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Show 338 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS Illimtllll! people were out hunting cattle a man named Peter Ludvigsen was killed. I have always taken the posi-tion that that talk with the Indians " showed their hand. ' ' I believe they started hostilities sooner than they would have done had not the incident above mentioned occurred. But the trouble would have come just the same. I am confident many lives were saved, because it put the people on their guard. The chief, Black Hawk told Charles Whitlock of Eph-raim, the same thing as had been told me concerning the intention of the Indians. These are facts as to the starting of the Black Hawk Indian depredations. In those early days its was at times imperative that harsh measures should be used. Hamilton killed an Indian dog, and whipped some Indians too, but that didn't start a war; I threw an Indian out of my house and kicked him off the place, and no war came of it. We had to do these things, or be run over by them. It was a question of supremacy between the white man and the Indian. I have patiently borne the stigma placed upon me, for I knew the facts, and to those who still persist in looking upon me as guilty of precipitat-ing the Black Hawk War I will say this, that I ap-peal from their decision to a higher court Our Creator, who will ultimately judge all men. Signed, John Lowry. Stamped with Commissioners of Indian War Records Seal. Indians in Grass Valley, Piute County, Utah did not want to go to the Uintah Reservation to live. At the time the U. S. Government set apart the Uintah reservation as a home for the Utah Indians |