Show j written fate for pap paper THE GOSHUTE INDIANS DEEP CREEK november 10 1893 when utah was settled there were found in the west and in the desert country in the low mountains th stir goshute koshute indians an inferior race of indians at that their chief food was the rabbit once in a while they killed a deer or antelope an they had nothing but an inferior bow and arrow to kill with pine nuts they gathered in the fall but they often fail As a last resort they would gather and cook prickly p pears their clothing consisted of a cloak made of rabbit skins woven together with sinews of the deer these were worn by male and female alike their wick i ups were made with willows lows it they could be had if not cedar boughs were used very little mechanism was displayed there are now less than one hundred of the tribe all told left eft ol of the many thousand that existed when this country was first settled many people have an idea that these indians attain to a great age this is erroneous there are but a few left that we knew thirty five years ago and many that were boys then look as old as I 1 do and they are old no house lor for the winter nothing laid up to eat and but to wear would naturally make them short lived they do not take to civilization but few can talk english so they can be understood the young men of them will not do as well as the older ones have done 0 ou the whole they are ar indolent worth less set and may we well I 1 be classed as a back aback number they have no traditions ot of their ancestors like other tribes have they are an inferior race to look of them small and cowardly to a despicable degree in times past they have killed emigrants and over and men but always taking no chances themselves the first emigrant trains lor for california passed to the south of the salt lake through though their country from these the pesky red skins stole horses mules and cattle which they ate at first but afterwards they kept the horses to ride they raw now all have horses sixty miles south from deep creek stands pilots peak just at the west side of the desert here are yet signs of a partly demolished emigrant train from what we can learn there was a large train of emigrants crossed the desert at this place many years ago some of them perished on the desert with some of their stock when the rest arrived at the salt spring while tired and in a famished condition the indians attacked them and killed many the survivors moved on under cover of night to the mountains where they found a small spring an and d m made ade their last stand from those olse wh who 0 have been on the ground recently I 1 learned that they had built up a rock wall and made a fight but the canyon was so narrow and the rock so near that the indians hid behind it and they could reach the emigrants without any harm to themselves all but two boys were killed these made their way to california some other emigrants came along afterwards and buried those killed one of those that got away came back a lew few years ago th b hunt for thirty thousand ollars dollars that mat he knew his father to have had bad which he believed he had buried but he could find nothing of it the 1 indians may have got it 1 1 you cannot get a word out of the indians about the fight all they will say is that those that were in the fight are all dead or that it was goose creek indians that did the killing the settlers also suffered from these thieves they would make raids on the herds of the whiteland whitesand whites white sand and much stock was lost the whites sometimes follo followed wedo them only to see that their stock was 0 ne there seemed to be no indian gaters sone gaters in that part of the country one ti time me a company of young men followed them the indians must have seen them coming and got into the cedars the company followed them and when well in the indians opened fire the surprise had the effect and a stampede ensued every fellow for himself joe rich was on a lazy old mule that would not run he kicked and spurred with all his might while the arrows flew thick and fast when the boys got beyond the cedars they missed joe howard spencer went back and helped him up I 1 think I 1 can now see kicking for dear life when joe caught up with the rest still panting he said boys just think of it my father is is perhaps even ri now ow praying for the success of these Lama the time lime was just before breakfast and the chances were that his father was at prayers much did these indians to the overland mail and express company in the year 1863 the station situated in in deep deep creek canyon half way between willow springs and deep creek was burned and seven men were killed connors soldiers and two hostlers hustlers host lers the station of necessity had 0 be built close to the hill the hay was stacked close to the stable the house was also built near the stable the indians shot arrows with fire fagots fagons that set everything afire and as the men came out they were shot one soldier got on a horse and attempted to escape but he too was shot through the body but lived to get to george boyds station at willow springs where he told the story and then died boyd with some men went up and found everything burned and the indians gone the indians took but little with them one hostler by the name of william riley who was deaf was only i wounded at first he fought them ha hard rd but was overpowered at last the indians tied him and th thrust rust him on the woodpile wood pile and burned hirn him alive one of the indians cut his heart out and roasted and ate it so as to make him brave water had to be hauled for this station the water hauler and one soldier had gone for water to deep creek and saved their lives george boyd buried what was left of riley and the rest the soldiers were afterwards taken to camp douglas dougla s for interment the two ho hustlers hostlers host stiers lers are buried with one water hauler that had been killed previously on a mound near the road side only one grave shows now no mark on the grave to tell who the three brave men were who lost their lives by the cowardly indians the overland is grone gone as well as they and there are but few left t tell the tale there are but few of the redskins red skins left either and none that will own up to being in the massacre they will tell you that the dead indians did the deed they give as excuse that the soldiers killed a lot of their family and friends at porter Rock wells ranch on government creek in skull valley busly which they did I 1 was livings living at rush valley station when capt sm smith th with his company came to Rock wells ranch and camped from some cause or another they surrounded and killed the men women and children of a little encampment of friendly indians that were camped in the cedars near by the soldiers only spared one that was peanuts young squaw capt smith took her to his own tent where I 1 saw her when I 1 went over to see what was going on she told rne me that he made her sleep with him and she begged me most piteously to take her away I 1 talked with smith and b be e told me that he was holding her in order that she should tell where the rest of the indians were I 1 told her what he said she replied that she knew of no other indians only her husband and some of his brothers who had gone hunting and she did not know where they were then I 1 never will forget the poor woman as I 1 left crying as though her heart would break it afterwards transpired that smith kept her as long as he wanted her and then sent spanish joe off with her she was afterwards found with a bullet through her head I 1 visited the dead indians camp and found the indians unburied I 1 recognized ahe father and brother of it was a ghastly sight they were all swollen to twice their natural mother hugging her little papoose to her breast as tight as though she would shield it from the destroyer there are more savages than the indians Indian sl near the burned station is a high cliff of rocks on the side of the road where the canyon is narrow near the top is a hole where an indian secreted himself and when the stage came along once he shot the driver major egan was on the stage at the time but was not molested the driver handed banded the lines to mr egan saying here egan take the lines and drive while I 1 lay down in the boot and die which he did belore before they got to willow springs this killing was caused all the same white man too much fooling with another mans wife if these indians continue to decrease in the future as they have in the past I 1 we will have to import foreigners to gather the pine nuts or go wit without hout I 1 do not think that these indians have any four hundred among them neither have they a society column in the local newspaper when a child is about to be born the rest pick up their duds and leave the squaw alone when the babe is born the squaw follows the rest there is no ado about it there are no neighbors to run in with exclamations 0 how it looks like its papal no kissing the baby no lather father to set ern em up no hunting for a name if the babe cou could I 1 d talk it would say what a cold reception this is it is strapped J on a board and there it goes and there it grows ml these indians have a terrible fear of 4 other tribes they seldom go away from their own narrow possessions pos in A the winter they will follow up the sheep herds and will pull the wool off on the I 1 dead sheep that are left this wool they sell lor for flour they seldom go to 10 salt lake shopping but when they do the whole family goes they have but little use for rights people the squaw is willing to do the work and the buck is willing she should good they all willbe willibe soon H FAUST |