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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 55 anyone I have formerly known, and advised him to act more careful, or he would get into trouble. I tried to reason with him, but to no purpose, he went on down to Utah valley, and there acted in an insulting and threaten-ing manner. Bowman's Mexicans were encamped on the west side of the Sanpete valley. It was deemed prudent to bring them in and keep an eye on them, until it could be decided what their intentions were, for at this time it was seen that a growing spirit of war was upon the Indians, and almost anything would stir them up. Several little fusses of a private nature had lately occurred. At this time many of the settlers, contrary to the counsel of President Young, had settled on farms and were much exposed. This had a tendency to make , the Indians aggressive. Many times the settlers were sorely annoyed by the Indians' horses getting into the fields. When remonstrated with they would ask, " Whose lands are these you are on." The continual advice of Presi-dent Young was to build in towns, fence their lands and be kind to the Indians ; that it was cheaper to feed than to fight them, etc. Some heeded this counsel, while many did not. I was one of a party of four or five who went out and brought in the Mexicans. They were a little sus-picious, asking a great many questions about Bowman, where he was, etc. But I finally persuaded them to go with us. We had no authority to arrest them, neither was it the intention to do so, if it could be avoided. In the meantime Bowman got into some trouble with the Indians by deceiving them in some of their promised trades, and he was ambushed and killed by some of them. Owing to his manner and threats, it was rumored the Mormons had killed him. I was actively engaged as |