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Show 252 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS animals to the pasture, when on looking east, he saw the Indians driving the horses out of the pas-ture. He gave the alarm. The Indians drove the horses along the foot hills, east and north aiming to strike the Park City road north of Heber. A com-pany of men started to head them off. William Mc- Donald who lived on his farm on said road and owned a good horse, mounted this horse bare back and started in pursuit, but the Indians struck the road before Mr. McDonald. A race ensued, but be-fore Mr McDonald could reach the river bridge six miles north, the Indians ran the horses across the Provo River and into some brush where they left them, and then hurried away. The boys brought the horses back. About ten days later the Indians stole the same horses again, out of the same pasture. On this occasion Mr. Lee got one horse back by paying an Indian for getting it. FIFTH RAID. In September, 1866, the Indians broke into Wm. BelPs stable south of Heber and stole a fine pair of mares " called Island stock ". These animals were young and full of life, and had not been han-dled much. It appeared that the Indians had had a struggle with them in the sage brush. The next morning they were found shot. About this time, or perhaps a little later, Charles H. Wilkin went to his saw- mill in Center Creek canyon with two yoke of oxen, which he turned out in the evening. The next morning they were gone. Major Witt and Adj't. Wilkin went to the Reservation and got three of them back; one had been killed and eaten. It was |