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Show 306 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS directions. Further pursuit would have been fruit-less. They found some horses which the Indians had ridden till they gave out; they were left along the trail. DAN MILLER KILLED AND SON WOUNDED NEAR SPRING CITY. The following sketch of the last killing of a white man by Indians during the Black Hawk up-rising, was originally prepared by Peter Gottfred-son, of Richfield, for the local paper, about 1882. The last man killed in the Indian Wars of Utah was Daniel Miller of Nephi, Juab County. The tra-gedy took place on the morning of the 26 of Septem-ber, 1872, at Snow and Douglas ' saw mill, in Oak Creek Canon, Sanpete County, three miles east of Spring City. The mill had shut down about a month before, it being considered unsafe to work there be-cause of Indians, but William Higbee stayed there as watchman. I had a contract to get out a bill of lumber to finish a new school house which was being built in the Second District at Mount Pleasant, and Thomas Gledhill, my brother- in- law, sixteen years old, was helping me. I was working three yoke of oxen, getting logs to the mill to be sawed on shares. Mil-ler was building a house at Nephi, and he and his son, ( Dan M. Miller), thirteen years of age, was working a pair of mules getting out logs for lum-ber to finish his house. All told, there were five of us at the mill. The 26th of September, 1872, was Saturday. We were all going home except Higbee. The house in which we camped was about two hundred yards be- |
