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Show Three days' ride from thls agemy, for so Indiso, ~roul ab ring him to the leva-bed% It. was a time of watehfi~lneasw ith me, for I meant to detect, if possible, auy connec-tion, if there waa any, with thebelligerents. Onadw. I thiokiu Febrt~a'rv.C a ~ t s i nJo e, one of the faithfnl leaders on this reserve. brot~ght a 1vtrr.r to wxl 16; I t i r a , juet rcct~ivvd. I opened it stod ~'dundi t aix!~ed1 t.v t lm nilvo~t)oi\ \lit~toernocoar, ile old war-chic.ioi the l'i~ll-(Jrrs.~ U O \ P Ut o bb unfricutlly toward it" wbi~c*. 1 . 1 1 ~c o~~rcnorfs t he letter w-lro a fi.llown: " C:tptain Jua : Souw IctBirtns havu Irceo killed uver on Stem River, md I you want to runldnud briug houre of your hc3t men n1.d &o sce abont it." TLis oe<mrd to indicat~R 1110v~111ei llll tI I I I ~ B I ~ LwC~ t htl w Jf~doeil. As 80011 ad I read tlttl I G ~ ~ C tIo the ~ ~ l ~ t i ahien a,s ked n m if 1 \vould write x lrtter ior hilrl. 1 auhuetrd ik rho arErmnrivr,anst~ri~h~lngl J nottltl w~i rn\v ital lie d v ~ i f ~ d... T ~ ~ ~ u , BKPdiIvI- ~ , " mtvd Ill0 ea],tilin, ..you write old Wiuneu88lecl. that I h i n t lvat a!,). IlldiIIll~ and almU not eolrir." With thir 1,ttef lerrcr termiuarsd all r u n ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~n~.linrri:rtvl !10o r~llnl s wnr, on tlw p a ~ to f those \villi ~ I I L I I II II.AVL. 10 du ; itnd u<,lllirzg rc.ulcl p~.od!lcci8 1uru aorletr in tLwr mioda than the irrreruouo that the Ciovt,ru,nsnr believed rLcul in nus way adsociated with the var. * * One faot I think worthy of note. %hen I entereathiaofice, in the anperintendency of the Walker River and Pvrsmid Lake reservations. the Indiliadservice was in debt^ that su&ciant ruema wili be granted to oerry forward %his entdrprise to the da&$ a d , I am, very respectfully, your obedient aervant, C. A. BATEXAN, Didlea States Irrdials dpst&th, 7e?:ada. &on. EDWARDP. S x r r ~ . Comnbi~aiosao.f Ivdian Afail.8. . , |