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Show That Dakota Indian Land. . Washington, February 4. To-day Commissioner Com-missioner Sparks wrote to the Surveyor-General Surveyor-General of Dakota in reply to his request for authority to make a survey of the lands situated sit-uated in the region lying north and west of Devil's Lake, that in view of the claim of the Turtle Mountain Indians to this land and that the whole question will be submitted sub-mitted to Congress for requisite legislation for a regular extinguishment of the Indian title, that the surveys within this district should be suspended. He is directed to award no more contracts embracing lands situated therein, and all such contracts now pending will be indefinitely suspended. |