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Show INDIAN LANDS PURCHASED. Ona Million and a Half Aoraa to ba Op.nad for S.ttl.ment. Spokane Falls, Wash., May 20. The commissioners appointed to negotiate nego-tiate with the various tribes of Indians now occupying the Colville reservation north of this city, returned today. Their efforts resulted in nn agreement with the Iudiaiis by whieh one million and a half acres of reservation, (or a little more than one half) are to be sold to the government for $1 per acre and thrown open to settlement. The land ceded constitutes one of the richest and must attractive portions of the slate. |