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Show 196 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS one hundred and fifty in each as a means of safety and protection. THOMAS JONES KILLED AND WM. AVERY WOUNDED AT FAIRVIEW. PRESIDENT YOUNG ADVISES THE PEOPLE TO MOVE TOGETHER. While on picket guard near Fairview, Sanpete County, a Thomas Jones was killed and William Avery wounded, April 29, 1866. Hyrum Wilson was with them, sitting down engaged in reading, while the others were exercising themselves by jumping. Wilson got Avery on a horse and took him to where he thought him safe and there let him down where-upon he rode to town and reported. . Elias Cox, Wm. Zahriskie and some others went in pursuit of the Indians; they saw the murderers but did not overtake them. Colonel Eeddick Allred records the following in his journal: " The people in Sanpete had a Co- op herd of stock in Thistle Valley in charge of Noah T. Guyman who camped there in the valley together with his family. The Indians made a raid on Fair-view killing one man and wounding another. Fear-ing for the safety of the herd and family with it, I went into the valley with a company in the night, it being so dark that we could not see the man next to us in line. Thomas Coates of Mount Pleasant pi-loted us safely through; we found the family and stock safe and moved all into the settlement next day and delivered them to President J. A. Allred. The following day ( May 1st) President Brigham Young issued instructions to the people in Sanpete, Sevier and Piute Counties to move together, in bod- |
