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Show 270 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS covered his horses, and before leaving the place he dragged the dead Indians together, covered them with brush which he set on fire, and got back in the night. SPRING CITY FIGHT, J. MEEKS AND A. JOHNSON KILLED. An account given by Marinus Lund of Spring City, Utah. During the month of April a com-pany of " Minute Men" was organized at Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah, for guarding, scout-ing and general service in protecting the settlers from the Indians ; the company was composed of ten picked men, who were on duty all the time during the spring and summer of 1867. Everybody moved along quietly until the morning of August 13th, 1867, when about twenty men with teams left Spring City for the hayfield which was about six miles south- west of the town. Contrary to the usual cus-tom, the scouting ahead of the cowherd was not done that morning. A company of Indians, who evidently had spent the previous night in the stone-quarry hills, about a half mile south of the hay road, saw the cow- herd coming over the hills north of the road. In their effort to reach the herd the Indians encountered the hay teams ; the minute men were guarding the cow herd and were attracted by the reports of the guns fired by the Indians in their attack on the hay teams. William Scott, Sanford Allred and myself rode to the place where the fir-ing was heard. On our way we saw Andrew Johnson, a driver of one of the hay teams, going north with an arrow in his back. He had been shot |