| OCR Text |
Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 16 semi-circle 'round the colonists, remaining- during the They proudly exhibited their trophies of war, held frequent scalp dances and forced the squaws and children prisoners to dance with the scalps of their kindred attached to poles, being significant of humbleness. While thus being amused, Chief Walker and his leading men would tantalize the colonists and threaten to treat them in a similar manner. These fiendish orgies would be kept up all night long, while the small colony of white people slept not knowing but that they would never year. awaken. President Brigham Young visited the colony in August, 1850, and christened the town Manti, in honor of one of the notable cities mentioned in the Book of Mormon, and the county he called Sanpete, after the Indian tribe then inhabiting this section, the chief of whom was Sanpitch. A log schoolhouse was erected under the direction of Isaac Morley, afterward known as "Father Morley/' and Jesse W. Fox was installed as the pioneer teacher. He was soon followed by Mrs. Mary Whiting, and the children were furnished the best opportunities an education that the primitive colonists could afford. Soon after the visit of President Young a small grist mill Avas erected in the canyon east of the city by Phineas W Cook, the capital being furnished by President Young and Father Morley. The only mill in for obtaining T . use previous to this was a mammoth coffee grinder, which was passed about, from house to house as needed. The act of Congress organizing Utah Territory was approved September 9, 1830, and Brigham Young was appointed Governor. A provisional form of government was instituted and Isaac Morley and Charles Shumway represented Sanpete county in the first Legislative Assembly. That legislature met in Salt Lake City, and passed an act incorporating Manti City, which was ap- |
