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Show REPORT OF CENERAL RUCER. He la Not Apprehensive of any Trouble From the Indiana. . Washington, Oct. 80. General Ru-ger, Ru-ger, commanding the department of Dakota, has submitted to the war department de-partment his annual report. Ruger says there is no reason in general to apprehend molestation of the settlers upon the ceded lands of the Sioux reservation, res-ervation, even by the most disaffected Indians, if the latter are kept under military observation at the few points where friction will most likely result from the settlements. Respecting the threatened trouble at Flathead lake, Montana, he says: "It appears upon inquiry that there is little probability of any serious trouble; that the enforcement by the civil offi-.cers offi-.cers of the statuto prohibiting the sale of Jiquor to the Indians and half-breeds is the principal necessity. He approves ap-proves the post canteen system. |