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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 181 GENERAL SNOW ARRESTS A GAMP OF INDIANS AT NEPHI. On Monday, March 12th, 1866, General Warren S. Snow of Manti arrested some Indians at a camp a couple of miles northeast of Nephi, in Juab County. One Indian who tried to escape, was shot down; four others were tried in court and by order of the chief was taken out of town and shot for complicity in several raids. Eight others, including Chief San-pitch, were taken to Manti and placed in jail. Early in April the ecclesiastical and military authorities of some of the settlements of southern Utah asked for assistance from neighboring counties. One of the first to respond was Iron County, which sent twenty- four men with teams to help build a fort on the Sevier Eiver for the protection of the set Hers. General Daniel H. Wells recognized in the move-ments of the hostiles the indications of a disastrous war and at once ordered all the available men of the three counties, Sanpete, Sevier and Piute to be mus-tered into service as cavalry and infantry and or-ganized for defense. But no vigilance was equal to the task of defeating the designs of the sleepless foe, the strength of whose forces was now increased to over three hundred warriors, and the celerity of whose movements defied every precaution. KILLING OF JOSEPH AND ROBERT BERRY AND WIFE AS STATED BY J. S. ADAMS AND WIFE. Joseph and Robert Berry and the latter ' s wife Isabella were on their way from Spanish Fork, Utah |