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Show 156 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS that day, encouraging them to do so. President Young advised them to remember good advice given them, to learn to read and write and increase in intelligence, stating in connection, that Col. Irish had done all he possibly could for them, and that he was their friend and blessed them. Kanosh, Tabby and Sow- ok- soo- bet indulged in a short talk each, expressive of their good feeling; after which the President strongly advised them not to punish the innocent for misdeeds of the guilty, and if any of their own or other bands should com-mit depredations, to catch the guilty ones and deliver them up to the authorities of the whites for trial. A large amount of presents were distributed among the Indians. PRES. YOUNG- AND PARTY LEFT G. S. L. CITY FOR SANPETE. July 7th. President B. Young, and several of the twelve and others left G. S. L. City on a mission-ary trip to Sanpete County, from which they return-ed on the 19th, having traveled about three hun-dred miles and held eighteen meetings. R. GILLISPIE AND A. ROBINSON KILLED SOUTH OF SAUNA. In July, 1865, Anthony Robinson of Monroe, Sevier County, went to mill at Manti. He stopped at Gunnison on the night of July 12th, with Joshua Sylvester ; the night of the 13th he camped near the Willow Bend on the west side of the Sevier River; some men from Monroe were camping a short dis-tance below ; he left his wagon and stayed with them |