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Show INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS 149 there I drove them into a corral and pulled out the arrows, after which I drove them to Richfield. When I arrived home I learned that a lot of men were out hunting for me and the stock, fearing that I had been killed somewhere in the brush. Some of the men fol-lowed the tracks of the stock the way I had gone; others were hunting for me in the river bends. Most of them stayed out all day and came home hungry and tired. When they learned that I had been home since before noon they were cross and thought that I should be punished for not coming home to report the stock gone, instead of following them. Major Higgins notified me to appear in the evening before what was called a court martial. I did so and told my story. I remember that some of the men sug-gested that I should stand some extra guard as a penalty for my foolishness. Major Glaus Peter An-dersen said, I motion we let him go ; I have done such foolish tricks myself. They let me go unpunished. During the summer a company of about twelve teams went to Andersen's Canyon, south of Monroe, after timber, in care of Major Andersen; this man had been a major in General Johnston's Army, which was sent to Utah in 1857 and he had also belonged to a company of rangers in Texas previous to joining the army. In the evening, at the campfire, I asked Major Andersen to tell us one of his fool tricks to which he consented by relating the following : On a certain occasion while I was doing military service in Texas, some Indians took five of the rangers prisoners and carried them away with them. It was in the after-noon, too late for the company to follow, but I and another man volunteered to follow the Indians. We |