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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 291 parties. The remains were brought home for inter-ment by the brother of the deceased, E. D. Woolley, Jr., now president of Kanab Stake. RAID ON KANE COUNTY, THREE FRIENDLY INDIANS KILLED. May 1st. Raid on Kane County, three p riendly Indians were killed and the marauders drove off eighteen head of horses. RAID ON KANARRA, MANY HORSES STOLEN, SOME RECOVERED. Joshua W. Sylvester. I will now relate the next trip we made after Indians : We had moved from Gunnison to Kanarra ; after living there a couple of years, on October 31st, 1869, a very dark night, the Navajoes made a raid on the place, and when I got up I found my fences torn down and some horses gone. After breakfast I rode to town, about a mile distant and found the boys saddling the few horses they could get hold of, for most of their stables were empty. A man from Dixie had been stopping at the place and be-fore going to bed he had gone out to see after his mules in the corral. Finding the bars down he put them up, thinking it would be best to hobble his mules ; he got the iron hobbles and put on them. Next morning he found them shot with arrows ; that with the horses being gone gave the situation away; we knew then that Indians had been on the ground. We went after them, and owing to a light fall of snow we could consequently track them easily. We |
