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Show INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS 121 line.. It passed in front of Rasmus, just over the horn of his saddle. We then all rode up to Jake an< l Rasmus said, " If I had my pistol here, I would shoot you, you son of a B . ' ' While Jake was load-ing his gun as fast as he could, we put spurs to our horses and rode to James Sanford Allred and told him what Jake Arrapeen had done. Brother Allred told us Jake was mad and would kill some one. The Indians went up the canyon, we could see their dust, and that was the last time that I ever saw Jake Arrapeen. My object in writing a sketch of this kind is to show that while there was not really a war on, at that time, it was plain that the Indians could not be depended upon. HERDSMAN C. C. ROWE IN THISTLE VALLEY. By Conderset Rowe and Peter Gottfredson. In Thistle Valley. From the close of the Tintic War in 1856, the Indians were comparatively peaceable till 1863. Then they became dissatisfied, thinking that the Whites were encroaching upon their rights by crowding them off their lands and hunting grounds. They would often say. " White man's horses, cows and sheep eat Indian's grass. White man burn Indian's wood, shoot Indian's buckskins, rabbits, etc." And they frequently wanted horses, cattle or sheep in payment for it. Often they would bring an order from the Bishop, or some one for a beef or a mutton, and in such cases they always wanted the best. In the summer of 1863, the Mount Pleasant dry stock and sheep were taken into Thistle Valley, at the head |