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Show 296 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS and gathered the animals together and took them to town. I expect they were disappointed at losing the band, for they wantonly shot a mule with an arrow, mortally wounding it. They also went a little farther and shot down a steer and, with their knives cut it all to pieces. They manifest even a meaner spirit than they did before the last war. They went into a brothers the other day when there were no one at home but the latter ' s wife and because she did not give them bread, when they asked it, they struck her in the face. Several instances have occurred when they threatened women with violence for not complying with their demands. The people are fair-ly exasperated, but do not want to take any steps that would tend to start an Indian war, if it can be avoided. I am informed that a party of Indians went to a stable in Ephraim a few nights ago, and because they could not get the horses out of the stable, crawled in by a small opening and cut the animals in a horrible manner. CHIEF TABBY SENDS WORD HE CAN NO LONGER CONTROL HIS INDIANS. On the 12th of August General D. H. Wells re-ceived the following message from Colonel E. N. All-red of Spring City: " Tabby sends word to all the Bishops, that he can control his men no longer. ' ' He was in Spanish Fork Canyon yesterday. I with a detachment brought the herd from Thistle Valley yesterday, having started as soon as I got word of the raid at Fairview. The wounded boy Stewart is dead." Next dav R. L. Johnson of Fountain Green, tele- |
