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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 155 On Thursday, 8th, the President and party, in-cluding Elder George Q. Cannon, left Payson about half past nine in the morning for the farm. INDIAN ETIQUETTE. As the company approached the farm, a small part of Indians stationed on a rising ground, notified the main body of the fact, and in a few minutes after the party arrived the Indians came gently sauntering down on horseback, seemingly en-deavoring to keep up an appearance of dignity. All the chiefs were present except Sanpitch, who had taken suddenly indisposed to attend the meeting or be a participant in signing the treaty. After a few brief and pertinent remarks by Col. Irish, the chiefs manifested their willingness to sign, and attach their marks to the documents. Old Sau- e- ett as the oldest chief leading; Kanosh, by his manner, seemed to think that simply putting his mark to the paper was rather small business. I afterwards learned that he prided himself somewhat on his ability to write his name, a very laudable source of pride, for, as is well known, Indians gen-erally are in much the same condition of ignorance with regard to caligraphy, that the mailed knights of Christendom mostly were who bore the banner of the cross against the Saracens to rescue Palestine from their infidel hands. THE TALE AFTERWARDS. Col. Irish pointed out to them that if they lived up to the conditions of the treaty, they might date the commencement of a career of prosperity from |
