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Show CHAPTER II. THE BLACK HAWK WAR. TREATY AT MANTI. THE JOHN LOWRY AFFAIR. Several stories are told as to how the Black Hawk war started, and these stories conflict in sev-eral essentials. It is well known that many of the Indians, were dissatisfied and unfriendly, and that during the years 1863 and 1864 they had committed several acts unfriendly towards the white people; thus they had stolen some horses and killed a num-ber of cattle, at different places, and it needed but a pretext to open hostilities. During the winter of 1864- 65, a small band of Indians were camped near Gunnison, Sanpete Co. It is said that they had contracted small- pox, and that many of them died. The Indians seemed to think that the white people were to blame in some way for this and were threatening to kill the whites and steal their horses and cattle. Arrangements were consequently made for a meeting between the Indians and the whites at Manti on the 9th of April, 1865, to talk over mat-ters. On that date a number of prominent Utes came to Manti. They met at Jerome Kempton's place, and it appeared that an understanding would be arrived at, but a young chief ( Yene- wood) also known as Jake Arropeen could not be pacified ; he kept talking- |