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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 159 before reaching Lost Creek went out to where the saddled horse had been seen feeding, and found Gil-lispie lying on his back dead. As they went on, they could see the tracks of Gillispie's horse from the hollow where the man was shot; the horse had been going fast to where the hat was found, about three miles distant and it proved to be Gillispie's hat. It appeared also that he had turned and gone east toward Glenn's Twist, where a road passed through to Glenwood and that when he had reached this road he had gone back and crossed the hol-low where he was shot ; thence he rode out to where the body was found. Here he is supposed to have dismounted and died there. He was taken to Mount Pleasant for burial. GEN. W. S. SNOW TOOK COMMAND OF SANPETE MILITIA. The news of this double murder aroused the martial spirit in Sanpete, and Gen'l Warren S. SEOW with about one hundred men was soon on the march endeavoring to head off the hostiles in the mountains towards Fish Lake. Gen. Snow took command of the Sanpete militia July 15th. GEN. SNOW STARTS AFTER THE INDIANS. THE SQUAW FIGHT IN GRASS VALLEY, MARINE YORK WOUNDED. After arriving at Glenwood they stayed there all day on the 17th, and at dusk started over the mountain for Grass Valley over a rough trail, Joshua W. Sylvester says " At daylight, on the morn-ing of the 18th, we had a good view of the whole |