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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 191 stockade. They undertook to pass the men, when West rode in front of them, and as he did so, one of the Indians caught West's horse by the bit and held it, and the other Indian fired at West, hitting him in the shoulder. Then a skirmish ensued between Hakes and one of the Indians, but their guns failed to respond and no damage resulted ; Hakes ' gun was a cartridge- make, and the Indians a muzzle- loader. Later in the contest, Hakes got the advantage of Lis opponent and made a good Indian of him. By this time I procured another horse, and made my way across the country to the scene of the trouble, shooting at the other Indian, and wounding him in the shoulder ; in this condition he escaped from me. I followed him about four miles and left him in some large boulders. Here dusk came on, and as my horse was a broncho, I decided to tie him up and continue on foot. I finally came back, got my horse and went to the fort. The next day my father and two or three other men trailed the same Indian to a place where some other Indians had found him and helped him away. Here, however, they found his gun; the evidence showed that he had snapped as many as fifty caps at me. Noticing this, the men thought there must be some defect in the gun; one of them tested it and to their astonishment it went off alright. The Indian killed at Louder ' s Spring was call-ed Santick; name of the other Sanford Indian was Shegump. Both were on express from Black Hawk's band. The next day after the fracus at Louder ' s Spring Major Silas S. Smith ordered me to go up to the In-dian camp above Panguitch and take the Indians |