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Show II FIGHTERlSr PEACE MAKER DIES Amnion M. Tenney, Indian v, . j veteran, peace delegate to the south- 1 ern Utah and Arizona tribes, piM-. settler of the southern part of th state and one of the best kr.cwn scouts of Utah and Arizona, diwl i Wednesday at Saffortl. Ariz., accord. i ing to word received by the FiNt j Presidency of the Church from mem bers of the family. Concerning hio I interesting career a close friend submits: sub-mits: the following: "With the passing of Amnion M Tenney, one of the most picture;quo j and best known of the scouts and ' pioneers of Utah and Arizona ha.- I passed. j "At the time of the founding of San Bernardino, Calif., by the 'Mormons' 'Mor-mons' under direction of Amasa M Lyman and Charles C. Rich, Nathan C. Tenney, among others, located at that place. When the plan for the j establishment of a 'Mormon' com-munity com-munity in California was abandoned, the Tenney family came to Utah and located in Washington county. Learned Spanish "Amnion, at the time was in his teens, and had, through contact with the Spaniards, acquired a good speaking speak-ing knowledge of Spanish, which was of great value to him, and the people of southern Utah and Arizona. "In the Indian war brought on by the invasion of southern Utah and Northern Arizona by the Navajos, who made the Piutes their allies, Amnion Tenney was one of the many minute men who held themselves in readiness to go at a moment's notice to the relief of those in danger, or to pursue and punish marauding bands of Indians who came in from the south of the Colorado. "While only a boy, he, single hand- ' ed, held at bay 14 Navajos near Short Creek, while his father and Enoch Dodge, both of whom were wounded, climbed into the rocks behind be-hind him. Ammon held the Indians off until darkness fell, when he led his father and companion to the settlement set-tlement in safety. "He was a trusted lieutenant of Capt. James Andrus, the great Indian fighter of the south, and was with him in the fight on Kaibab mountain, soon after the killing of James M. Whitmore and Robert Mclntire, at Pipe Springs. He was an active participant par-ticipant in the battle of Bull Rush, just south and east of Pipe Springs, when the Navajos suffered a disastrous disast-rous defeat. Sent on Treaty Mission "After the war ended he went with Jacob Hamblin to Fort Defiance, in Arizona, to arrange peace. He was one of the party of seven sent by , Brigham Young in 18 7 5 on a mission to the Indians of Arizona and Mexico, and when colonists were sent to establish settlements in Arizona was an outstanding figure in blazing the trails and establishing colonies in that territory. "While he was a man of unsurpassed unsurpas-sed courage, a natural born soldier, who never faltered when danger threatened, he was also an apostle of peace, and wherever he went bore strong testimony to the divinity of the mission of the Redeemer of the world, and to the divine mission of Joseph Smith and the truth of the record contained in the Book of Mormon. "A scout and soldier, as well as a peace maker, he was one of that type of men who did so much toward the winning of the west. He has gone into the presence of the' Master, whose devoted follower he was, where he will receive the reward to which his splendid life entitled him." Deseret News. |