Show r t nth t the h e Beg Beginning e g I inn n n i n g 9 By By 7 Cecil Alter Indian Slaves and Servants The classified columns under Help Wanted was no place to advertise advertise ad ad- ver vertise se for an Indian maid references references refer refer- required small wages to start or good home for right party and so forth for the Indians couldn't read and besides they had no telephones no permanent address they couldn't be found when wanted Fact is if you resided on the frontier and needed competent kitchen help you waited for an Indian war After the massacre massacre the Indian offspring were driven off olf like dogs livestock and other spoils by the victors and b by them marketed for keeps to the highest bidder amongst the white settlers It was a great system only when in sudden need of or some little Orphan Orphan Or Or- phan Annie to come to ones one's house to lo stay to wash the cups and saucers up up and brush the crumbs away and shoo shoe the chickens porch and dust the hearth and sweep and make the fire and bake the bread and earn her board and omd keep it wasn't right to have to await a first-class first producing orphan Indian war and the auction days to follow Callow And yet badly ns as one might desire an Indian Orphan Annie inthe in inthe inthe the home one could not with a clear conscience even hint that the Shoshones for in instance ought to be attacked because of the plethora and md superiority of their maids Counsels Honorable Dealing But let the pioneers tell us how it was done first first considering an epistle to the Saints in the Great Salt Lake valley written by Brigham Young on September 9 1847 on his way back to winter quarters When the are about you will Keep your gates closed and not admit them within the walls So far as you come in contact contact con con- tact with willi them treat them kindly NOT FEED THEM or trade with them or hold familiar Intercourse Intercourse intercourse Inter inter- course with them in the city But if you wish to trade with them go goto goto goto to their camp and deal with them honorably the epistle said aid At a meeting of the high council In the Salt Lake valley on October 11 1347 1847 it Hit was decided that Thomas Williams Ebenezer Hanks and Charles Shumway should trade with the Indians in behalf of the people for the time being Orrin P. P Rockwell was permitted to trade with the Indians at his pleasure Then at a B high council meeting held Sunda Sunday October 24 1847 James JamesT T. T Hirons of the Mormon Monnon battalion was called before the council for lor lorI I trading with an Indian without perV per per- it Ii V Z J i 1 t Ji 1 t 1 Iw I t f q L mission and it was reported the Indian was dissatisfied After Hirons made his statement he was reprimanded for going among the Indians alone and without need President Smith decided Hirons should return the pony to the Indian Indian In- In dian or to Mr Goodyear and get his things within two days decision sustained The Story of Sally It was Mary Ellen Kimball that gave us the earliest slave girl story of the early winter of 1847 A uA numb number r of Indians were camped near the Hot Springs of oC the Fort she writes They had with wilh them a little girl who had been captured from another tribe and they offered to trade her for a rifle Fire arms were scarce with the pioneers and besides it was not good policy to arm these cruel savages who might at any time turn on those who had armed them The uThe Indians finally began to torture torture torture tor tor- tor- tor ture the little one at the same time declaring they would kill her unless unless un un- un less the rifle rile were forthcoming One of our pioneer boys Charles Decker whose heart was wrung by witnessing such cruelty very reluctantly reluctantly re re- re parted with his only gun He took the little girl home and gave her to his sister Clara D. D Young Brighams Brigham's wife They named her Sally and she lived in inthe inthe inthe the family of President Youn Young until she had grown to womanhood Afterwards she married a noble and friendly Chief Chic named Kanosh She made him a good wife and did much towards civilizing him He joined the Mormon church and died a faithful Latter Latter Day Day Saint That winter several were purchased under similar circum i stances Another Version Another version of or this S same deal with Its interesting sequel is told by John R. R Young Soon after we had moved onto our city lot in the fall of 1847 a band of Indians c camped near us Early one morning we were excited at hearing their shrill curdling blood war whoops mingled with occasional sharp cries of pain Father Lorenzo D. D ent sent me to the Fort ort for help Charley Decker and Barney Ward t the e interpreter and others hurried t to the Indian camp It was Wanship's band Some of his braves had just returned from the war path In a fight with Little LittleWolf's LittleWolf's Wolfs Wolf's band they lost two men but bul had succeeded in in taking two girls prisoners I t u L f 4 i ii i t l One of ot these they killed and were torturing the other To save ave her life Charley Chancy Decker bought her herand herand herand and took her to our house to be washed and clothed She was the saddest saddest looking g piece of humanity I have ever seen They had shingled her head with butcher knives and fire brands All the fleshy parts IO of her bod body legs and arms had been hacked with knives and the fire firebrands firebrands firebrands brands had been stuck in her wounds She was gaunt with hun hunger er erand and smeared from head to foot with blood and ashes After being washed and clothed hed she was given to President dent Young and became one of his family Subject of Romantic Story They named her Sally and her memory has been perpetuated b by bythe bythe the courtship of Kanosh a pioneer Indian 10 love e story story written by my gifted cousin Susa Young o ng Gates But Susa gave us only th the courtship while the ending of S Sallys Sally's life as told to me by a man man from Kanosh was vas as tragic as as her childhood days had been thrilling After Alter she married Kanosh several years ears of her life lite passed pleasantly in the thew w white ite mans man's ho house se which he built for o her Then her Indian husband took to himself another wife who became jealous of Sally and Sally and perhaps perhaps per per- haps hated haled her also for lor her white whiteman whiteman whiteman's man mans man's s ways sways Murder l and Expiation One day when they were cre in m ai secluded place digging the new wife wile murdered Sally and buried the body in a gully When Kanosh missed her he took her track and followed it as faithfully lly as 35 a bloodhound could have done and was not long in finding the grave In his grief he seized the murderess and would have hav burned her her- herat at the stake but white men in In In- In due time the Indian woman confessed her guilt and in in harmony with Indian justice offered to expiate her crime by starving herself to death tiThe The offer was accepted and ona on ona a lone hill in sight of the village a was constructed of dry timber Taking a jug of ot water the woman walked silently toward her living grave One night when the evening beacon fire was not seen by the villagers a runner was di dis dispatched dispatched patched to fire the and retribution was complete S Sallys Sally's funeral had taken talen place only a day or r two previously Over Overa a hundred vehicles followed the remains to their last resting place oJ V. 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