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Show 36 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS " Mormon " leader to obtain his permission to engage in a campaign against the Shoshones, in which Wal-ker wished some of the young men of Provo to join. Governor Young would not listen to such a thing, and again advised the warlike chief to cease fight-ing and bloodshed. Walker retunied to Utah Val-ley in a rage. Gathering his band, he was about to fall upon the fort, when Sowiette, the white man's friend, again interposed to thwart him. He not only warned the inmates, who flew to arms, but told Wal-ker that he with his band would help the fort against him. Walker again gave way, and for several years warred elsewhere, not molesting the i l Mormon ' ' set-tlements. The late Bishop Henson Walker of Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah, related an incident that occurred at the battle at Provo, in which he formed a conspicuous figure. He said: " I shot at an In-dian sixteen times from behind a log. To do him jus-tice, he was equally active. There we were, both under cover blazing away at each other, when neither showed even a part of his body. But I had the last shot. He stuck out too much of his head and never got back." Copied from ' ' Deseret News ' ' Vol. 1 : One white man by the name of Baker was killed by Indians on the 29th of May, 1850, between Utah and Sanpete Valleys. The following summer a successful expedition was undertaken by a company of volunteer ( cavalry) under Captain George D. Grant, against the Goshute Indians, a band of renegades who for some time had been stealing stock and committing murders in Tooele Valley and the surrounding region. Their |