Show r Salt Sail Lakes Indian Fighters Hold a Reunion I 4 cT 1 47 i q jj I J I II 47 4 4 I I I 1 l I t j w C r l p y 5 I wei t b j i t YAI S kH 5 a S 9 I C 1 t lr J S I IS 1 S From all sections of Salt Lake county men inert and women gathered in inthe inthe Inthe the Thirteenth ward meeting metting house home hou e last night They were men and women who made it possible for the generation to inhabit this peaceful val valley valley valley ley To them had hud fallen fatten the task of subjugating the savage and wresting from front the soil a competence for them themselves themselves selves and their posterity But last night they forgot their hardships their toll toil their suffering their age For them Time turned back his pages and once more the vere ere sturdy young men in from the ca Cs c ons for a dance The woi wot n around them were again the girls they had known In their youth and they danced as as gaily gally as though the years were but moments the decade but days daa It was the first annual dance of the Salt Lake camp of Indian war veterans and the event was all that could have been desired The affair affa r was a revelation to the youth who is accustomed to the ger german man meno the and the lancers of toda today There were no starchy musi musicians musIcians clans hidden behind a bank of pains no tasseled no men m itt evening clothes or women in full dress dres The airs were Money Musk and Miss McClouds Reel and Old Dan Tucker and a host of others to which flying feet kept time when the war whoop of the Indian was more common than the whiz of daYs t trolley car carSome carSome carSome Some of the men limped as they went through the figures of the quadrilles as called by b Bishop Empey and Adam Paul Some were ere out of breath at the conclusion of the measure but all att were boys again and right gallantly did they play the part And the rec ree recollections recollections that they called up as they th y danced and between the dances Joshua Terry 75 years old and as fine a figure as ever eer took part in a grand march told of his experiences during a life tife of nine years among the Indians Mr Terrys son succeeded Washakie as chief of the Shoshones and he had hada a right to speak with authority on In Indian IndIan Indian dian So did they all aU for that mat ter for every man of them had taken part in more than one skirmish or I battle with the red aed men There was Bishop Empey whose I blanket rolled and tied to his saddle I I I prevented four bullets from entering I his back in a skirmish with the Go shutes between the Jordan river and the Saltair bathing pavilion Only there any Saltair Satt ir in those days Samuel Bateman stopped between dances to tell of the meeting of Chiefs Walker Valker and zuid Washakie in the tithing house yard and other reminiscences I poured from the old timers in a stream that had no ending The hall hail was WIlS simply decorated in the th I I national colors A great flag hung over the north wall of ot the building and streamers of bunting were around wherever a decorative effect could be attained The veterans assembled ear early early early ly for the time has come when they like JIke to go to bed at seasonable hours Adam Paul called for f r order at 8 I He asked Samuel W Rich Richards Richards Richards ards to offer prayer Mr Richards gave thanks for the privilege of seeing so many of his comrades assembled and asked that they be spared for forman many man more years of usefulness Then Department Commander Westwood of Springville was delegated to lead the grand STand march and the band struck up upa a quickstep That band hand was Vas a study Every one of Its five members was was a veteran The leader was H C Pender better known as Hop I started to playing the violin in 1840 in Nauvoo said eald Mr Pender and Ive been bee playing It out here these last fifty yi y ars rs Another violinist was S W Alley who dates back to 1840 is Another was John W Anderson a tyro with only forty years experience Then came James V Standing who has played a flute In the veterans band since 1870 and John W Anderson since 1868 The band played any dances that I were called for just as they used to todo todo toI I I do in the old days There were few waltzes and none non of the other round I I dances Every other set was a quad rifle rille and once Bishop Empey called a lancers But it t was in the reminiscence line that the veterans were at their th lr best Could I talk the t e Shoshone language repeated Joshua Terry In answer a to toa toa toa a question Ive sat in many of their councils and Ive heard people say they tell by listening outside the tepee whether I was talking or whether er It was one of the Indians I went out to live JIve with the Sho She Shoshones Shoshones not long after fter I came to Utah I knew old very well The Shoshones treated me all right for I always treated them as well as I knew how My son with pardonable pride is chief of the th Shoshones ShoShone now He never took tool an Indian name but goes goesby goesby goesby by the name of o i George Terry In spite of his 75 years Mr Terry gets around as well ivell as men of 50 Mr Terrys reminiscences started Bishop Empey J think some of the themen themen men are here who thO W o were wore with me In March 1858 during dur d g a right lively skir skirmish skirmish skirmish mish we had with the across Jordan he said It was a warm fight and I dont ont Understand ld how we all got out of it alive but bu we did That night when I went to toO unroll my blanket to tomake tomake tomake make my bed I 1 If found und four f ur bullets in it They would have bave gone into i o me It if it been for the blanket My Aly Iy bridle wan was also shot sot to pieces and the theother theother theother other men suffered tre r 4 in the same flame way Bishop Empey ed that the snow was very deep that year and the party had difficulty In finding the trail trall back to town Their object o was to punish the for cattle tattle stealing and they did it very successfully Were you in the tithing yard when they the brought Chief Walker and Wash Washakie Washakie Washakie akie in to settle their differences aske asked Samuel Bateman of W W Cal Calder Calder Calden der den Mr lIr Calder said he was there and then the two went over the story It was agreed said aid Mr Bateman that neither chief chi f should have any weapons on his person Walker was treacherous and Washakie knew It I remember they sat down on the ground i close together and Washakie fixed a I keen k en look on an Walker All of a a sudden he made a ri jump for Walker Before Walker could do any anything anything anything thing Washakie reached under his blanket and pulled out a tomahawk Then he threw it as far as he could I never will forget that scene When he had thrown away Walkers tomahawk Washakie sat down without a word or ora ora ora a grunt and the council was begun All were agreed that the oldest of Or Orthe the veterans present was Mr Terry The honor of or being the youngest lay between Dr Richards and County Count 9 Commissioner C Harker Both fought Indians at IB 16 in the last Jast of the Black BlackHawk BlackHawk BlackHawk Hawk wars of 1867 They were not the youngest who saw active however There was a hush in a little knot of veterans while somebody told of the killing of Heber Houtz a lad of 15 Huntz in company with Major Vance Nathan Tanner and Captain O 0 j I IP P Miles were traveling from Fort I Gunnison to a camp of the volunteers at Twelvemile creek when whoa they the y were I attacked by Indians They made a stand and fought bravely against overwhelming odds Houtz and Vance I were slain but Tanner and Miles es as escaped escaped The former ormer is still alive and a citizen of Ogden S The dances were interspersed with other numbers Between whiles Mr Paul Introduced V Harrison and Lee who sang gang In Our Leaky reaky Tents We Ve Sit a ballad of the campaign days da s Then Jesse West made madean an interesting talk on the Walker war I giving some entertaining personal reminiscences of the great Indian leader Next N t Mr Paul recited an original poem with splendid effect Ed Ashton recalled the first Indian wars in Utah I to his hearers and Henry Bird talked on Lot Smiths raid on the Indians in inthe Inthe inthe the eastern part of the state At the i conclusion of the delicious refreshments were served and the vet veterans veterans veterans erans and their families departed firm firmin firmin firmin in the conviction that a similar en entertainment entertainment entertainment must be given at least once a year |