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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 57 all speed to Salt Lake City. Barely escaping with their lives; they left their wagon, four horses, two mules, and the dead bodies of their companions be-hind them. Their savage assailants did not linger long in the neighborhood of the massacre, not even long enough to scalp or otherwise mutilate the dead, according to their custom. Taking the animals they hastily decamped, and though followed by an armed party from Salt Lake City, as soon as the news of the killing reached there, they were nowhere to be found, though diligently sought for in all the sur-rounding region. Another John Dickson, the spell-ing of whose name slightly differs from that of the i other man killed in Parley ' s Canyon, had been shot | by Indians near Snyder's Mill a short time before. The situation now became so serious that travel-ling from settlement to settlement, unless accom-panied by a strong guard, was extremely perilous. Though the Utah Indians had taken the initia-tive, other tribes or parts of tribes were also begin-ning to engage in the war, shooting and stealing I stock in various section of the Territory. Governor Young, on the 19th of August, issued a proclama-jtion forbidding the sale of fire- arms and ammuni-tion to the Utah Indians and callingupon the offi-cers of the militia in the several districts to hold their commands in readiness to march at any moment against the murderous marauders. Colonel George A. Smith returned to Salt Lake City from Iron County on the 22nd of August. He I reported that the southern settlements generally I were in an excellent state of defense, and that the inhabitants were on the alert in relation to the sava- |