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Show Siebrakft Citizens Wiml Hie Kiuux luiiiuu tVeur Tlieiii. Washington, 29, A petition was received at the interior department) to day from the judge and other county officers and numerous citizens of Knox county, Ntb., requesting that in the event of tho removal of the Sioux Indians from .Spotted Tail agency to any point on the Missouri river within 300 miles of Knox, that they may be located on the old Ponca agency in the imraediato neighborhood neighbor-hood of the petitioners. The latter say that it is a well established fact that the settlers near a Sioux reservation reserva-tion are lesa liable to disturbance than those at a distance, it being characteristic of the Sioux to go lar away from tbe reserves to commit depredations. |