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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 123 to try to scare us Howe had a wagon which he had made himself, the wheels being cut off the big end of a large red pine log. he worked oxen on this primitive wagon and we could hear the wagon squeak miles away. As Brother Rowe was coming with sup-plies late in the night, the Indian heard the wagon squeek again said Snakes. Conderset replied " na nini- montz- pege ' ' my father is coming. This was about ten or eleven o'clock in the night. As Rowe drove up, the Indian took Condersets hat and put on his own head and stood astradle of the fire. We did not understand why. Rowe looked at the Indian and said. " boys, he is here for no good." Conderset told his father what the Indian said about the In-dians killing eight men in Provo Canyon. Rowe began asking the Indian questions about it. The Indian said that it was eight sleep ya- tes, eight days since, holding up eight fingers. Rowe said, " You are mistaken, for if it was so, the papers would talk about it. ' ' The Indian became uneasy and want-ed to go to his saddle. Rowe said, " I will go with you." The Indian seemed willing that he should do so till he got his horse, when he said his horse's back was sore, which was very common with Indian horses. Rowe told the Indian that he would walk for he was anxious to keep the Indian with us all night. He also told the Indian that there would be ten men there by morning, and ten more later, word having reached Mount Pleasant, that the Indians intended making a raid on Thistle Valley. Upon hear-ing this the Indian became more eager to go than ever, he jumped on his horse and was gone, and we saw no more of him. Mr. Rowe remarked that trou-ble was brewing, and that we would have to shift |