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Show SETTLERS DESERT THEIR HOMES. All Heoaa.a an Indian Scare Started by Home Evil Minded I'.r.on St. Pail, Feb. 7. Shoriff Youngren and County Auditor Jadis of Kittsan county, who returned to Hallock from Roseau valley and lake of the woods, report to Governor Merriam that the settlers, because of the Indian scare, are leaving those localities in t large numbers. At Jadis on the Roseau river, the sottlers were building a stockado and had organized or-ganized a volunteer company to defend ""'themselves ngftiutt the Indian'.' The officials sty the whole business seems to have been started by some evil disposed dis-posed person. Betweon three hundred and four hundred people have left their homes, most of them in a very destitute condition. A they left their stock to shift f ir themselves they will doubtless lose many cattle. |