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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 251 iiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiii The bullet shattering the shin bone. George Bonner was shot through the thigh, the bullet coming so near through that it was cut out with a pocket knife. Wm. M. Wall had a marvelous escape, a bullet passed around the rim of his belly, making nine holes in his vest and shirt, but never breaking his skin. It has always been considered a miracle that Cap-tain Wall was not killed. It was also through the alertness of our scouts just a few days before, that J. A. Boss and three companions were able to over-take those three Indians who took Thomas Handley's oxen and heifer out of his corral, right in Heber, and they brought back the oxen and the Indians ' horses, also a white mule that had been stolen by the Indians down on the Sevier River. One Indian was known to have been killed at the time, and another wounded; one got away. Written by Wm. Lindsey, and corroborated by James D. Shank, commander Wasatch Department, Indian War Veterans, who was Commissary at the time. THIRD RAID. About August, Indians took John Muir's mules and John Turner's horses out of a pasture adjoining Heber City east. Through friendly Indians Mr. Tur-ner got back his horses, but Mr. Muir's mules, two fine ones, failed to return. FOURTH RAID. About the 20th of August Indians took John Lee's horses from his pasture, one mile east of Heber City. Mr. Lee had moved from his farm to the east line of the city, and had just taken the |