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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 259 casion. The Indian with the blanket was wounded and ran to the hills, and the savages reached a creek later called Indian creek, where they made a stand and fought for some time. It was amusing to see J. K. Peterson maneuver, he would dodge around here and there and when he saw an oppor-tunity he would squat down and fire, throw himself down on his back, while reloading, and get up again to repeat the performances. Some of the men kept the Indians back, while the younger boys drove the stock to town. About a dozen men came out from town to meet those who had been out and helped to rdrive the stock in. Some Indians rode out onto the point of the hill, and the white horse Chief ' ' Shena- vegan. ' ' rode around encouraging his braves The boys picked him out for a target and ran him to cover. John Frankum, whose gun was out of com-mission, obtained another gun from a boy ( Tom Goff ) and together with some others went up to-wards the Indians on the hill. Here Frankum was shot through one shoulder which disabled him, but Hans. J. Gottfredson assisted him to reach town. The Indians finally pulled off into the hills, but got away with a few horses and a mule or two. One of the mules belonging to Peter Oldroyd. It was recovered at the Spring City fight the next fall. After the skirmish and recovery of the stock, George Crowther of Monroe, who had been working on the Glenwood Fort for Peter Oldroyd, started for home. Archibald T. Oldroyd and some of the other boys who had been in the fight started with him to escort him part way, and when they reached the dug-way on the hill near Glenwood they found the wagon, and the murdered people. It appeared that when the |