| Show I J J n- n nf n f h e B Beginning e. e e g gin I n n. n n i n g 9 By B J. J Cecil Alter cr Slaving and Thieving Thieving- It pays pays to 10 adv advertise even among Indians Indians- and Solomon F F. Kimball says that after Sally the Indian slave girl was adopted into Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Youngs Young's family the Indians lost no time in circulating the news with the result that the market was soon ov overrun with captive children The redskins continued to torture them in the presence of ot the Saints says Kimball and to put puta a stop to this unnecessary cruelty cruelty cruelty cruel cruel- ty the pioneers made great sacrifices sacrifices fic in order to purchase th these se innocent innocent in sufferers Enoch R Reese e bought three President Wilford Willord Woodruff three and the Kimball family rescued three by purchases In fact all leading families that could possibly spare the means traded for tor one or more Once in a while the big bighearted hearted merchant Thomas S. S Williams would load a pack train with Indian Indi an trinkets which he traded to the different tribes for captive papooses pa says Kimball For a areas reasonable reasonable reas reas- amount he sold them to the settlers He presented to his daughter Mrs David P. P Kimball a handsome handsomB little girl by the name of VI Viroque roque She became a first class housekeeper and when grown married a much respected white whiteman whiteman whiteman man and had one child by him She was of the tribe located south of the Colorado river William H. H Kimball traded a horse for a little littleboy littleboy littleboy boy named Dave A year or or r two later the childs child's mother while passing pasS pass pas ing through Salt Lake City happened hap to discover r her long lost child She was so overjoyed at finding him that Williams William's heart was touched and he let her have her darling boy In later years the lad became prominent among the people of ot his tribe and finally became be be- came its chief chic and resided at the Indian farm in Skull vall valley y going by the name Dave Kimball Indian Camp In City The traffic In was wa kept up for several years Kimball says Civilization however ever was hard on the purchased children and most of them died young The girls made mad good housekeepers and the boys bos did their share of ot the outside work Most of them were honest but Kimball says lh the boys loved fire water r. r For several years after the pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley the Indians camped on the hill west of the present present pres pres- ent McCune School of Music Their principal burying ground hereabouts here herc was just north and west of ot the Lafa Lafayette school Many skeletons skeletons tons were unearthed in that vicinity vicin ity near or in what is still the private private vate vale cemetery of the Kimball family fam lam ily fly who reburied some Iome of these remains remains re reo re- re mains elsewhere Th The Indians were usually very impudent says Kimball Kim ball and stole everything they could lay their hands on and lift Elder IS Isaac lac C. C Haight writes on March 1 1 1948 There are many tribes of Indians or in inthe inthe inthe the mountains and end valleys Most of them are friendly but some have stolen a few of our cattle and horses A company of brethren have gone In pursuit of them Stealing Indians Whipped Patriarch j John hn Smith wrote his hisson hisson son son George A. A Smith on March 5 5 1848 that the Indians about Utah lake we learn were driving off oft our cattle We went to the marshal with 40 o armed men and an Interpreter Interpreter Interpreter Inter Inter- preter to ascertain the facts found they had driven and killed 15 16 he head ld of cattle and one horse We got one gun the only one they had whipped the two principal thieves and told them if they renewed their depredations w we would cut them all oft off The high council wrote BrIgham Young March 6 6 1848 that the marshal marshal marshal mar mar- mar with 44 men has just returned from visiting the Indians on the east cast side of Utah lake and reports that they had driven off ot and killed 17 head of our cattle and one horse The only compensation obtain obtained was one gun The chief whipped several of the band and end they promised prom to do better If It the marshal had not been sent out wi wIth wI h discretionary discretionary power and plenty of force torce the affair would probably have taken tak talc en a severer turn John writes in 1948 that thata a great number of ot Indians came me to the Warm Springs suffering from measles They died off about as fast as 83 they went into the water Some they buried and some they did not bury I helped to bury tho those e that were left leU unburied We buried 36 in in one grave and 44 dogs in another r. r Their custom was wu to 3 kill their dogs when their masters died This was the first t time me measles meas meas- les es appeared here It was a new disease to them and they did noL not know how to cure it or where they got it il John B Bennion wrote In Jn March 1848 that the Ute Indians v visit sit us ever every day more or legs They appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear poorer and moxe more wretched i ithan ithan than some we have seen EVIdently Evidently Evi dently comparing them with Indians Indi hidi ans seen on the plains east of the Rocky mountains Game here is scarce upon which they y depend for Cr flesh to eat and skins to cover them They live also on berries and end roots root They rhey come around our horses and pick up the and stuff of beef cattle and bones and a arid d' d when hungered hungered hun hun- will wilI pilfer if if they have a a chance At t pr present prent ent the Indians supply us buckskin for mens men's clothing and as soon as we can an raise flax the women will have to tomake tomake make their common we wear r. r The Indians Indians Indians In In- inhabit a pleasant valley about 50 miles south of oC here Daniel H. H Wells told Bancroft's compilers our people fraternized with the Indians a good deal and got quite familiar with them but they commenced their depredations killing cattle and so o forth They also would go to the houses and demand food and the women got frightened They were permitted in the fort tort just the same as anybOdy anybody any any- body else and ad they got quite saucy and unbearable to th the people who could no longer Conger stand it it Offer Oller to Sell Children In 1848 some Indians came inhere Inhere in inhere here with two Indian children offering oftering of of- f. f fering them for tor sale Wells con con- It appears that the tribes of and Wanship were at variance resulting in a fight between between between be be- tween them in which Wanship w was killed and among the other prisoners prisoners pris pris- these two children were taken tak en en and as as' as they kil their prisoners unless they can sell them th these se children were we're were offered for tor sal sale We always considered it cheaper cheap cheap- er to food and clothe the Indians than to fight then them end ond so long as we can gain access to them to feed them and so forth we we have no trouble with them but when they get et out of oC the settlements into the mountains there is danger of ot depredations depredations depre depre- by them |
