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Show Military iu the lilaek Hills. Colonel Wesley Merritt, of the fifth cavalry, is now in command of the Black Hills military district. His troops are scouting along the three main trails leading from Red Cloud northward. On the 3d mat. a party of about twenty Indians wore seen coming com-ing from tbe direction of the agency A detachment was sent iu pursuit, and the race became so hot that the Iu-dians Iu-dians dropped the flour, Btigar, bacon, new blankets, calicoes, aud other material which had been issued to them at Red Cloud. They escaped northward. But lew Indians have been seen going north. |