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Show -7- Father stayed home during the winter and hauled fir wood. He traded for flour and supplies for the coming summer. In the spring, father built an adobie one roam house for mother. He planted a garden then returned to Salmon River. He went to work assisting the brethern in _putting in a crop: One day while plowing father was holding the plow which was pulled by four yoke of oxen, they came to a swampy place, b3plow went down, breaking the handles off. Brother Perry Green Taylor who put the handles in said:, . "Let me hold the plow, I believe I can keep it from going in." Father said, "All right, I'll drive the team." When they came to the soft boggy place father whipped the team. Down went the plow, breaking he handle,s again. S ~ ' Ht sTof<.Y O'f:: rhow.ci-s· O JNG-HAl1 ((, +- ' Father labored there during the summer helping put in the crop and gathering the crops in the fall. Father stayed at Salmon River the winter of '5? and 1 58. In February 1858 George McBride and James Miller· were killed and five others wounded by a large party of Bannock and Shoshone Indians near Fort Limhi, Idaho. While these men were out gathering in the stock ./" they were killed by the Indians. /' The latter part of March a company of 10 men were sent from Fort Limhi to notify President Young regarding the trouble with the Indians. This company was in charge of George Hill, and the Indian interpreter. Baldwin H. Watts, Bailey Lake and father were in this company. While traveling near Bannock Creek the men waw something on the hill near the road ahead. Looking through the spy glass they saw it was an Indian. This Indian made a fire which brought other Indians. When the company went to pass the Indians commenced to shoot. While the company were crossing the stream an Indian shot, killing Bailey Lake, who fell off his horse just as he was coming out of the stream. Father was driving the pack horses. As the horses would not . go into the stream at all father called for help. Baldwin Watts came back. Then the men went up stream a short distance, then jumped off their horses, and hid under the bank behind some brush. The Indians shot one of the horses. Father said to the captain, "If you will allow me, I'll take a whip and make the horses come down the bank." Brother Hill said, "Go and you shan•t be hurt." Father took the whip and made the horses go down the bank. Just as this happened, one of the Indians went down the creek above them and set fire to the grass which caused smoke to come down over them. The pack animasl being loose and hungry, fed away from the company. The Indians came down and drove the pack animals up onto the hill right in sight of the company. Then they unpacked the horses and sat on the hill eating the provisions. The smoke was coming ri ght down to where father and the men were. If the emoke continued the men would be driven from their hiding place. George Hill said, "Let's pray that the Lord may change the wind." In a few minutes the wind changed, the fire burned down the creek and went out. |
