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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 187 The Indians on that occasion got away with two hundred head of stock. Emil Nielsen was a respected citizen of Salina Utah, till December 1917, when he died at Salina. INDIANS AT MANTI BROKE JAIL, THREE INDIANS KILLED, FIVE ESCAPE. Chief Sanpitch, who had been so reluctant to sign the treaty drawn up and presented to his fellow chieftains at Spanish Fork on June 8th of the pre-vious year, 1865, was quick to violate his pledge when opportunity offered and when Black Hawk's successes proved sufficient to seduce him from his al-legiance, he joined in some of the depredations plan-ned by the renegade chiefs, though not with the latter ' s good fortune for he was one of those taken prisoner at Nephi on April 12th. Sanpitch and the other Indian prisoners at Manti broke jail, April 14, 1866. From Wm. A. Cox of Manti we learn the following: The Indians broke out of the jail late in the evening, and five of them got away. Andrew Van Buren and an Indian by the name of Aukewakets ran over a pile of rocks and leaped over a fence. As they ran over the rock pile each stooped and picked up a good sized rock raised up ready to strike. Van- Buren being a little the quickest brought the Indian to his knees, and then took an old jack knife with a broken backspring from his pocket, after which he and the Indian clutched each other by the throat. Van Buren succeeded in opening the knife with one hand and his teeth and cut the Indian's throat. When W. A. Cox in the darkness of the night passed the end of a pile of fence posts, he thought |
