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Show General Terry, who is en louleto the British possessions to treat with Sitting Sit-ting Bull, informed the Cheyenne Leader that the commission is sent out in response to a formal and urgent request from the Canadian government govern-ment to indues Sitting Bull, if possible, possi-ble, to surrender his arms aud ponies and return to this country. Sitting Bull, he said, was a thorn in the side of the Canadian authorities; he and his band roam at will through the best hunting grounds of the Indians now living anross the border who are at peace with everybody, and by their wholesale destruction of feed and game cause ill feeling among the northern red men, which is liable to make trouble. It is believed that Major Walsh will inform Sitting Bull that he must remove across the line or fight the British, - -Major Walsh will furnish the commissioners with aj military escort while in British territory. terri-tory. , |