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Show AltMS FOR DAKOTA. GENERAL MILES SAYS THE SITUATION IS STILL ALARMING. Ha has a Consultation With tha Secretary of the Interior Mora Troops from tha southwest for South Dakota. Washington, Dec. 1. Representative Representa-tive Cutcheon, of Michigan, today introduced in-troduced in the house a joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to issue to the state of South Dakota 1000 rifles and ammunition to enable the authorities to assist the government in protecting the citizens and their property prop-erty against the Indians. Miles "till Alarmed. Washington, Dec. 1. General Mile spent half an hour with the secretary of the Interior this afternoon in discussion on the Indian question. Upon leaving the secretary's oflice he said the Sioux continued very much excited, and he feared an outbreak. He regarded the situation as alarming, and would hasten back to Chicago tonight. He expressed the hope, however, that the military would be able to prevent bloodshed. Troops for nakota. Topeka. Kan., Dec, 1. A dispatch was received at the Santa Fe oflice this morning stating that twelve car loads of troops left Forts Bayard and Win-gate, Win-gate, N. M., for Fort Meade, N. D. Eight hundred oldiors were transferred. |