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Show 42 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS attacked a band of Indians and killed nine of them. The outbreak ended as usual with such affairs. The barbarians wasted away, and a miserable remnant was glad to make peace on any terms. " ( Tullidge's Histories, Col. II, pp. 3- 85.) DEATH OF SQUASH- HEAD. The following was written by J. C. Lemmon at Ferron, Aug. 6, 1906 : ' ' James Lemmon was killed by an Indian called Squash- head about the middle of May, 1851. Mother was helping father to plant beans, when a neighbor came to borrow a wash- tub and board ; the man had a little girl with him. After giving the man the tub, she returned to help father in the lot and did not notice that James followed them and that in cross-ing the ditch by the fence he fell in and was swept down by the stream in the opposite direction. The child must have gone down the ditch about a quarter of a mile when Squash- head happened along and found the child and made off with him. " When the alarm was given, all turned out to hunt, but no trace of the child could be found. Some time after-wards, however, the Indian commenced to brag about it, in consequence of which he was arrested and taken to Provo. He broke away, but was caught again by Joseph Kelly between Spanish Fork and Springville and lodged in a house belonging to Bis-hop Johnson. While Alex Williams was guarding him he told how he killed the child. He had tortured the little one by taking off its toes and fingers, and finally finished his brutal work by taking him by the heels and smashing the back of its head on a |