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Show mi: (.!.; i.v rut: uoonni.i:. YA hy Ciiluiiilslnliev yVmiili lilV OliJeeU lo Hie Trt-iit.v Willi ilie sliosllolies. Va-iiim;t..n, I lee. M. An interview with .1. 1). Woodruff of Lander, Wyo., ihairiniiu of tin- Shoshone and Arupuhoe Indian coui-iiiissiuii, coui-iiiissiuii, h piihli.-iied. in which it is staled that he . ..n his way to Wa-hiiiirlon to op-pose, op-pose, the ratilienlioii of the treaty m-:;otiai. d by n majority or the comniis-ion, on the loiirnl that the price paid was more than tlie hind wa- worth. ('. II. Ncrrillal, who was one of Ihe majority major-ity of the eoiiiniis-ion, -aid in nil interview to.day that the coiiiiuis-ioii secured more Hum half of the re-t -nation of tli. se Indians-ill Indians-ill Wvomliii.-. The. amount eeded is- estimated nl l.loii.iioo acres out of 2,IIJIM Ions"' to tin- Indian.-, nml the i mumiiou paitl a!.. .ut cents per acre. The lands nr.- well watered hy the Wind rivr and ilii; 14,. i n, w ith their Irihularies; oi.il tiniher i., found in the northern and western portions, and there, are evidence of minerals. In Wyoming the A hid river country is retarded as one of the favored portions of the slate. Mr. Woodruff is disappointed, said Xerril-lat, Xerril-lat, I.eeau-e the Indians nhsolutely refused to accept the offer lie made of Jloil.OiHI for only nhout tjo.iKK) lo res additional m ar the town of Lander. The majority of the commission, commis-sion, in disresrai d of Woodruff's advice not to make a treaty unb-.-s the Indians would sell this southern strip, made a treaty to buy the northern and eastern portions of the res-crvation res-crvation and thereby secure all the lands the Indians will part with at the present time. That Woodruff's opposition arises solely from his failure lo jret tills southern tract, even for so much as tl.l'id per acre, is evidenced evi-denced by the record of tlie first council, when he himself made a proposition to pay tlie Indians the s.imo amount of money the commission afterward agreed on for the identical iden-tical laud secured. , |