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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 185 Illlllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllt to Ms friends and tell them to go away, or he would shoot him without any further talk; one other In-dian came out. They seized both of them, tied their hands behind them and marched them in front of the company until morning, when they had reached a good road in an open country. They then bound the Indians over to keep the peace and turned them loose. These Indians were two of the meanest sav-ages in that country at the time ; the rest of the trip was uneventful. On receiving the report of the trip Brother Snow he was pretty well acquainted with Indian history, but that move out of Long Valley was the best plann-ed, and showed the best generalship of any he had heard of. ". RAID ON SALINA, THREE TEAMS ATTACKED, COW HERD TAKEN, HERDER KILLED. Black Hawk with thirty mounted iollowers in-tercepted three teams from Glenwood Sevier Coun-ty, April 13, 1866, about a mile north of Salina, on their way to the States after emigrants. They were Seth Wareham, Joseph Herring and John Wasden ; The teamsters escaped and got to Salina, but their teams, consisting of nine yoke of oxen, were taken by the Indians and the things in their wagons either carried away or demolished. A sheep herder from Fairview, Sanpece County named Johnson was killed in the foot hills northeast of Salina town. Emil Nielsen of Salina says, " I was helping to herd the Salina cow- herd while the men were employed building a fort. We were on the west |