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Show 54 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS cavalry, under Colonel Conover and Lieutenant Markham, at once set out for Manti. These move-ments were doubtless in accordance with orders from headquarters. General Daniel H. Wells, at Salt Lake City, having been apprised of the situation, had dis-patched Lieutenant- Colonel William H. Kimball with a hundred mounted men to join Colonel Conover at Payson. Meantime, simultaneous attacks had been made by Indians at various points. At Springville, in a second assault upon that set-tleiment, William Jolley was shot and wounded in the arm. At Nephi, in Juab County, cattle were stolen and the guard fired upon, while similar depredations were committed at Pleasant Creek and Manti in San-pete County. ( This was July 19th.) On July 20th the Guard at Nephi, Juab County, was fired upon by Indians. Colonel Conover, on reaching Sanpete, left some of his men at each settlement to protect it against the Indians, who were now raiding and running off stock in all directions. Arriving at Manti and secur-ing that place against attack, Conover ' s command divided and companies were sent out to scour the surrounding country in quest of redskins. One of these detachments, under Lieutenant- Colonel Jabez Nowlin, who it will be remembered was wounded in the two days ' fight at Provo, came upon a band of twenty or thirty Indians near Pleasant Creek on the 23rd of July. Being hailed by an interpreter and asked if they were friends or foes, the savages admitted that they were enemies, and without wait-ing to be attacked fired upon the troopers. Nowlin then ordered a charge, and the Indians, after the |