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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 43 rock. The child was twenty months and six days old at the time of its death. Williams then killed Squash- - head by cutting his throat with a case- knife which he had brought in with the Indian's breakfast. At the time of the tragedy the child's parents lived at Moun-tainville ( now called Alpine), Utah County. ' The writer was a brother of the child who was killed. Geo. McKenzie, assistant- adjutant general of the Utah County War Veterans, said, after read ing the above that it was written by some one who did not fully understand the whole matter. Don C. Johnson says : ' l Squash Head killed him-self in the absence of Alex Williams and that it happened in Bishop Johnson ' s house. ' ' CAUSE AND ORIGIN OF THE WALKER WAR. By Geo. McKenzie. Having been requested by State commander J. M. Westwood of the Utah Indian War Veterans As-sociation to write up the cause of the ' l Walker War, ' ' having been a resident of Springville at the time, and being well acquainted with James Ivie, who was the principal actor in the drama that caused the war, I submit the following as told to me by Ivie at the time, and on several occasions since the war. Walker, the war chief of the Ute nation, with his braves and their families were camped on Spring creek about one mile north of the present town of Springville, ( Utah Co., Utah) all at peace with the white settlers, spending their time fishing and hunting, and trad-ing and begging from the people. James Ivie, at |
