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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 229 tlements. Accordingly the acting justice of the peace Benj. Johnson, prevailed upon the old Indian to give up his gun. The Indian willingly gave the gun to the justice and started out to cross the hills in the direction of Oak Creek, when Ivie followed him, and out on the flat, about two miles from town, he overtook the Indian and without warning shot him dead. He was buried where he was killed. According to the Indian custom it was " a life for a life ' ' and it did not matter to them who it was just so they got their revenge by killing a white. For the death of Panacara I came nearly losing my scalp at the hands of ' ' Nun- ka- tots " ( a particular friend of Panacara), who lived most of the time with him. I was on my way from Deseret to Scipio \\ ith a load of wheat and on reading a point on the desert near Mud- Lake the reflection of a gun showed an Indian in hiding behind a mound near the road. I jumped off the wagon, ready with my rifle for action when the Indian rode away. For seven years this Indian avoided me and finally came to me and asked if I was " tobuck" now. I told him I was not " tobuck" and he said " me no tobuck now'; and from then on this Indian and myself were good friends. ( Signed) William Probert. Manti, Utah, Feb. 12, 1914. Box 109. ATTACK ON THE J. P. LEE RANCH NEAR BEAVER, JOSEPH ULYWHITE WOUNDED. Dear Brother Gottfredson : When I began reading to mother the manuscript you inclosed, she began saying, " That is not quite |