Show TO A talk colonel THE MILITIA OF UTAH gan receive pensions the brovo war old time remembrances colonel W H kimball of park city favored us with a pleasant call today to day this gentlemen came down aci look up some of hia old command in the indian flare of 10 and 1853 S E and ahei wilkins are among the members in this city through the efforts of mr kimball the members of the militia of the territory up to the advent of the john afons army ara entitled to draw pensions three million dollars have been added to the pension fund within the last two years and liberal provisions made in the pension law ho that it includes the survivors of the volunteer i service and their widows minor chil dreu and dependant parents A disable ing pension will ba paid to anch aurb rivurs and their widows orphans or dependent parents whether the dis ability wag sustained in an engagement or not colonel kimball has bad pome difficulty in getting the me of the utah militia on accous t 01 tho organization be camic lost ur destroyed at the time of ahe fire in the hooper and Et dredge in salt lake city but has succeeded through the aid J P and SI wright U 8 claim attorneys of D J who have authorized him to f ward them the jamea of the survive or their dependents of our early indian wars the colonel rec ommunda that 11 who may be entitled to pensions under the above provisions write to J P and S I 1 wright enclose a stamp far reply and a list bf questions will be forwarded for them to answer if after this list ir returned and examined it is found that the applicant comes within the provi siona f the pension or disabling acts their application will ba filed and for this a charge of 1 will be mada no fouther charge ia made till the pension is allowed when a fee of 25 will bf Kina ball went down to the lake last evening with mr wilkins and passed cloae by the scenes of his encounter with the indiana under COD mandof stick on the head which commenced february jtb isoland ISoO and con trued for three daya he liked his reception last evening better than bis first in provo and the mua c of the military band waa sweeter to the aged leteran than the memory of the whistling bullets of 1850 colonel kimball cams down in geo J grants company gjere be occupied the rank of lieuten a it this company was followed by a lother campany under the command ol 01 major andrew lytle when they arrived they found the indiana en carapel on the river bottoms they had possession of a log cabin near their fortification of cottonwood and wib strongly entrenched captain peter kownover Gow nover who is still with us was commander of the provo militia and joined forces with the salt lake on the morning of tho ath ope bairy came out of the indian fortification to have a peace talk while he was talking with lamick B huntington who had acme alona as an intern reier elk the chief opened fire on ilie the bit tie commenced the fight through that day and the towards the evening cf the lipsten int ICi and fifteen picked men were ordered to make a charge on the log cabin held by the in diaks the day was verv cold 35 dep delow beio in the act of crossing a creek the horses broke through the ice and tiie attacking party went of they came outtie indians fired on them ashani fann but the bouse was talen alter ile housa waa taken several of the horses were killed kimball was highly complemented by lieutenant howland of the U S army who was with captains Stana hury and hid been permitted to join the tor the bravery exhibited in the charge lieutenant Kiin liall and his dpn were removed from the house en the third day as there was danger of them fracz ine to death the fighting continued through hat day aid howarda the indiana departed but were afterwards pursued and many of tham wert killed only one white joseph F hibbel was killed we have not the space to give a full account ot this exciting battle bu many af our people remember it it ia doubtful however if we rem bember the part taken in those early scenes by men a few of whom are now livinia livi nir and the great obligations the country is under to them we will say that the war was a defensive one en the part of the citizens the indians having stolen their SOCK and fired on their numerous times and and at last the fort |