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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 157 that night. He had a large brindle dog, which growl-ed several times during the night, as if something was prowling around. Next morning ( July 14th) he started for home. He soon reached a point im-mediately west of the Gravely Ford, where two washes come together, the road crossing just below them. The Indians had made some small brush piles on the low ridge between where the two washes came together. There they lay with their gun- barrels through the brush piles pointing towards the road on the brink of the wash, where they could not be observed. When Brother Robinson got within about thirty feet of them, they fired, and he fell back on his flour dead. One of the oxen was also killed, while the other ox broke the yoke in the middle and got away; he was found about two weeks afterwards in a larke willow patch, carrying half of the yoke. The Indians also killed the dog. The people of Monroe were waiting for Robinson ' s return as the town was out of flour. When his remains were found it was discovered that the Indians had scalped him, that they had taken what flour they could carry away and then turned the balance out of the sacks over his body. They had taken the sacks and all his other things, gun, pistol, bedding, etc., away with them. The evening previous Jake Harris of Glenwood and Robert Gillispie of Mount Pleasant were hunting some horses south of Salina. As they were crossing a dry hollow, about one half a mile north of Lost Creek, Indians fired on them from ambush, shooting Gillispie in the back. Harris who was walking, beside him, leading his horse, ran to the river close by; he claimed that he ran so close by some Indians that he could have |