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Show SELLS BELIEVES SETTLEMENT NEAR Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON'. Feb. 26. Indian Commissioner Com-missioner Cato Sells is optimistic regarding regard-ing the prospects for a peaceful settlement settle-ment of the Piute Indian troubles. He received a message today from Agents Creel and Jenkins, informing' him that they had induced sixty Piutes to return to the Navajo Springs agency and take , no part in the demonstrations against ; i the marshal's posse. While these In- dians are not connected directly with the hostile Piutes. it is believed by Commissioner Commis-sioner Sella that their determination to quit the field and return to the reservation reserva-tion will have a salutary effect upon the recalcitrants and may influence them to give up their fight against the government govern-ment officials. The commissioner today wired Agents Creel and Jenkins to continue, their efforts ef-forts to effect a peaceful solution of the Indian troubles, and tonight he paid that tiie situation looked hopeful. No steps had been taken, he said, toward having troops called to the aid of the civil authorities, au-thorities, and he believed it would not be necessary to employ them. |