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Show 100 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS ambushed us in Bannock Canyon about thirty miles southwest of where Pocatello now stands. We fought them from two o'clock p. m. until after sun down when they pulled off and left us. We had one man killed Bailey Lake of Ogden three saddle horses shot and we lost all our pack animals with our sup-plies and one extra horse, nineteen head in all. Our loss was not less than $ 1,500.00. We were one hundred miles from any settlement and two men were without horses to ride. We traveled this distance in forty- eight hours without food or rest. The names of those in this party were Franklin Cummings, George W. Hill, Baldwin H. Watts, Bai-ley Lake, who was killed, Thomas Bingham, George Barber, Thomas Blocksom, John B. Blanchard, J. T. Workman and one other whose name I have for-gotten. The last of the company arrived on April 20th and we were honorably discharged after having been out forty days. ( Signed) F. A. Miller, Parker, Fremont County, Idaho. July 2nd, 1906. THE TINTIC WAR. In the year 1856, the Indians, a part of the Utes, again beeaone hostile, and a sufficient number of them went on the war path to make it expensive, and annoying to the settlers. The Indians were stealing cattle and horses in Utah and Cedar Valleys and a sub- chief of the Utes named Tintic was the ring- leader of the hostiles, some of whom dwelt in a valley subsequently called Tintic, and others in Ce-dar Valley; both of these valleys lies west of Utah |