Show NOW AND THEN r 1 6 Pioneers o of county had the tire Indians to content with and arid they were more or less troublesome up to 1857 after the Black Hawk war It was on October 23 1866 when an attack was made upon the home ot oh John Lee known as Hawthorne Hawthorne Haw Haw- thorne Dell Deli farm eight miles from Beaver when the Indians mule made a ade de desperate desperate- attempt to massacre the tho familY consisting of eight The attack was waEl made early In the morn morn- lag ing and a young man fell tell at tile the first volley from the Indians When the tire Indians made the tire assault Mrs Lee tired fired three shots bringing down downan an Indian each time Finally Charles Lee 8 years old and ani a 13 year old old c girl named Jane Hall Jail after pleading to be let out to togo togo togo go after help were permitted to 00 so and they both reached Beaver giving the alarm and a posse of whites s started for tor the Lee home hOllje bu bun the Indians had left They were followed however for tor sixty miles when they escaped Now Kow motor vehicles of which there are in the county whirl one to Beaver in l less sl than an hour Modern machinery has the old hand loom loomon on which the pioneers wove their rag carpets There is no frontier any more morein in Utah c |