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Show 54 Kanosh then married two women, Betsikin, a Camp Floyd follower, and Mary Huish, a girl who had been raised by white people by the name of Huish in Payson. They had bought her with a gun from an Indian who had captured and was torturing her, a common practice in those days in order for the Indians to arm themselves with the "sticks that spoke. " Mary was pretty, slim and aquiline, an excellent horsewoman, and Kanosh was proud of her, liked to ride with her up and down the streets of Kanosh. Betsikin was fat and Mongolian in feature. When Mary became pregnant Betsikin became very jealous of her, lured her into the hills on the ruse of drowning out squirrels. While Mary watched the hole and Betsikin carried water, Betsikin came up behind Mary, grasped her hair, tipped back her head and cut her throat. When Mary came up missing in the camp Kanosh sent runners to Payson and to Las Vegas in search of her. Even the white people were suspect, and very frightened, as they numbered only seventy-five, while Kanosh commanded an army of five hundred fighting braves. At last, however, a little dog sniffed out the body of Mary, which Betsikin had covered with brush. Confronted with the evidence, Betsikin confessed to the crime, a council was held and she was condemed to death. She was allowed to choose what kind and she took: "starve for die, " so the Indians built her a willow wickiup without windows or doors and she was placed in it, left alone until she died. Sally came into Kanosh's life after these tragedies. She was a little girl of about seven when the Pioneers came to Utah. A northern |