO?' A report to General Sheridan from; Colonel Carlin of the department of Dakota is to the efiect that tho chiefs Kill Eajtl and Little Wound, with 140 warriors and all their arms, ammunition am-munition and ponies, have surrendered. sur-rendered. In the party were twenty-nine twenty-nine men, all of whom wero in the ; . fiht of the Little Big Hur,n. There is also official information from the Cheyenne agency that messengers have arrived there direct from the hostile camp, bringing news that the Indiana are anxious to surrender to tho government. - The meisengcrB have been sent back with the information infor-mation lhatonly their unconditional surrender will be accepted as prisoners prison-ers of war, subject to the disposal of the government. This efluct is somewhat some-what counteract! by the reported ea-, ea-, 'cape of Sitting B'lli and a porlrni oi his command acro. tho ' MisVjuri. Until the propone! surrender h;is been conflhrnlnatod, and the- bad Indians who wish to bicorne good are court ted, speculation will be tiMleas, though it is gratifying to learn that the nt-ed of winter iqumrters and lalions has brought a lew of the hostile to torms., It should now bo tho business of the government to place them in jtooi; lions where their diiturbinu effort will hereafter bo f:s dangerous, It i time that wild Indians wrsre objigrd I f Ixcorne tamo undr th )); ualtic which attacli to the dHturh.ui'se of the peace by wliit tii'tn. m It may be an opportune oicanion to iiuint npon the removal of a larj'J portion of tho northern tribes to tho Indian territory. terri-tory. It wonTd evidently be an economical econ-omical arrnngirn':nt could thoy all bo located thwe, thoojh thn wild Sioux might be a daiimuM elern'jnt at prewnt in that territory. |