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Show SELECTED. UTAH INDIANS A REM1.MS-CENSE. REM1.MS-CENSE. A correspoDdent of the Salt Iake Herald, writing from Heber city, L'lab, August 3uth, gives the present i whereabouts of maoy of the leading ! Indian chiefs of that Territory. We quote: ''Tuts-si-gTiv-iLs, the Pah-ute chief, is dead, and his people are ou the rampage. Kanosh, the Pah-van chief, wiih ten lodges, is in the vicinity of the city bearing his name. JohnSear-rah, JohnSear-rah, Long Tom and three others, formerly for-merly Tvith Kanosh, have gone to Washakie. Pah-re-sboii3, of the region re-gion of Beaver is, or ought to be, dead; but I fear he is not," We had the displeasure of a somewhat some-what intimate acquaintance with tbe two first and the last chief named, in the Pall of ISoT. Tuts si-guv-its was the head ruler of the Piutes south of the rim of the great Interior Basin, commencing at Mountain Meadow and extending to the Colorado and Mohave rivers, in this Territory are several bands or tribes of Piutes, each bund having a chief of its own, but all bein subject to the pway of tbe head chicl. Tuts si-guv-its was a large, portly, benevolent looking old Indian, slow but eloquent in speech, and very dig-lied, dig-lied, lie was a Mormon, had several wives, and resided on the Rio Virgen, near Su George. His timely arrival at our camp cn the Santa Ciara river, one dark night in November, 1S57, saved our little party of five from massacre mas-sacre by over 300 of the Santa Clara tribe, under their black, athletic, sis-footer sis-footer chief, Jackson. Kanosh, chief of the Pah-vans or Parovans, was a Mormon Kider, and lived with his tribe of 260 warriors on Corn creek, twelve miles from Fillmoie city, lie was a handsome and intelligent intelli-gent Indian, always dressed in the hight of fashion; au absolute ruler; a dovout Christian and a blood-thirsty savage by turns, His tribe was the most active and warlike Indians in Utah, but devoted most of their time to stock raising and farming, after they had settled their eight years war with the -Mormons, The nest in command was Kanosh's brother Shot, who had received no less than eleven wounds in the Mormon war. lie killed two of our party (a young Virginian and an Irishman) about fifty yards from the Capitol building in Fillmore city. The unfortunate men had gone on a day or two ahead of the party on horseback, thinking their lives secure while in the Mormon settlements. Keaching r ill-more, ill-more, and learning the facts of their murder, we sent for Kanosh, showed him our pissports from Brigham Young, and made arrangements with him to accompany us two days to Beaver, paying him $25 per day. On leaving his tribe to meet us at Fillmore, he left Shot in command, with instructions to kill us if we attempted to pass before he returned. re-turned. Nest morning we started, in company with Kanosh, who was on horseback we having light spring wagons and four-mule teams, b'our miles short of Corn Creek we discovered discov-ered mounted Indians darting i'rom copes to copes of willows on the creek, all nearing the road. Kanosh concealed con-cealed himself I'rom their view by riding on the opposite side of a wagon. The creek runs down to within ;S00 yards of the road, then turns sou:hward and runs parallel for two or three hundred yards and sinks, a jungle of willows following fol-lowing its banks. When opposite the bend of the creek, about 125 warriors on foot darted out f.oui the brush and started on the double quick for the road in front of us. At the same moment mo-ment sixty mounted and painted warriors war-riors dashed out i'rom the willows nearest us, and, lying flat upon their horses and yelling like deamons, they came ior us wim tue spucu ui me wind. It was a critical moment, but as they emcrgci from tho willows Kanosh dashed out from his hiding place, rode rapidly toward them, and, throwing up both hands, commanded them to halt, which they did almost instantly. A runner wan then sent out to call in the footmen. The whole tribe drew up beside our teams, and were liberally supplied with tobacco, etc. Many of them were surly, howevcr,and would not accept presents I'rom the hated Gentiles or "Mericats." Puh-rc-shonts, an old and leading man of the tribe (having eleven grown sous), headed tho malcontents and went in lor .scalping us. We gave him about $30 worth of goods to pacify paci-fy him. The old scoundrel turned them over piece by piece, and smiled complacently. Directly he started in on another long, loud and incendiary speech, demanding that we should give each one of the tribo as much as wo had given him, else would he head tho malcontents and murder us in spito of Kanosh, the head chief. TJIiis touched the imperial dignity and tho pride of power in Kanosh, and ho, alter telling us to get every shot in readiness, told old Pah-re-shonts to call out his followers and "sail in," adding that, '"if you d"'' wll'P my. men and the 'Mcricats,' not a man ot you shall live to see the sun go down." Here was another crisis. The tribe began to separate the loyal riding and walking over to where their bravo chief sat upon his horse, with determination determi-nation marked upon every feature and beaming from his brilliant eyes, aud the malcontents taking their stand beside be-side old Pah-rc-shonts. Our little party of five had ninety-six ready shots, in ritle?, shotguns and six-shooters. Our wagon brakes were put down hard, and every barrel was pointed at the enemy. The division left Pah-re-shonts in the minority, and he weakened. weak-ened. Kanosh told us to drive on, and, turning to Shot, he said: "If any Indian attempts to leave camp until 1 return, shoot him on the spot 1" This was several years before General Dix issued a somewhat similar order. Two years ago we met in Treasure Citv two of the pons of Pah-re shonts : who confronted us at Corn Creek in November, 1607. Carson liegitter. |