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Show 19 Table fountain were persuaded to coree down and surrender. When ordered to lay down their Arras, they refused and were fired on by the Mormons and nearly all were killed. The remainder who tried to escape were pursued and cut down to a roan. On January Jlst, IS50, leaac Eigbee of Fort Utah reported at Bait L'Use that the Utah Valley Indiana had stolen 50 or 60 head of cattle and horses, threatening further depredations, and asking perraiasion to chastise them which was granted. A military expedition sot cut against them and in a few days routed the Indiana from Utah Valley, shooting all they could find. A large number of prisoners were taken, mostly women and children. They were placed in tents under Fort Utah until they could be diaperaed araong the families in the valley. But this attempt to civilize them was a failure for as soon as summer c?. r, e they fled to their mountain hoses. " Thus ended the first Indian Ear of Utah," says I Littell, Living Age, p. 532. 2 Bancr'- "* " » •>* » rt Hows, History of Utah, pp. 30fS- 209 3 StaaBbcuv Report, p. l^&, ft. A. |