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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 287 MHfiiiiutimitmitiNitii miiiiiiiMiiiiiuMMiiMiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii MI..... I, ...,,,,., ,.,,,, ,,,,,,,,. 1.1 had saved his life on the mountain when he was sick. In appreciation he had now saved father's life. James 0. Ivie. SKIRMISH AT EPHRAIM, BATTLE AT ROCK LAKE. July llth, the Ephraim horse- herd was driven to feed about two miles southeast of town, on the south side of Willow Creek Wash; they were in care of James P. Christenseii, Sr., John Tompson and Sam Beal, an Indian who lived with the set-tlers. N. 0. Anderson and Andrew Overdale passed the horse- herd and went to the mouth of Willow Creek Canyon after wood ; they heard some shouting as if someone was driving cattle. They thought it might be men with ox- teams after wood, but it proved to be Indians driving animals which they had gathered up in the morning before the horse-herd came out. Anderson and Overdale began get-ting their loads of wood, when they heard some talking and thought it was a scouting party, but it proved to be Indians who came out into a clearing and approched to within thirty yards of them. The men being behind some trees were not seen by the Indians who were making for the horse- herd. The two men ran onto a hill south of the cedars, about a half mile from the herd, and saw the Indians and the three herds- men in battle for possession of the horses. The fight lasted about fifteen minutes, when the herders succeeded in getting most of the horses started for town. The Indians, however, cut out a few which they succeeded in getting into the hills |
