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Show 226 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS i ii i linn i in inn ii mi in AN EXTRACT FROM JAMES M. PETERSON'S DIARY. The following is culled from the diary of James M. Peterson of Eichfield which gives some additional data. Mr. Peterson who is the founder of the first bank in Sevier County : * ' April 15th, 1866. I am now sixteen years old and subject to military duty. My first service in the Black Hawk War was on the 26th of April when I was on guard. May 3rd, together with Sheriff Nathaniel Han-chett and five others I started north with fifty head of cattle to buy arms and ammunition for the people of Sevier county ; we went by way of Scipio for safe-ty. Tuesday, May 5th, we began to trade for guns at Payson and we also traded at Springville. We paid for revolvers thirty to forty dollars each ; we finished trading in Salt Lake City on the 14th and returned home on the 21st under guard of twenty men. Dur-ing our trip we bought eighteen rifles, eleven revol-vers and one hundred and forty pounds of ammuni-tion, which we had purchased at an enormous price ; but these articles were indispensible. June 5th I was on picket all day and stood guard at night. Sept. 8th a company of militia camping between Eichfield and Glenwood took a man prisoner suppos-ed to be a spy from the Indians. DEATH OF BLACK HAWK. Black Hawk, the Indian chief who figured so prom-inently in the Utah Indian War in 1865- 1867, died at Spring Lake Villa, a small settlement situated be-tween Payson and Santaquin, Utah County, Utah, in 1870. |