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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 111 COLONEL CONNOR'S COMMAND START TO BEAR RIVER. On the 19th of January, 1863, a miner named William Bevins made affidavit before Chief Jus-tice John F. Kinney in Salt Lake City to the effect that about ten days previous, he and party number-ing eight men, who were on their way to the Grass-hopper Gold Mines in Dakota were attacked in Cache Valley by Indians and one of their number killed. He also reported that another party of ten miners enroute to Salt Lake City had been assaulted and murdered by the same Indians, in the same locality. Upon this information warrants for the arrest of three of the chiefs were issued and placed in the hands of the United States Marshal Isaac L. Gibbs, who, realizing that resistance would be of-fered, laid the matter before Colonel Connor. Three days later a company of Infantry with two how-itzers started for the camp of the hostiles, and on Sunday evening the 25th, four companies of cavalry, under command of Colonel Connor himself followed. Marshal Gibbs accompanied the expedition, though with what purpose is not clear, as the mission and intent of the troops was to summarily punish, and not merely to arrest the savages for the various crimes and depredations of which they were ac-cused. The Colonel in his report said he informed the Marshal that all arrangements for the expedi-tion were already made, and that the civil process had little to do with it is evident from the Colonel's further remarks : being satisfied that they ( the In-dians) were part of the same band who had been murdering emigrants on the overland mail route |