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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 55 first fire, broke and fled, leaving six or seven of their number dead upon the field. Nowlin's com-pany sustained no loss. Colonel Conover now dispatched messengers to request further orders from General Wells. The messengers sent were Clark Roberts of Provo, and John W. Berry of Spanish Fork. Leaving Manti in the afternoon on the 23rd, they reached Summit Creek Santaquin in Utah County, next morning. They found the place deserted, the settlers, fearing attack and massacre, having sought safety at Payson. As the messengers rode through the town they were fired upon by twenty- one Indians concealed in some houses. Berry was shot in the left wrist, and Roberts through the shoulder. Putting spurs to their horses they rode at full speed toward Payson, hotly pur-sued by the Indians, from whom, however, they suc-ceeded in escaping. " COLONEL GEORGE A. SMITH GIVEN COMMAND OF THE MILITIA. On the 25th of July, Colonel George A. Smith was given command of all the militia in the Territory south of Salt Lake, with instructions to take pro- mpt and thorough measures for the defense and safety of the various settlements. The policy he was di-rected by Governor Young to pursue was to gather all the inhabitants into forts, corralling their stock and surrounding it with armed guards. No acts of retaliation or offensive warfare upon the red men were to be permitted; but on the contrary a concilia-tory course towards them was to be maintained. At the same time vigilant watch was to be kept, and such Indians as were caught attempting to steal or |