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Show 250 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS ces connected with the raid on Mr. Handley's cattle at that time. By request of Commander James D. Shanks. Adjutant Lindsey sends an account of an incident which happened in conection with the second expedi-tion from Provo Valley. After delivering the sup-plies to the Indians, part of the company decided to come back to Heber by way of the short cut, or Indian trail. Captain Wm. M. Wall, Charles H. Wilcken, Nymphus C. Murdock, George Bonner, Jos. McCarrel, Ira Jacobs and Wm. Gallagher and two or three others were in this company. This route led them down Lake Creek Canyon which is east of Heber and runs to the ridge between this Valley and the old Reservation, scouts were kept on this ridge all through the summer. The day before these men came over the ridge the scouts came to Heber and re-ported that they had seen Indians encamped in a grove near the head of Lake Creek. Twelve men on foot were sent out that night with orders to get well up into the canyon before day light to surround the Indians. They reached the appointed place by nine or ten o ' clock a. m. and exa-mined the grove. They saw no Indians, but found a fresh trail leading down towards Heber. This company consisted of W. B. Sessions, Isaac Baum, John and Geo. Muir, Jesse Bond, Lewis Mec-ham, Thos. Handley, G. A. Wilson, Dickson Green and three others. After following the trail three miles, they came onto what they supposed were In-dians, lying in a sort of grassy and shadj- place, and without waiting for orders two of the men fired. The result was that N. C. Murdock was grazed by a Imllet on his left wrist and shot in the right leg. |