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Show IT four OVKIt A MILLION, Tha lt.r.nt lurtlmi C'anipitlK'i " n Fl' prnitr. Onn. Washington. Feb. 5. The estimate sent to congress by the secretary of war to supply the deficiency in the quartermaster's department, shows tho cost of tne Indian campaign, just closed, was tl.HnO.OOO. The principal returns are J'.Ktt.OtHl for transportation of troops and supplies, JIHS.oiK) for the extra clothing, camp and garrison equipage necessary to fit out for a winter campaign, cam-paign, $70,000 to replace horses broken dow n in tho campaign, and the purchase pur-chase of ponies, and H7,000 to cover differences in the cost of supplies purchased pur-chased for the troops in the Held and the contract price at the posts from which the troops were drawn. There were other expeuses under the supply department thai will probably bring the total cost of the campaign tip to $-',000,000, a sum sullicieiit to have given the Sioux the $100,000 annual appropriation ap-propriation promised them for a period of twenty years. |