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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 131 Eye." On their arrival there they handed their bridle reins to a young Indian to hold, while they went into the chief's tent. The chief at first seem-ed sullen and would not talk. Buchanan told him what they had come for, and finally the chief called for his pipe. Buchanan now knew that he would get a hearing, and finally the chief said that only one Indian and one white man were mad, and that if he and Cox would go with him he would get back the stock which the Indians had taken. The brethern named reported at Manti, but the people were not willing that they should go, be-lieving that the Indians were treacherous and were likely to kill them ; hence the venture was not made. After the Indians had taken the stock and killed Ludvigsen, they went to Salina canyon where they were joined by Indians from Richfield, and they quickly gathered up most of the Salina cattle and drove them up Salina canyon to Soldier Fork, where they came onto Barney Ward and James P. Ander-sen who, not knowing that the Indians were mad, fell an easy prey to them. It appeared that the Indians had held these two men prisoners for a time before killing them; they were both shot with many bullets and arrows and the condition in which their bodies were found suggested that they had been tortured. They were scalped and most of their clothing taken. Their bodies were not recovered until the next day. During the follow-ing night many white men arrived at Salina, from in the Sanpete settlement. The Indian Agent in Sanpete at the time was Fred J. Keisel, since mayor of Ogden whose pru-dence in withholding the supply of powder and lead |