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Show 71 the Territory, accompanied by Indian guides, in the endeavor to have an interview with Black Hawk, but have been unable, as yet, to meet him. I have also sent • several Indian runners to find and endeavor to induce him to meet me, and have recently received assurance that he was indisposed to further hostilities, and willing and anxious for peace. I expect to meet him at some point within the coming one or two months, and think no further trouble need be apprehended from him or his band.l Head then reports an incident which was important in the * history of the Black Hawk War. San Pitch, the most reluctant of the signers of the Spanish Fork Treaty, was accused of furnishing ammunition to Black Hawk and was arrested along with "several" of his "principal" men. The settlers of Manti who arrested the Utes had a guard placed over them but the Ute women secreted knives to their men who subsequently escaped. As San Pitch and his fellow prisoners overpowered the guard, San Pitch was injured so gravely that he died a few days later. Head referred to him as a "bad Indian" who had long furnished Black Hawk with ammunition and had also been "advising him as to the most feasible points for stealing cattle." This was quite likely true, for it is hard to imagine the Indian folk of the valley not helping those who were doing so much to feed their starving people. The situation was made worse by the fact that San Pitch was a relative of Tabby of the Uintahs. The fac£ that the Uintahs had re-iReport of the Secretary of the Interior, 1866, pp. 124-125. 2Ibid. |
