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Show 290 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS NAVAJOES RAID HARRISBURG, SOME STOCK STOLEN. The earliest signs of trouble during the year came from the southwest where the turbulent Navajoes were the predominating tribe. A band of them invaded southern Utah in the latter part of February and drove off the herds from " Wash-ington and Harrisburg. A party of militia started in pursuit, recovered some of the stock and drove the thieves beyond the Colorado. FRANKLIN BENJAMIN WOOLLEY KILLED NEAR FORT MOHAVE. March 21st, Franklin B. Woolley of St. George, son of Bishop Edwin D. Woolley was killed near the Mohave Eiver, California; he had been on a business trip to San Bernadino, California, and was returning with goods for the St. George store and had been separated from the main body of his freight train and had gone to look for his horses that had strayed from the camp the night previous. They had gone back to the spring where the company nooned they day before, when it is supposed he was surrounded by a party of about fifteen Indians. He dismounted from his mule to parley with them, but finding that no compromise could turn them from their murderous purpose, he sought to make his es-cape. He fell pierced with arrows after running a few rods. His slayers stripped off his clothes and dragged his body to a place of concealment where it was not found until some days later by searching |
