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Show 18 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS walked silently toward her living grave. Like the rejected swan, alone, unloved, in low tones she sang her own sad requiem, until her voice was hushed in death. One night when the evening beacon fire was not seen by the villagers, a runner was dispatched to fire the wick- i- up and retribution was complete. Sally's funeral had taken place only a few days previous. Over a hundred vehicles followed the re-mains to its last resting place, and beautiful floral wreaths covered the casket ; for Sally had been wide-ly loved among the white settlers for her gentle ways. Young's Manuscript page 45, copied at Historian's Office Toy H. H. Jenson. 1849. FEB. 28th, FIRST BATTLE WITH INDIANS IN UTAH, AT BATTLE CEEEK. Copied from records in the L. D. 8. Historian's Office. A report having reached Salt Lake City that some renegade Indians were molesting the settlers, a company of thirty or forty men under Captain John Scott left Salt Lake City Feb. 28, 1849, in pur-suit of some Indians who had been stealing and kill-ing cattle and running off horses from Willow Creek ( Draper) and other places. The company proceeded to Utah Valley and met Little Chief and his band of Timpanogos Utes on the Provo River who told the military boys where the thieving Indians were en-camped. The company left the Provo river in the night, taking with them as guide Little Chief's son who led them over the Provo Bench toward the creek ( Battle Creek) north of the base of the mountains, |