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Show INDIANS NT.lltVI.VG-. Tbey IlreeWe Only Rations Enouch Tor I wo Hays oTIIle Week. Chicago, Dec. 11. General Miles today received a report from Captain Cap-tain Conrad to the effect that seveu-teeu seveu-teeu hundred Indians at tbe Yankton Yank-ton Sioux agency are now receiving rations enough for merely two day out of a week and are Bt-trving. Their crops havu failed, and, although al-though they are willing to work, there i- no employment for such a number during the winter. Ou ration diy they are so farcis'ied that Ihey cannot resist ia:ln at once practically all they receive, notwithstanding another issue is not due for a week. Itisastauding complaint with these Indians that they have IT50 owing them for rlght-af-woy of land locked up in thu Treasury at Washington, and individuals among them are uu-lald'for uu-lald'for servites tendered tbe gov-1 eminent as far back as lbG'J. I No Dantrerornn OnlbrenU. RiSMAKCK, S.D., Dec 11. Major Mclaughlin, agent at Standing Rock Agency, i iu today. Hcsays there is no clanger of an outbreak aad never has Ik-cu. Sitting Hull and his folura era are still keeping up the ghost daueeon Grand River, but thinks a week more of cold ' t lather will stop the dancing. Hu says tlie reports from Standing Rock of a cattle stampede by Indians and an exchangu of shots ntarlluffalo Gap is a canard. Xo cattle have been run off by the Indians, only their own stock. Ireltelins an IprNlnc. Kansas City, Dec. II. Surgeon Von Leultwltzfofthe United States army, is In tlie city from Fort Rene; Hu says dancing Is still going on among the uncivilized Indians, but no one is particularly alarmed at it. He predicts a great uprbing in the spring. There are WOO young tucks in Indian Territory who are eager or glory, and the old chiefs encour- age them. |