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Show A War Claim Dismissed. Washington, Oct. 80. In the claim of Thos. Burgess, of Dutch Mills, 'Arkansas, amounting to 11880, for compensation com-pensation for depredations alleged to have been committed in 1864 by Cherokee Indians, the secretary secre-tary of the interior today decided that the damage for which this claim is made was committed by the military forces of the United States during the war of the rebellion, and that it is a class of wrongs for which congress has provided no redress. He, therefore, recommends that the claim be dismissed, dis-missed, i |