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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 193 dians, we buried those that had been killed. Written at Parowan April 24th, 1914, by Cap-tain John Louder of Parowan, Iron County, Utah, on his 79th birthday. Copied by Peter Gottfredson. AMBUSCADE AT MARYSVALE, A. LEWIS AND C. CHEISTENSEN KILLED. On the night of April 21, 1866, Walter Barney and Sidney Wilson were on guard at the public cor-ral at Monroe, where most of their stock was en-closed. When on their usual rounds about midnight they saw a dark object lying by the fence. T! link-ing it was an animal that had been left out they went to put it in the corral ; but when within two rods of the object seen, two Indians jumped up and ran away. The guard shot at them with their revolvers. The Indians had been trying to dig out some pick-ets with their butcher knives in order to make an opening to let out the stock. Leaving the town going in a south- westerly direction they stopped at An-drew Rasmussen's corral and commenced shooting his cows, oxen, pigs and sheep with arrows; they carried away one sheep and dressed it at the head of the ditch where they left a butcher knife. Early the next morning messengers were sent to Richfield and Glenwood with the report. A company was im-mediately formed of men from Glenwood, Richfield and Monroe, with Dr. Elias Pierson of Glenwood in command. The company numbering twenty- one men left Monroe about midnight. The moon was shining brightly and they could see the tracks of the Indians in the road where they had dragged their |