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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 337 nothing ; but the Indians told me several times what they intended to do, and so I went the second time to the Bishop, My story was received by his saying t ' There are not enough of them. ' * I then told him that it did not matter how few the number as long as they entertained the idea that it was the wish of Satan, they would accomplish their purpose regard-less of results to them. Shortly after I learned they were killing cattle. I had some cattle on the range myself, and in my search for them I found the skull of an ox which I had owned. I operated a grist mill at the time and the Indians would come there for grinding, and I remember that it was about the sixth of March that I informed them that I had found the skull of my ox and asked them why they had killed it, as I had always been a friend to them, as had the Mormon people, generally. I talked to them in such a way that they agreed to pay me for the animal which had been killed by fetching me a horse, and they did so next day. I agreed to meet with them at Manti about the eighth of April and talk the matter over of their killing our cattle. Accordngly the council took place. It appeared the difficulty would be settled amicably, but a certain young Indian pre-sent whose father had died during the winter contin-ued to halloo and make demonstrations, saying that he would ( eat Mormon beef) and kill " Mormons " when the snow went off. I told him a time or two to stop and permit me to finish my talk. Just then some one called out " lookout, he is getting his ar-rows !" I rode up to him and turned him off his horse, and pulled him to the ground. The bystanders interferred and we separated. I had fully exposed what they intended to do. The next day as our |