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Show Indian Troubles al Missoula. Helena, Mont., 27. A Missoula extra, dated Missoula, Mont., 25th, 5 p.m., says: The following dispatch from Burnett, assistant adjutant gen. era! at Fort Shaw, was received here at 4.35 p.m., brought by Lieutenant Andrews of the Missoula volunteers. The Indians are between 300 and 330 strong. This information is from interpreters. in-terpreters. Burnett is entrenching with twenty regulars and about filly volunteers, in Lobo cafion. Have promises of more volunteers, but am not certain of them. Please send along more troops. Will go up and see them tomorrow, and ILI orm them that unless they disarm and dismount I will give thorn a fight. White Bird says he will go through peacably if he eon, but will go through. This news is entirely reliable. Beer Lodge, Mont., 26.A courier who arrived from Missoula at 9.30 a. rn., reports that be met the governor at 9 o'clock last night, ten miles out from Missoula- 'The governor sent word to Secretary Mills to arm all the men be could and forward them to Missoula at once. |