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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 25 The colonists entered the fort, which the Indians immediately surrounded and gave notice of their intention to massacre all the inmates. The next daysome of the chiefs interceded in behalf of the white men and the imprisoned colonists were permitted to return to their homes unmolested, with the understanding that the settlement should be abandoned and Grand Valley left in undisputed possession of the Utes. In the spring of 1858 James Miller and George M. Bright were killed and five others wounded by Indians, during an attack on the Salmon river settlement, which caused the abandonment of the colony. On June 4th of this year Xiels Jorgensen and wife, Jens Turkelsen and Christian E. Kjerluf were killed by a band of fourteen Sanpitch Indians, in Salt Creek canyon. October 5th Samuel Brown and Josiah Call were massacred by Indians on Chicken creek. These periodical attacks were kept up by marauding bands of Sanpitches and Utes, and no man was safe outside the settlements. James Hanahin, a deserter from the United States army, was killed by an Indian on August 7, 1860, near Manti, the savage firing upon him from ambush. In March, 1865, the Indians camped around Manti began to be very quarrelsome and insulting when in the presence of the colonists, and many threats were made indicating the desire for some pretext for war. On April 9th, John Lowry and others had a quarrel with Jake, one of the chiefs, about some cattle the Indians boasted This altercation was considered sufficient of stealing. provocation for declaring open hostilities, and Chief Black Hawk hurriedly assembled his warriors for the conflict. A party of men was sent out from Manti on the day following the disturbance, to collect the cattle for the purpose of ascertaining howr many had been Black Hawk and fifteen warriors fired upon the stolen. N. Billings. |
