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Show INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS 163 well) come to the river to get water, and could have shot him. Caldwell asked: " Why didn't you." The chief answered that he did not want to ; he also said that the Indians could have shot the men who swam the river. ' ' Why didn ' t you shoot them, ' ' ask-ed Caldwell. Arropeen replied that they wanted all the men to get into the river first, then the water would have been red. He said the Indians were am-bushed, and as soon as the white men had got into the stream they were going to open fire. We started back the next morning, traveling two days and night without food. On the third day we were so nearly starved that the men wanted to kill a horse. The officers told them that if they did not meet supplies that day we might kill an animal. But that evening we met the men with the packs of supplies at the mouth of Eock Canyon; we tore the sacks open and filled our pockets and shirt bos-oms with biscuits and started up the trail ; we could only go single file till we reached the top of the ridge or mountain. The next day we all took our different routes for our homes from the top of the mountain. Our boys reached Grunnison at one o ' clock in the morning sing-ing, " We will rally round the flag, boys." ATTACK ON GLENWOOD, MERRITT STALY WOUNDED. At daybreak, on July 26, 1865, Merritt Staley, a blacksmith at Glenwood, went out after coal to start a fire in his shop. As he raised up with a basket of coal he was fired upon by Indians who lay con-cealed under the creek bank ; one bullet went through |