Show J K Know Utah By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS 0 I Emigrants on their way to southern California were charged with robbing ranchers and tind Dd with other Irregularities irregularities ri tics and with using abusive language langua c when re remonstrated remonstrated remonstrated re- re with wrote Jacob Hamlin in his Journal It was WIlS also reported that thc the emigrants had announced announced announced an an- that the army reached the northern end of the y that the thc emigrants woud oud get getgood getgood good outfits from the weaker settlements In the south Appeal was made to Brigham Brig Young as to what action to o take and i it is said that he Issued general Instructions Instructions instructions to the settlements to let the emigrants pass as quietly as possible pointing out that there was an army on the borders of the territory and that the thc future could not be foreseen Brigham Young further pointed out that the settlers might be under the necessity necessity ne ne- ne of going into the mountains and that he wished all supplies of food to be available a in such an emergency emergency emer emer- gency genc but that the settlers would do the best possible S S S Regarding the Mount Mountain in Meadows massacre the Bleak Journal says Brother Haskell and Elder EIder Ham- Ham bun blin lin on their way home to southern Utah learned that an Arkansas company of or emigrants emigran had been destroyed at Mountain Meadows by the Indians that the Indians attacked the company and that some other white men Joined them in the perpetration of the he d deed This Information was given them by John D. D Lee This deplorable affair caused cawed a sensation of horror and deep regret throughout the entire community com coni- where It was unqualifiedly condemned S S S SAt At Cove creek others were met from the south and they hey told Hamblin that the Indians were were gathering to attack another party of emigrants Elder Hamblin then hen procured a 0 horse left the wagon and rode day and night to Cedar City where he joined Samuel Knight and Dudley Leavitt whom he sent ent on after he tho emigrants to make every e effort to save the company company com corn pany and their lives at all aU hazards S S S The two men overtook o the company miles mUes from Cedar City on Muddy creek in the heart of the Indian country and found a large body of excited Indians preparing to attack and destroy them Finding it Impossible Impossible Im- Im possible x to control the Indians they compromised the matter The Indians agreed to take only the loose stock tock of the company and not meddle with the thc teams and wagons and make no effort cHort to take their lives The number of livestock aggregated head On the way aj to California Elder Hamblin Induced the In Indians Indians Indians In- In to turn over to him the stock that had not been n killed This agreement was carried out S S S SLater La Later r In the Autumn says the record another mother company of or merchants was met by Elder Hamblin who had a letter from Brigham Young directing Hamblin to see that the party was gotten safely to California The party was really fleeing ing tag from the territory to the eastern states by way of California and the isthmus The order was vms carried carried car car- ried led out |