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Show 294 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS principal chiefs of the Navajoes. When winter was over the scenes of trouble was shifted farther north ; and while the majority of the savages were friendly to the settlers, a portion of them seemed bent on mischief. This was partly an effect of the war-like feeling exhibited at that time by hostile tribes generally throughout the country. Under these circumstances, Special Indian Agent, G. W. Dodge, early in 1872, sought to redress the grievances complained of by the Indians and distributed large quantities of flour, beef, and other supplies among them. The unruly ones, however, be-came more insolent with the efforts to pacify them, and levied a burdensome tax upon the settlements in central Utah by their persistent begging and stealing. On the 16th of June in a raid by a band of Shiberetch Indians upon Twelve Mile Creek, San-pete County, Niels C. Heiselt, Jr., of Pleasant Grove Utah County, was killed. The next two months wit-nessed a series of depredations in which several white men were shot and a large number of stock driven off. From friendly Indians it was learned that the hostiles were mostly members of unorganiz-ed bands such as the Capotas, Magoots and Elk Mountain Utes. During the period when the major portion of these outrages were committed, several hundred In-dians were paying friendly visits to the settle-ments in Sanpete, Sevier, Juab and Utah counties. As some of them moved about in small companies, there was difficulty in distinguishing -\ vhich of the roving bands were hostile. ColoneJ Dodge endea-vored to simplify the situation by having all peace- |