| Show I i J t IN EH Y UTAH Iss rt I 1 t = = = = = I Amatonr Ihcat1lcll larinfitc tit ro An India I ThioIPlan iov n BaoioHov IJnngor I Wns Averted J = I l f to the Lditor I II J I mention a few incidents which maybe I l may-be of interest to those who like to gather reminiscences of our early Territorial Ijr I history though lulling to the general I reader they were of interest in early t times in fact quite important in our Isolated Iso-lated condition If I The Tint performance by anannteur theatrical company eoulb of Provo was I given in Parowan Juno J4th 1854 when the Ila rowan Draimtic Association i presented t pre-sented I Wisher and Crasher and The i Village Lawyer to an audience of over 11f two hundred persons Tickets 35 cults 1 total receipts J675 The small receipts 11 I show that nearly all the audience were I II deadheads Each performer being at liberty to Invite his friends free charge the number of relatives developed was i J astonishing The association played ill Jb several years and with much better 11 financial success The scenery was painted by the writer and tire woodwork rnt fin rdelb nt work of side scenes curtain 8C was done by David and Benjamin duff 1 j iI f formerly of Provo In July 1854 wM finished a basis viol made for the writer by lIrnabas Carter which I believe was the first musical instrument strument made in Utah It was of Rood lone and finish and cost IJo i in September 1854 145 w1 raised to remount our brass field piece a s x pounder alio money to procure 1 new Ujunderaho nrd er Ir United Stilts flag and fjJS to procure Instruments for a brass brand An Indian massacre was narrowly averted on Friday September 23 1854 and is i here mentioned to show how un certain ill all times were our Indian relations rela-tions An Indian who had btolen a horse from reason Lewis was pursued by him 1 andhisbrother Samuel Lewis John lien derson and a MeXIcan and after a felt mile clmo was captured and brought I back to the fort At the Kite stood a crowd of Indians who supposed the thief VMS to be executed and were greatly excited by his appeals to them for help They demanded his release flourished their I guns Hid twang < < 1 their bow strings but the boys brougnt their prisoner into the fort and placed a strong guard over him himTbe school house in which he was guarded was witched I by the natives ill 5 Ybthe r day 1 hue I wire only about twelve or fifteen men In Ihe fort all the lost being absent some in tile canons others on the range and the rest at work on their farms in the held and while the men In the fort deliberated as to what should 1 1 be done with the Indian the list of the tribe laid a trials to imssacre ill l the Jan h uf whites and burn the place should any harm come to their friend Their plan wa will devised Men were placed in ambush in the canyons to kill the I men is they singly I l ec along r with their loads others Iy I in wait along the roads leading Irom the field to shoot men as thlY should come along one by one and that none might escape from these snares six or eight men wiresti tiond at each of the four piles to kill i any who might enter having escaped outside dangers These disposed of hey thOught itn easy ntter t0am5lAyr the fel men In Ihe I caU and Iho omen 1 and children over too in number Hut oft all thee feaful preparation the Mormons were I bliss ully IEIIO ml tit it They no TcZTfloaaAli u t the gitcs but thought nothing of it while those In the field and eanyous knew nothing ol the trouble A decision was Inlly I readied to let the thief go free war tie not to s ead l again on pent of 1 hli life nnd he was ieletsed With him r went ail 1 the Indians and all was so cne ag nfjils Not long afterwards the Indnns I told us their plans w ich they would su ely I have cirned out 101 bloody conclusion had their friends lif been taken as they leircd They tould easily have killed dil eo td rlft ho outside many if not all those m were the lot is they came homeward one by one without smpicio i of out Play land r rj could Have niiili bloody vvo k I Inside the fort ill of which wis p cvenled by let tinr the Indian go free though some or pocd ll urging tint an example should nrt Coed urlng ll1 rn h be made of him Hut In this as t many other times the Fuller overruled all for the good of Hii I people President lohn C L Smith who wM I that day in the c nvoil told me that he had never be ore felt afraid but as he I pissed certain l i group of thick k cedi he 1 leI i an undefined fear looking all shout him We found afterwards tint five Indians lay there In mbuh I bul they rrl eelr kmi hid refrained from killing htmlhey siiil llicy didnt know whj sailtlluzy I George A Sm th then ol the council of ptles just arrived had a talk wlh the Inuhns on Tuesday September J6th 1854 I hey were very saucy and hoisted of their misdeeds even ton attempt to kill him and demanded tribute from the settlers in the future On the net day Ihe people uinnlmoifsly voted to drop all work except ex-cept the saving of their grain and tarmh the wall as it Ind not jet reached its ti full height il all twelve t I rete and from tins time work upon il con inued upon it un lit it w is done Tills was n great llbor for Ihe few colonists in nddtioillo tint already devolving epon them in making IaZ roads Irrigation duches clearing land ii and their firming labors I but the people worked with a will knowing that II lit knowinr Fth hl I would add greatly lo their safety The will was of dimpened earth and straw solidly I compacted t and became in lime is solid i as an adobe It filled all tea quirimcnls > until ihe necessity fur It no I longer existed J II MARTINEAU |
