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Show 248 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS N. C. Murdock's team, Ben. A. Norris, driver, John W. Witts team, Willard Carroll driver, Hyrum Oakes, team, Isaac 0. Wall, driver. This Platoon and outfit was gone ten days. They were corralled four day in a log cabin sur-rounded by three hundred " to- buck" ( angry) In-dians, who didn't want the cattle but wanted Mor-mon scalps. The agent prevailed on the Indians to let them go. On July 8th, 1866, a second expedition was sent to the reservation with Indian supplies. Following are the names of the parties, con-stituting this expedition : Major John Hamilton, Lieut. Joseph McCarroll ( infantry), Adjutant Charles WilMn, Capt. Wm. M. Wall, lieut. Wm. McDonald, and Privates Nym-phus C. Murdock, George Giles ( blacksmith) William Gallagher, Joseph Thomas, George F. Giles, Henry Luke ( interpreter) Albert McMullen, John Harvey, Jr., James Allred, Richard Jones, Wm. M. Giles, Mo-roni Duke, James Shanks, commissary for the expe-dition and Privates Ira N. Jacobs, George Boner, James B. Hamilton, A. Thompson and Emanuel Richman ( teamster.) This expedition numbering 23 men was gone eight days, from the 8th to the 16th of July. While this party was over at the Reservation a raid was made on Thomas Handley's corral, in Heber City, where Indians took two oxen and a hei-fer. This raid will be explained as the raid in which Jas. A. Ross and others figured. |