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Show The FateofTIajor PovriU'i Mtu. It will be retiieDjbored thar !at year three of Major Powell Colorado exploration explo-ration party ltft him a:i3 w:re killed by Iudian. We Cod the following concerning the tragic affair in the Teo-verAr, Teo-verAr, and it affords another illustration illus-tration of the sad results which so often f jllow the bloody acts of reckless reck-less wh.tes, these men having 'ost their lives iu eon-e.iuence of tho murderous act of a party of drunken miners. The Mr. Hamblin referred to is Mr. Jacob Hamblin of the southern mission : M ijor Powell writes the following information in-formation about the murder of the How-lands How-lands and Dunn, oi his party, last year by Shiowits Indians, in Utah. He managed man-aged to obtain an interview with some of the tribe, and after gaining their confidence received the following statement state-ment : ''Lastyear we killed three white men. Had men said they were our enemies. They told great lies. We thought them true. We were mad. it made us big fools. We are very sorry. I )o not think of them; it is done; let us be friends. Mr. Hamblin fell into conversation with one of the men and held him until the others had left, and then learned more of the particulars of the death of the three men. They came upon the Indian vil age almost starved and exhausted ex-hausted with fatigue. They were supplied sup-plied with food and put on their way to the settlements. Shortly after they had left an Indian from the east side of the Colorado arrived at their village and told them about a number of miners mi-ners killing a squaw in a drunken brawl, and no doubt these were some of the men. No person had ever come down the canon; that was impossible; they were trying to hide their guilt. In this way he worked them into a great rage; they followed, surrounded the men in ambush, and filled them full of arrows." |