Show indian fighter tells thrill ing story of encounter hear near salt lako lake city the club from the rifle ct cf a bloodthirsty ute misted missed its marc say ft ay back in 53 and as re r suit stilt john 11 woodbury a p ol 01 47 Is now able to relate his personal pers crial experiences in early ini in i dian than uprising in utah although the bullet missed wood bun his hi mule was not so an fortunate and ed alth ith the collapse ol 01 his steed seed laced the nic essit of running and running fast last to krep keep his ha r on ilia ills exl or of the early elivs were rf rp called to the mind ot of mr air woodbury wood bury as a result of the covered wagon dais dass celebi atlon to be held in salt lake city july 24 20 alch which he ua attend together with alth other pioneers pione ol 01 47 as a guest of honor it a ass during the back black hank hak u war ar that mr air woodbury escaped the deadly intent of a arring utah 1 I 1 thought I 1 was as going to miss that war in the first place he aid said 1 I told cm ein I 1 leave lesie and I 1 gave ruie me dollars to help in fitting out some ore else then toward oward evening henry denoo ly and thomas mcclellan came around and anted wanted me to take my j team and drive drie come some of 0 the men to camp bout sixty of us sent ent from the city futa as infantry and ten on horseback when ne vie got to a camp between big anu little cottonwood canyons nobody anted wanted me to go f b back ack so I 1 s went ent on with cm em and e i all camped at the head of spanish fork canyon nearly a month ne indians had been dri driving 1 ing off cattle and horses of the settlers and taking them up into the straw strawberry berry we camped along tl 0 e indians trails and tried to head them oil off but after we e had been there a month and hadn haan t seen any Rad skins we vre got kind of ca carless rIess car less one day when all the fellows on hor hore hores es were ere out and there aan t many of us left in camp gorge TArn lambert bert rushed in and said he had I 1 ai i t seen a bir bl aadland dog we it i a fintan in bearskin A little lar lafr v saw tome some figures moving in lie IP rush and when we bo at in they sent ft ent off we forrd mic raw fasin casin tracks end I 1 told em cn th ahn be a bonder onder u if s we e dont don t ec et indians before night right ji st as I 1 a arted out to round LP the horse I 1 heard a gun go off I 1 was on a mule and I 1 spurred him t D towards the cedars to see what ft hat the he trouble was a A couple of the fellows staggered out in the open the redskins it d got cm ent one of them a fello fellow named brown died before we could get him back to camp then I 1 saw sa the ii it diana riding toward us abing blankets to stamp stampe de the horses and shooting one of them get got the mule I 1 laas as through the lung and no nose but he sure missed me they had better guns than we se had and more of cm em we only had two long range rifles in the caina I 1 ran to get mine and as I 1 got into camp I 1 saw a buck lean over brown body ready to scalp him I 1 shot so and soa A he dropped bis his knife and ran for his horse we found the knife alter ants captain dewey sent two expire express riders to ut pleasant for belcoe help the indiana indians kept coming back an and we e had trouble with thera them ill all day they were part put of chief tribe he is as frendl and s huldra t have let his indiana indians attack ur it U he d been there but he ile ass as basay a ay and jim hia his son inlaw in tn law started I 1 in out the got away aay with ot of our horses before they sere ere through I 1 I 1 suppose they took the herd up to pah vie w or some place n neer ea r a and rid sold it for we e ketr saw any ol 01 em again mr air woodbury still has the gun un ie used on that day it Is a spring field loader rifle made in 13 with alth a fortl fort 1 ch burel I 1 con can shoot half a ale with it easily ht he said mr air buy y aso possesses a U S army sord sora tat 0 as made in IM 1865 john haskell woodbury MM was bom born sep embel 11 1345 on a farm which his family had pui lasca arm jwan smith in nauvoo 1111 1 illi ills 3 viere Ca Cat tharna harns rebecca an and thomm omas hobart woo bury ibid they ached with their on one emall ison eon in ra the alley of the oret pt salt t lake in september 1817 1847 ab about 0 ai ath the e first thim thing I 1 renumber ber mas moving from the old fort to our cabin down on the lot between fifth and sixth south nd rid first fira nd and second west eat it was as known AJ old orchard square as ny my father planted the first nursery in the state there I 1 V vent t to school down don on the corner cof ol 01 west I 1 empl and arid filth fifth south A man named as a the teacher parker boys c called ale led him ther the tides ides of fie tie room xi ere re c covered with and rid tb tho a top as brush lille the bow how cry we had log logs N th les legs in em I 1 for benches we were kings base I 1 one dai down by b the school house and miles romney vai was chasin me I 1 looked back to see how close he was and put my lie in a cedar hole they all tell fell over oer me I 1 was as laughing until I 1 tried to set get up and then the boys found I 1 couldn t walk alk they carried in home borne my leg a broken at the hip it took three men to get 11 I 1 back in place I 1 and I 1 lay in bed six seeks with a box bult around it for a cast it as such a R TION novelty elty that all the kids in town came to tec tee it U and they fetched me the hooping colan coi an and chicken pox he added n elfull the indian indians used to call me little white head when I 1 sot got 11 ai ll dressed up in my suit of 0 buck skin with a rabbit I 1 I 1 looked pretty tire fire MI his ha fanned farmed moat most of hi his life when he was a vera vcrs bov he a as tent sent down to hia his father fathers farn near murray to take care of stock and later wrt wert to weber and dixie lie ile moved moed to cranger on tae the site of his present home in 1893 his wife teho uhn dm dim spi erial berr aeo ago wai was karlh A bray end and of hia his nine children four are living they are catterine catt erane W edwedge redge wil ham hinry henry haskell and harrison Karr lson mr air and mrs alm E 11 or a ham of 0 l litts burt are in vernal verna I 1 mr air ora n m IE is assistant curator of boginy f the carneg e museum and ts is ere to make a collect im in of flowers and plants plant from the various vari caus plant zones of the range collection collections mil ill be made from the high desert to the alpine zone zones ot of the range iny lit he thus tar far corn plated work ark in th pinon pinion and juniper belt and are on 0 n the pine und and alpine belts mr air and mrs airs graham accompanied tl t e scientists to the dinosaur moru moni ment last seek rd made a trip on saturday with dr L C thorne and roy key kay to view the ephs phs in dry fork canyon |