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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 17 butcher knives and fire brands. All the fleshy parts of her body, legs and arms had been hacked with knives, then fire brands had been stuck into the wounds. She was gaunt with hunger and smeared from head to foot with blood and ashes. After being scrubbed and clothed, she was given to Pres. Brigham Young and became as one of his family. They named her Sally, and her memory has ben perpetuated by the " Courtship of Kanosh, a Pioneer Indian Love Story, " written by my gifted cousin, Susa Young Grates. But Susa gave us only the courtship, while the ending of Sally's life, as told to me by a man from Kanosh, was as tragic as her childhood days had been thrilling. After she married Kanosh, several years of her life passed pleasantly in the white man's house which he built for her. Then her Indian hus-band took to himself another wife, who became jeal-ous of Sally and perhaps hated her also for her white man's ways. One day when they were in a secluded place dig-ging segoes, the new wife murdered Sally and buried the body in a gully. When Kanosh missed her, he took her track and followed it as faithfully as a blood hound could have done, and was not long in finding the grave. In his grief he seized the murderess and would have burned her at the stake but white men interfered. In due time the Indian woman confessed her guilt and, in harmony with Indian justice, offered to expiate her crime by starving herself to death. The offer was accepted, and on a lone hill in sight of the village, a " wick- i- up" was constructed of dry timber. Taking a jug of water, the woman |
