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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 249 SECOND RAID ON STOCK. After the second expedition had started for the Reservation and while the expedition was still there between the 8th and 16th of July, 1866, some Indians came into the eastern part of Heber and took two oxen and a heifer from Tom. Handley ' s corral ; they left a bell- cow. William Foreman, who was on guard at the lake, found the tracks at daylight. A shower having fallen during the night he rushed to Heber and reported. Handley * s stock being found miss-ing, James A. Eoss, Joseph S. Parker, Sid Carter and Isaac Cummings started in a hurry on the trail and when down about eight miles on the west Du-chesne they saw smoke in the timber. Leaving their horses and crawling up close to the timber, they saw the Indians roasting meat, they having killed the heifer. One Indian was sitting on the paunch while the others were lying down. By signs each of the men in pursuit took aim at an object and fired. The Indian on the paunch fell over and the others crawled into the brush. The boys got the oxen and also the Indians' horses and effects and some of the meat, which they brought home, and they did not look to see how many Indians were killed. This occurred when the militia was at the Res-ervation. Lieutenant McDonald was conversing-with some Indians when another Indian rode up very excited pointing to the hills and motioned for another horse. It was rumored that a wounded In-dian was brougt in before the company left. Putting' these items together, they tally with circumstan- |