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Show OPENING OF TH! BLACK HI' LS 1 Chicago, 20 A meeting of mem-i mem-i oers of congress irom the northwestern northwest-ern states and territories was held in ! W-L-hinglon a few evenings since, the .objeet t.f wine 1 wiw to discuss and adopt a method looking to the open-ingof open-ingof the. Black Hills. The president and the secretary of war aro of the opinion that it would be impossible to keep miners out of the Hills, and although al-though thaj will not acknowledge it, it is known thai the military have had orders not to disturb either those who are already in the Hills, or those who are on the way there. When Gen. Sheridan was here the matter was talked over very freely with the president, and such a decision as 3tated above was reached. Mr. Steele, of Wyoming, has introduced intro-duced a resolution in the house directing direct-ing the committee on appropriations to maka the Hpproprialon for the Sioux Indians contingent upon their consent to cede tho Black Hills to the United States for a reasonable price. |