Show what tale red skins cost NEW YORK sali A washington special says the commission appointed for ahe ic relief of sufferers su ereis by indian hostilities in minnesota relfort reported ed that twenty one hundred and forty claims were presented and examined the claims amounted to nearly two and a half million dollars and alid a number of others but the commission did not examine them for want of time the commission was awarded one million ahlee hundred and seventy thousand the two hundred thousand appropriated last session for immediate belief of the most needy bufferdis buffer lu orcas cis was paid to over fourteen bundled persons many of whom made widows or orphans by the indians neatly neally witnesses were examined their testimony covering about sixteen thousand sheets of legal cap the testimony shows that over eight hundred men women and chil children dien were butche butchered led by the indians thousands were driven aiom their homesteads and ale aie now refugees it being unsafe to return to the frontiers it is estimated that five millions will not 1 leim zimbul buiso so the people for the damage done the government holds millions of annuities forfeit forfeited od by the 1 eb ellious sioux and it is proposed to use this sum ment of tho the above claims |