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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 341 time to come he did not want them to reproach their " Mormon" friends for not informing them ^ hat they could get by going to the Reservation. He de-sired that they should assimilate the conduct of their " Mormon" friends, quit their begging and farm industriously, fence their farms, build houses, raise horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc., make gardens, go to meetings on the Sabbath day, send their child-ren to the District School and to the Sabbath school, and thus become independent and sustain them-selves. After this was made clear to them by the visit-ors to their understandings, they seemed pleased, took us back ( cotch tarriby) to be their friends al-ways, a great shaking hands was had and we and the Indians were all ( tic- a- boo) friends and have been ever since. GRASS VALLEY INDIANS IN 1914. Peter Gottfredson, who has been collecting the history of the Indians in Utah, writes interestingly of a recent visit to the Grass Valley Indians at Koo-sharem, Mr. Gottfredson says in part : " I visited their Sunday school class. It con-sists of about twenty members. The teacher is Louis Hatch, who is sustained as missionary to the Indians by the authorities of Sevier Stake. He is the son of George A. Hatch, who occupied the position of Indian Missionary for many years and who was greatly beloved by the Indians. The elder Hatch died four years ago. At his death the Indians grieved very much, many of them crying at his |
