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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 269 WM. J. ALLRED RECOVERS HIS HORSES, KILLS TWO INDIANS. William Jackson Allred was the first Bishop of Circleville. When that town was vacated on the 28th of June 1866. He went to Parowan, Iron Coun-ty, and later in the fall moved his family to Beaver. The next summer he worked a farm on shares at the Buckhorn Springs, south of Beaver, leaving his family at Beaver. One morning ( Nov. 10th, 1868) when he got up, he sent his little boy to look for his horses and as the boy was gone longer than he thought he should, he went to look for him. The boy who had found the tracks of the horses, could see that they had been taken by Indians, and showed his father the tracks. Allred then took with him his five-shot revolver and followed the trail of the thieves all day, going northeast through Cottenwood can-yon. Having crossed Buckskin Valley into Hawkins Canyon, he discovered a smoke about a mile distant. He crawled carefully to the place where he saw the smoke and here the three thieves were located in a deep wash sitting by the fire. He stopped to reflect as to what was best to do and seeing one of the Indians with a gun laying by him Allred fired at him, and he fell over ; the other two jumped up and ran. He fired at one of them killing him, the other got away. When Brother Allred went down in the hollow where he shot the first Indian he found that the Indian was not dead as he raised up and shot an arrow at him ; it grazed his face and went up through his hat. Allred then shot the Indian in the head. He re- |
