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Show 274 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS ed Wm. Blain slightly. When we arrived at Eph-raim we received a telegram from Mount Pleasant giving the news of the raid, and we joined Captain Louis Larsen's Minute men who later joined men from Springtown and Mount Pleasant under Colonel Ivie. But the Indians had made good their escape into the mountains, taking only the horses from the herd. We purseud them to the top of the Horse shoe Mountain after exchanging a few shots with them. The " Deseret News" of August 28, 1867, pub-lished an account of an interview which Superin-tendent Head of Indian affairs, who had just re-turned from the Uintah Reservation where he had met and had a talk with the notorious chief, Black Hawk, who came there with his family, unattended by his braves. Black Hawk said he had 28 lodges under his sole control, and that he was assisted by three Elk Mountain chiefs who each had ten or twelve lodges with him. These Indians were scat-tered all along the valleys from the north of Sc-. n-pete county to the southern settlements, watching opportunities to make raids. Nevertheless he ex-pressed a personal desire for peace and said that inasmuch as the others looked to him as head chief, he thought he could influence them to bury the hat-chet and perhaps consent to a conference with Super-intendent Head in the near future. He declared he had made a covenant when he commenced to fight that he would not have his hair cut, and that he had found much fault with Tabby and Kanosh, who had had theirs cut like the white men. Now that he was w'. Un. i? to make peace, however, he |
