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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 293 waited in ambush on the trail for those who pur-sued. We hardly ever met them when they did not have the advantage; therefore, whenever we were out in the mountains, our wives, mothers and sisters anxiously awaited to hear from us, and they were actually the greatest sufferers. If they saw any-one riding fast into town, they all rushed to the meeting house to hear the news. But while they had women's fears they had soldiers' hearts; they would get provisions ready for us out of their scanty supplies, and often mould bullets for us, while we were getting other things ready ; but they never said " Don't go." NIELS HEIZELT KILLED AT TWELVE MILE CREEK. It has been stated that the Black Hawk Indian trouble of 1866- 67 ended all organized warfare on the part of the aborigines in Utah. The spring of 1872. however, witnessed some desultory depreda-tions by the savages, which threatened at one time a general outbreak. The primal cause of disaffec-tion among them was the treatment received at the hands of some dishonest government agents and acts of lawlessness committed by renegade white men. These troubles did not originate in Utah, but in the northern territories, whence they spread to this region. During the previous autumn hostilities in Southern Utah and Arizona had been barely averted by the good offices of Jacob Hamblin, the well known Indian interpreter, who at Fort Defiance, on November 2nd, 1871, concluded a treaty of peace on behalf of the people of this territory with the |