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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 285 rifle ready for use. The Indians, however, passed along and after going a short distance they stopped and held a council. The team was made to travel at a lively pace. When the Indians saw this two of them started after it, coming towards the wagon about three hundred yards, but seeing their com-panions did not follow they stopped and went back. One Indian was so drunk he could scarcely sit on his horse, and the others had been drinking, but they knew what they were doing. James Oscar Ivie, son of Colonel Ivie, one of the children in the wagon said, Lyman R. Peters was the driver. Mrs. Ivie and her children were very much frightesed; the mother covered the smaller children with the bedding in the wagon. Colonel Ivie said afterwards that if the Indians had overtaken them the second time, he intended to jump out of the wagon and let it go on and take his chances with them. He was well armed. INDIAN GRATITUDE. The following is an incident as related by Col. John L. Ivie, to his son James 0. Ivie : During the Indian troubles in the 60 ' s the Indians had stolen some cattle, and driven them up North Creek Canyon, between Fairview and Mount Pleasant. Father John L. Ivie and his company of minute men were in pursuit, and going up the moun-tain they gathered up several head of cattle which had been left along the trail, on account of not keeping up with the herd. And up among the tim-ber was discovered a lone Indian covered up with leaves ; he was sick, and not able to travel with |
