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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 319 he would talk to them, telling them not to fight the whites as he had done. When he died there was a terrible howling. The men jumped upon their horses and killed seven head of horses, one Piede woman ( a prisoner), and one boy, and carried Wah- ker up into the mountains, put his body into a cliff of rocks, walled it up and put a Piede boy in with him alive. Three days after, as some Indians were riding by, the boy called out to them and asked to be let out. He said Wah- ker began to stink and he was hungry. They laughed at him and rode on. Wah- ker had three brothers: Ara- pene, Sam-pitch, and Tabby. Tabby is at present the head chief of the ITtahs proper, and is on the Uintah reser-vation. ( 1872.) Ara- pene was a great orator, but a hard-hearted man. At one time in Manti he got mad at his wife and burned her in a fearful manner with a frying- pan handle that was broken off the pan. She crawled to the settlement and the white women nursed her until she recovered. At another time he came down out of the moun-tains with some deer- skins and a Piede prisoner, a small boy, to trade. The price was too high for the child, whereupon, in rage, he took the child by his heels and dashed his brains out by thrashing the ground with his head. In 1849, when fifty of us were exploring the ' ' Dixie ' ' country, in the month of December, we met Ara- pene on his way from the mountains on the Se-vier river, coming down to winter. An old squaw had a long roll of cedar bark, one end of which was on fire so as to light a fire quickly. We all camped |