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Show meant. In a few seconds another Indian came in to inform me that the Spanish Fork Canyon was full of Mormons armed with guns and pistols, and said they were going to kill me and he had scarcely time to tell his story when another came in great haste and said that a Mormon Squaw at Springville had told him to run and tell me that the Mormons were going to kill me. He also reported a large body of armed men on the road between Springville and the Indian farm. It was also reported by another Indian that the Mormons at Paysan (the town in the South) were all in arms, (although it was Sabbath.) The Indians would not quit my room, but began to gather up my bedding and running apart, when any Interpreter came into the room in an apparent state of excitement and exclaimed, "Doctor you gone in!" I asked what it all meant. He said it was understood all over the country that I was about leaving with the Indians, and handed I me a note from Mr. Butter, Bishop of the Spanish Fork Settle-ment, stating that he had learned from various sources that I intended going out with the Indians in violation of the Marshal Law now in force. He felt it his duty to inform me that I could not leave, that they were resolved to enforce the law at all hazards. I regret having mislaid this letter but the above is its pur- |