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Show IhirdDiniologiical Efetoiry Off RHIaril Saiffle Sfeart Continued liom front page) j Fillmore seeking help. Snake Utes . . . ... 'from Snake Valley had stolen his whiteman s wavs and having cattle horses John Kingi R A McBrlde too But in Apnl at the crossing and n Indian named Mashoquab of the Sevier, Daniel Thompson and were engagea t0 neIp in the c4nase Samue, Urown looked up from their across the desert when overtakeni ferrying work just la time to see the Indians this t!mo showed moro Indians stealing two horses and a savage prIde than real belligorencv mule. The horses and mule were more loud and an taik than recovered and apparently one of arrows and bul,ets Th r. the Indians was wounded, but to entIy havins settled tne matt t0 the settlers it must have seemed ; Webbs salisfaction the wnites hkely that other incidents would decided t0 st the rest of the follow. Not ions after, more horses night in the Indian c ln fact were stolen, and this time Captain ;tney came near staylng permanent. Henry Standage and twelve men ly Aecording t0 one account Mash. I'llilu 111c icu luaucia iiuiil ran vant Valley into Round Valley be fore getting back the stock. A still hooves and by thebodiees of cattle hastely slain for a chunk of their meat. Other forces Joined ln the chase, but the Indians and the stolen stock eventually disappeared disappear-ed in the vast empty lands toward the Colorado. Until the end of hostilities, the people of Millard were deeply involved in-volved in the war, sending aid to the more desperate counties to the east and watching their own stock against possible raids. Once, during the sumer of 1868, a company of men guarding the cattle range on the Corn Creek Mountains very nearly lost their lives, not from bullets but from a sudden summer flood. They had just unpacked and unsaddled to make camp when a downpour brought a heavy rush of water. The men scrambled to high- oquab learned of a murder plot However, he threatened the Snakes i mi iii n'H i 1 1 1 1 v n; i i n a n 1 1 m v usr more serious turn of events came;able come mornlng t0 take WeWs ' .u J Tu ',.; u "i. horses and head safe y for home. Fillmore that the Walker War had A more serious episode took place ;"; . 'I", L" uct0.ber of 1858- Josnian CaU and r ground, but all their guns, pis VpThr.;M had made plans to. tolSi sadd;es, bedding, and pro- " ,--.ieea came ai uiear L,aKe, wnere company of men and drove the they had put u hay Anticipatinf; stock to Sa.t lake County, where tne cold wealher ahead they had it was placed witn the local stock equpped themselves with warm in the pastures across the Jordan, overcoats and other clothing ac-Still ac-Still other precautions were taken. quired from the soldiers at Camp At night the milk cows were Floyd Reaching Saltcreek (Nephi) gathered into one herd and placed on their return they decided t0 in. in one corral to bo guarded On yestigate a new way of getting September 13, while standing duty cattle Jnto the Pahvant valley. at M?e !U!!thw?Tst corner of.,h?i Going down Chicken Creek, appar-corral, appar-corral, Willian Hatton was killed enUy with the hope of foliowing with a single shot, supposedly tne Sevier thr0Ugh its final canyon, firpn hv an Indian, and for the re- u. . rii.i i. mainder if what must have been' a " Tn oinathe Hildreth company passed thru mamacr n wnai must nave Deen and some of his warriors. Friendly th .,, ...sty, v,Q r-t n nervous n e-ht. John If nc tnnk ..n. .u:. s j o..V county With large herds Of IU1K. 11115 lime UrOVKU lUllie. 1 choin avA r.ciia Tko annnar.rka the Dace of the fallen man. ,oi o ..i.. fn,.A aa .sheep and cattle. The annoyance This was Millard Cmmtv's nnlv Tu' ", Z'u. . to the settlers was great, not only fatalitv of the war. but the DeoDle I 1 . . . one supposes, because the traveling must have continued apprehensive. I ne new ae.caae 01 nes open- stock ate needed grass and made When Walker died at Meadow ed on an ommous nate- 0n a Vlslt herding difficult, but also because Creek late in January 1855 Chief t0 Fmmore Orson Hyde and E. . the emigrants themselves were Kanosh of the Pahvants, who had e.n.sn sported that in the north sometimes rough and violent men. remained friendly, cent word that 1"? f"srwerf dealing and killing At their camp, with httle or no pro-Walker's pro-Walker's Utes were mad and that caUle Local eyes naturally grew vocation, some of them shot two visions were swept away. But in Round Valley even the watchfulness watchful-ness sometimes did not stop the loss of stock. On May 7th of that year the Indians drove away fif teen head of horses, and late in March of the following year, in one of the last raids of the war, they drove away another hundred. "The oft-affiicted horse-herd at Scipio," one historian called it Another problem of the '50s was emigrants. Early in the fall of 1853, they intended to kill two Pahvants StL? ?i Oak City News MACEL ANDERSON Millard County Chronicle Thursday. June 20, 196S I linvi' a roi'KH'tiou, Mr. ami Mrs. Ilyion Niols.m went In Turkey to make thi'lr home rutlier than tier-many. tier-many. Mr. and Mrs. Oiin Finlliison of Payson visited their pnrents, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Flnlin.son. I'm sorry there was no news from and other relatives and friends for Oak Citv last week. I was out of 1 Father's D:v. She is attending town the past week and returned , school In Salt Lake for two weeks. Miss Jane Hnlinson is homo at Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Finlinson 'Pre-ni graduating irm umj. home on Monday too late to get the news off to the paper. Mrs. Cheryl Roper spent the week at leadership with her friends Carol Eik-kson and Jeanotte Sehaub of East Ely, Nev., where they renewed their friendship and enjoyed the lovely weeks activities. EIRue Alldredge has gone to Phoenix to spend the summer and is attending summer school at the Black Canyon College. Mr. and Mrs. Dwain Finlinson attended at-tended a postmasters convention at Cedar, Thursday and Friday, returning re-turning home Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. I.ielvin Roper and family have moved back to their Oak City homo for the summer. Molvin left Saturday morning from the Cedar City Airport to go tJ Kentucky where he will attend school for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Jacobson and son, Glenn, and Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Con-rad Jacobson of Ogden visited their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie M. Jacob-son, Jacob-son, Saturday and Sunday. Conrad and his wife both graduated from Weber Callee and now he has received re-ceived a call to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson and their children, Steve, Sue and Mike, of Boise, Idaho visited last week with their mother, Mrs. Ellis Anderson and other relatives and friends and with Helen's folks, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Oppenheimer and George A. Sampson at Delta returning re-turning to their home by way of Idaho Falls last Friday. Mrs. Ellis Anderson visited in Salt Lake the previous week with her daughter, Avis Stephenson, and family and a grandson Wayne Anderson who left by plane to Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson and family of Granger visited relatives are spending part of the summer in Oak Cily. They live in part ot their grandparents house. Kenneth She will leave soon to teach sum mer school at Kamas, Mrs. Mamie Anderson has her teaches Seminary at the Indian grandson, Michael Olson. of Rupert, Reservation in Montana and will attend school for awhile during the summer. Mr. and Mis. Finlinson were speakers at Sacrament meeting meet-ing Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Jacobson and Mr. and Mrs. Andy Mikesell of Cedar are visiting their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Maiben Jacobson. Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Mar-vin Flnlin.son were happy to receive re-ceive the news of a new granddaughter granddau-ghter born June 15 to Bp. and Mrs. Gerald Finlinson at Denver, Colo. There are three brothers and a sister awaiting to greet the little newcomer to their home. Miss Trudy Finlinson went to Denver to help care for the family while the Idaho visiting her for awhile Mis. Louisa Lovell has her dau ghter, Murium Millman and children, child-ren, David, Linda, Laurel and Uiuise of Clearfield, visiting a few days. Mrs. Laurel Prishy and sons of Salt Lrke are visiting her father, Mr. George II. Anderson. Miss Margo Nielson of Salt Lake visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Nielson. Beth returned with her to visit a few days. Miss Janet Morris of Hinckley spent the weekend with her grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Margaret Roper. The Oak City west half of town is entertaining the east half of town on Saturday at a pizza party two Mormons, and a great many ? X " " ..1,f," .t cattle. All of this of course to give e ers raised V comoanv and BSte MSnstoks uil aTyTo lelS kepetf-coBrUralede wSn Wteen horlfs jS'" belnged were slaughtered at Walker's burial t0 the Indlans themselves, high in the mountains, presumably But f this proved merely a scare, these, like the two faithful wives, more serious developments came were his own. as the Blackhawk War flared into For more than a uecaae there fullscale violence. Across the Pah-were Pah-were undoubtedly many days filled vant Mountains in Sevier and San-wiih San-wiih TnHian nnrt mnr niirhta pete counties, the Indian leader long with watching. Not until the close of the Black Hawk War would peace come permanently across the valleys. Through the remainder re-mainder of the 1850's, there were occasional incidents, during most of the 1860's there was a state of general alarm. 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Because they are inside the plant, they do not kill the bee populations . . . and protection can't wash off or blow away. See your dealer today for . details on these quality Blue Bullseye products from Chemagro! s spread the fu.l savagery of his attack at-tack upon the white settlements. Millard County for the. most part escaped the direct attacks, but one corner of the county was vulnerable. vulner-able. North of Salina, the Indians had easy access to Round Valley, and in this valley were many cattle and horses. That they crossed even into Pahvant Pah-vant itself is evidenced by the fact that on June 9, 1866, Wise Cropper and Oliver Harris, a couple of young range riders in the northern part of the valley, were suddenly surrounded and threatened with ambush. However, through grim Pahvant Indians. The historical and friends Friday and Saturday. consequences of this act are well known: following the Indian logic that one white traveler is as good a revenge victim as another, a party of the slain Indians' tribe attacked Captain Gunnison, killing him and a number of his men. A few years later another company of emigrants caused even more troub.e and became involved in an even greater historical tragedy. Firsthand reports suggest the character char-acter of the Fancher Party. As the travelers approached Fillmore, local boys out herding cows accompanied accompa-nied them. One of the boys, Thomas Thom-as Cropper, took up a dare to ride one of their wild steers, and ended up in a mill pond. Besides the wild ride, Cropper remembered hearing a man boasting about helping to kill Joseph Smith and wanting to go back and "take a pop at Old Brig." Beyond Fillmore," at Meadow Creek ridge, other boys reported that some of the emigrants took their lunches away from them. More serious was the death of the cattle. One report says that by playfuLness or compassion, the . a spring at the Meadow Creek boys were given their chance. The s'.oughs, "a couple of Mr. King's Indians held their fire until the cattle lay dead after the departure boys had a head start. And when 'of the company." Another reports the shooting began, the boys were! tells of cattle dead around the Big luckly enough to escape. Spring at the Corn Creek sloughs. This happened one day before Both reports tell of the death of the killing of James Ivie and Henry j young Proctor Robison. After skin-Wright skin-Wright in Round Valiey. On June'ning the dead cattle, he scratched 10th, Blackhawk and his warriors a pimple on his face or rubbed his swept down past Round Valley eye (the accounts differ), suffered Lake (Scipio Lake), killed Ivie and severe swelling, and died. Indians young Wright, gathered 300 head appropriating the meat are also of horses and cattle, and poured supposed to have died, back up the canyon through which From the historian the whole they had come. When word reached affair at this point is complicated Fillmore, a posse set out. Picking : by uncertainty. Rumor has it that up Cropper and Harris, at Cedar the Fancher people had poisoned Springs, the men rode in hot pur- the spring or springs, but such a suit along a trail marked by many claim is seemingly beyond final Mrs. LeRov Anderson had trouble with her eye so had to have surgery sur-gery again. Best wishes Martha for a successful and speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. LeRay Pratt and son visited with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Roper over the weekend. LeRay returned to his home In Ogden leaving Mina and son to be with her parents during the week. Mrs. Genevieve LaFevre and children of Tropic visited her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Anderson mother is away and recuperating. This Is another fund raising project Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Shipley were nnd wl11 hl,':l llt the hall lawn, recent Salt Lake visitors with their' -Mr- nn(l Mrs. Meldon Anderson daughter, Verna May Drollinger " children of McGill, Nev. and and family ; an(t rs- L.aMr Anderson of Bishop George Talbot of Denver, Provo and RBr nave bopn visiting Colo., and Mr. and Mrs. Reed Tal- teheir parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin bot of St. George visited their mother, Mrs. Mae Shipley a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Newell Anderson are visiting their mother, Mrs. Helen Anderson. Mrs. Vern Nielson had her Peterson Peter-son grandchildren while their per-ents, per-ents, Jess and Virginia, were vacationing vaca-tioning last week. They returned home for the weekend. Steven and Alice and children were also visiting visit-ing the Nielsons over the weekend from Tooele. The MIA held their sandhill party par-ty at last. They have tried several times and been rained out. Everyone Every-one had a good time. Each family took their own lunch and enjoyed the evening by playing ball and just having a good time. Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Anderson were Salt Lake visitors. They attended at-tended the wedding of a grandson, John Lovell, returning home Friday. The Priesthood people hauled hay Friday evening. They report having hauled over five hundred bales and having lovely crops. Mrs. Larson, Ranae Christensen's mother of Manti, stayed with the children while Ranae attended school the past two weeks. A wedding reception was held for Mr. and Mrs. Phil (Marjorie Roper) Lovell of Leamington recently with lofs of friends and many useful gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Junius Anderson hosted a wedding reception for "Anderson for several days, The family of Mr, and Mrs. Eldon AiideVson was ' aving .slipper In the canyon when Jodl, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Hryco Finlinson, met with an accident. She came off the mountain too fast and ran Into a pile of limbs puncturing her leg. She was taken to the doctor and had it sl itched. We hope she will soon feel belter. Mrs. Dean Anderson and Alice Anderson were in Salt Lake Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday. Alice was In the hospital and had minor surgery. She is doing well at present. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson have added a foster daughter into their family. Miss Wilnn Wixom and Dixie Dutson were visitors from Salt Lake of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Dutson for Father's Day. Mr. and Mrs. John Wright of Provo visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Dutson for Father's Day. The Relief Society presented handkerchiefs to the fathers of the ward at Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Talbot and daughters of Ogden visited with Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Talbot over the weekend recently. Cloyd and Emma Em-ma went to Tropic to attend tho funeral of Ronald and Christine Adair who were drowned at Willard Bay. Mrs. Adair was a cousin of Emma's. RECEIVES AWARD Miss EIRue Alldredge, Oak City, was the recipient of the Thunder-bird Thunder-bird Achievement Award at College of Southern Utah at the completion comple-tion of school. The Thunderbird is the school newspaper on which 'their daughter, Ellen Kae and Mr, Miss Alldredge worked. 'Steven Allred on Friday evening. They were married in the Salt Lake Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Muir and LDS Temple Friday morning. four children of Heber City were ; ; visitors Saturday at the home of Mrs. Zella Moody in Delta. I BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE Resort Sub-division hi: vsownrv piiiced (Terms if desired with 10 down) ELECTRICITY AND WATER AVAILABLE Swimming pool and playground equipment for use by property owners BOAT RAMP LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF DELTA "Let me show you the property and facilities at SHERWOOD SHORES" . BETTY KELLY, MANAGER Any day of the week between 10:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. SHERVOOD SHORES DELTA, UTAH 84624 (Phone 864-2571 or 864-3791) proof. What proof, however, is the enmity the emigrants left in their wake. For many Utahns, both red-men red-men and white, their massacre at Mountain Meadows must have seemed justly deserved. As if Indians and emigrants were not enough troubles to bear, the '50s saw the coming of still an-' other enemy of the stockmen. In' the summer of 1854, in many of the southern settlements, every vestige , of small grain was devoured by j grasshoppers and in April of the following year the grasshoppers again made their appearances in great numbers. During that sum- mer nearly everything green in the Pahvant Valley was destroyed.- (More next week) Drive si m Brack Baurgswim and get a Bargain , j Do You Work Cool at the Of f ice, Swelter at Home? Graduate to Electric Air Conditioning Are you enjoying electric air conditioning on your job? Why not bring that springtime freshness to your home where you spend more of your time. See your electric dealer or air conditioning contractor now. 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