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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 305 into Castle Valley. Not being prepared to camp out, they abandoned the chase and returned to Glen-wood by way of Grass Valley, crossing into Kings Meadow Canyon at the head of the big willow patch through a very rought country and in a very dark night they got separated and came straggling into Glenwood after day- break hungry and exhausted. HORSES STOLEN FROM FOUNTAIN GREEN. ( THE PURSUIT.) About this time on a Sunday morning P. N. Guyman and Wm. G. Caldwell, two boys of Foun-tain Green, Sanpete County, went on the range after some saddle horses near where the wagon road pass-ed through the hills toward Mount Pleasant, where the horses had ranged. Not finding them, they hunt-ed further until they found tracks and followed them into the hills far enough to make sure that Indians had taken them. The moccasin tracks showed plainly where an Indian had been off his horse to cinch his saddle. They decided to return to town and re-port. When they reached town, Sunday meeting was in process and James Guyman, father of P. N. Guy man, was speaking. Young Guyman interrupted him by saying, " Let me say a word." He then related what they had found; the meeting was im-mediately discontinued and the minute men went in pursuit, but the Indians had too much the start and was not overtaken. A company of U. S. Sol-diers who were in town, also went in pursuit, with Wm. A., ?>" yman as <-- uide; they followed the In-dians into Strawberry Valley where they found that the Indians separated and had gone in different |