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Show 312 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS a load of lumber and his little boy wounded in the hip and wrist. The man is said to be Miller from Salt Creek." It was generally believed that the Indians mis-took Mr. Miller for Bernard Snow, as they had the same kind of team, a gray and a bay mule, and Snow often had a boy with him. The Indians did not like Bernard Snow. In one of the raids on Ephraim Bernard Snow, the veteran actor who was building a mill at the mouth of the canyon near the settlement sustained during several hours a lonely but heroic siege; the savages surrounded the mill, but the gallant de-fender kept up a fire so vigorous that they were forced to retire. ( Copied from Whitney's History of Utah.) GENERAL MORROWS RECOMENDATION TO INDIAN AGENT DODGE. INDIANS GO TO WASHINGTON TO IN-TERVIEW PRESIDENT GRANT. This was the last serious raid made by the hos-tiles, and matters soon quieted down to their normal condition. The settlers had suffered more severely than they otherwise would have done both in loss of life and property because of the proclamation of Governor Shafer, and Acting Governor Black, pro-hibiting the assembling of the militia. Governor Woods refused to rescind that order when applied to in July of the same year, even to enable the peo-ple to defend themselves. Of the action of tjie citizens in obeying the edict of the Executive, Gen-eral Morrow said in his report to Indian agent, |