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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 103 senger was sent to notify Deputy Marshal Tom Johnson who came immediately with the remainder of the posse. That night the Indians killed two boys, by the name of Henry Moran and William Carson who were herding sheep on the west side of Utah Lake. The next morning the posse foUowed the trail of the Indians who left during the ni& l- t, and found them camped on the side of a mountain in the cedars on the east side of Bush Valley. A parley was held, but the Indians refused to sur-render and fired upon the posse. It being late in the evening the Deputy Marshal deemed it wise to re-turn to the fort with the intention to pursue the next day ; but in the morning they found the Indian camp broken up and the Indians going in a direction where they would be overtaken by Colonel Conover ' s com-pany, the posse gave up the pursuit, turned attention to the security of the settlements, and in searching for the other two, Moran and Carson and young Hun-saker, a thirteen year old boy whom the Indians had also killed; they found them where the Indians had killed them. Meantime, Governor Young had given orders to Colonel Peter W. Conover to raise a company of the Utah County Militia, pursue the In-dians and recover the Hunsaker herd of stock which had been driven off after killing the herds- men. Ac-cordingly, Col. Conover, with eighty men pursued, crossed the Utah lake on ice, and took the trail of the Indians where they crossed the mountains. The company pursued all day and camped in Tintic Valley, just out of the mouth of a canyon. On the second day the pursuing party came so close upon the Indians in the lower end of Tintic Valley that they took fright and left the stock behind ex- |