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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 59 WILLIAM HATTON KILLED WHILE STANDING GUARD AT FILLMORE. Still the Indian war went on. At Fillmore, on the 13th day of September, William Hatton, while standing guard, was shot and killed by the savnges Pah- vants who, catching from the Utes the infec-tion of the hour, had begun stealing and killing in that locality. COL. MARKHAM'S BRUSH AT GOSHEN. C. B. HANCOCK WOUNDED. On September 26th, Colonel Steven Markham and his men had a brush with the redskins near Go-shen, Utah County, in which C. B. Hancock wae> wounded, and a number of Indians killed. Six days later, in another skirmish at Nephi, eight more sav-ages were slain and two or three captured. THE GUNNISON MASSACRE. Copied from ( Lights and Shadows of Mormonism) by J. F. Gibbs. ' ' The attention of the traveler on the road from Deseret, Millard County, Utah to Nevada, will very likely be drawn toward a cedar post that occupies an unusual position a few rods north of the Sevier Eiver, and a hundred feet from the east side oP a shallow lake. The place, which covers about ten acres is about six miles west of Deseret, Millard County, Utah, with no habitation within several miles. The rough bark has been removed from the post, other-wise there is nothing in its appearance to attract at-tention except its isolated position. Yet, the spot over which that solitary post stands sentinel is his- |