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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICtE- Tfi Millard County Chronicle Published every THURSDAY at Delta, Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. H. '(Bob) RICING PUBLISHER INEZ RIDING EDITOR ) Entered as Second Class matter at the Postoffice at Delta. Utah, under the Act of Congress. March 3, 1879 Subscription Rate $4.25 a year In Advertising Rates ux suit ON DRIVING COURTESY A SAFETY MESSAGE from Dodge's TV "Sheriff" JOE HIGGINS Funny how some folks can be polite, courteous ladles 'n' gentlemen until they get behind the wheel of an automobile. Somethin' seems to come over 'em and you can almost see the devil horns V fangs poppin' outta their heads. Never could understand how some folks can come out of church on Sunday then get all red-faced, honkin' horns, cussin', and cuttm' other folks off gettin' outta the church parkin' lot Don't get all riled up and churnin' inside if you're cut off or the fella up ahead is a little slow. If you're in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it don't hurt none to let the fella waitin on the side street into the traffic flow. iThe Golden Rule is mighty old but it ain't never gonna be outta style treat other folks like you like to be treated yo'self. You'll feel better for it somethin' like havin' the Christmas feelin' all year 'round. A polite driver is a safe driver. Ya'II drive careful now, heah! LEGAL XOTiCES NOTICE I hereby serve notice that the following offices are those for which candidates are to be nominated nom-inated at the Primary Election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of September, 1970 in the County of Millard: One member of the Utah House of Representatives. One member of the Utah State Senate. One Justice of the Utah Supreme Su-preme Court. One District Judge for the unexpired un-expired two year term of former Judge, C. Nelson Day. One County Commissioner for a term of two years. One County Commissioner for a term of four years. All other County Officers. All precinct Justices of the Peace. All precinct Constables. One Cemetery Maintenance Commissioner from Sub-district No. 2 (Sutherland and Hinckley). One United States Senator. One United States Congressman. One County School Board member mem-ber from each of the School Representative Rep-resentative Precincts 1, 2 and 3. Published' pursuant to Section 20-3-13, Utah Code Annotated, 1953. Guy L. Robins Millard County Clerk Published in The Millard County Chronicle April 9, 1970. NOTICE OF VACANCY SUPERVISOR OF DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 1 Notice is hereby given that the regular term of office of Supervisor George Ekins of Millard County Drainage District No. 1, does expire ex-pire on the 30th day of April, 1970. That the Board of Millard County Commissioners will fill such vacancy va-cancy at , their regular meeting, Wednesday, May 6, 1970, at 2 p.m. That within that time the Commissioners Com-missioners will receive any petition from land owners within the district dis-trict requesting the appointment of any person or persons to fill -THUBSDAY. APRIL 9, 1970 Letters and unsolicited unsolicit-ed articles for publication publi-cation do not necessarily neces-sarily reflect the policy pol-icy or vie,vs of this newspaper. No letter should be longer than 300 worls. All letters must be signed. Name will be withheld only by specific request. advance Six Months $2.50 on Request MEMBER Association - Founded 1885 Probate and Guardianship Notices. No-tices. Consult Clerk of District Court, or respective signer for information. such vacancy. Dated the 1st day of April, A.D., 1970. Guy L. Robins Millard County Clerk Published in The Millard County Chronicle April 9 and 16, 1970. NOTICE OF VACANCY SUPERVISOR OF DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. TWO Notice is hereby given that the regular term of office of Supervisor Glen Crawford, of Millard County Drainage District No. Two, does expire ex-pire on the 30th day of April, 1970. That the Board of Millard County Commissioners will fill such vacancy vacan-cy at their regular meeting, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, ' May 6, 1970, at 2 p.m. That within that time the Commissioners Com-missioners will receive any petition peti-tion from land owners within the district requesting the appooint-ment appooint-ment of any person or persons to fill such vacancy. Dated the 1st day of April, A.D., 1970. Guy L. Robins Millard County Clerk Published in The Millard County Chronicle April 9 and 16, 1970. INVITATION TO BID The Board of Education of the Millard County School District will accept sealed bids for two (2X firty four (54) Passenger buses, until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May, 13, 1970 at the Millard School District Offices in Delta, Utah. A copy of specifications for buses can also be obtained from this office. The Board reserves the right to accept ac-cept or reject any bids. Robert L. Steele Clerk Published in The Millard County Chronicle April 9 and 16, 1970. USAIR FORCE THE AEROSPACE TEAM Cm foar tocal Air Fore Kmermfttr .-4 " ! :, . ' ' ....-.. i'Y- UNVEILING and DEDICATION of Gunnison Monument. Captain I tin W. Gunnison was given f-Ul military honors. Memorial Day May 20, 1927. Reading from left to right in the above picture ore the following: follow-ing: Arthur Strang, (Monument) Dudley Crafts in civilian clothes. Glen Stewart. The Boy Scout, Gunnison -by LA VELL JOHNSON (As quoted from Josiah F. Gibbs editor of the "BLADE") The story of the actual attack was told to Mr. Gibbs by Old Mareer, one of the surviving Indians. In-dians. Bryon Warner of Oasis also furnished some of the information. In October, 1953 a company of Missouri emigrants, enroute to California passed through Fillmore and camped on Meadow Creek. Anson V. Call, bishop of Fillmore told the emigrants some reds were also camped on the creek, but that they were friendly. The train had hardly gone into camp when Moshoquop the Pah vant war chief, his father, Mareer and several others of the band, arrived at the camp of the strangers strang-ers and offered to "swap" buckskins buck-skins for tobacco and other articles. The emigrants were suspicious of the bows and arrows carried by the Indians so they surrounded the reds and attempted to disarm them. The Indians resisted what they regarded as an unwarrented intrusion in-trusion on their rights. One of them "jabbed" an arrow into the breast of one of the emigrants which so enraged them that, whipping out their revolvers, they opened fire on the Indians. In the melee, the father of Moshoquop was shot in the side and he died the next day. Two other Indians were wounded, but all the white men escaped injury in-jury except the one who received the slight wound from the arrow thrust. A few days after this, Mosoquop and a band of twenty Indians left Buy From Our New Spring Stocks WESTERN BOOTS Prices on Cowboy Boots for Men Start at 16.99 a pair New Stocks Now On Display 'a frM hi aits? t$rw MT " JtTi f OElTOS f fiCrnriTmrnf - STORE First Class, is Clifton Boyack. Mrs. Charlotts Steele was president presi-dent of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. On th upper extreme right of the picture is Nels Black with his hands on his gun. On the left side of the monument monu-ment facing the camera is a man and young girl who are so far unidentified. Surely would be Massacre Meadow Creek with threats of revenge re-venge on the whites and a quarrel with Chief Kanosh and moved to the vicinity of the lakes near Des-eret Des-eret for the purpose, as Mareer said, of hunting ducks, and camped six miles west of the place where Gunnison and his party were afterward after-ward killed. Among them were many Indians whose names were familiar to the old residents of Millard County. During the year 1853, Captain mingled by the piercing war whoop Gunnison, with a small military of savages. Gunnison, who was escort under command of Captain washing down by the river sprang R. M. Morris, who had been ex- to his feet and pulling his six-ploring six-ploring for a railroad route through shooter opened fire on his assail-the assail-the Rocky Mountains went into ants, who dodged and ducked to Fillmore for suplies and was warn- escape. (Mareer said no Indians e bv Mr- Cal1 of ,the probable danger witn tne inmans. Being so near the Sevier Lake--the Dead Sea of Millard County-Gunnison re solved to exlore it and then to go on to Salt Lake City and establish winter quarters. He had always been friendly with the Indians and had no fear of them. When the party reached the up- per vicinity of the lakes, some of the men started shooting at the wild fowl which fairly swarmed in that vicinity. The firing was most unfortunate, as the reports of the firearms reached the ears if Sam and Toady, two of Mosoquop's band who were hunting ducks along the river and sloughs. On receiving the news of the white men, Moshoquop determined to avenge the death of his father. ! He called his warriors together and planned the attack. About midnight they began their line of March and before the faint-' est streak of dawn appeared, the JJ - f, grateful to some reader if he could tell the names of the unidentified. un-identified. On the right side of the monument monu-ment and in the foreground is the cedar post planted on the burial spot as the first monument by Andrew Jensen, Dr. John R. Parle, and David R. Allen of Salt Lake City on the 22nd day of August, 1888. doomed explorers were nearly surrounded sur-rounded by the wily savages, who occupied the east, north, and south sides of the camp, while the marsh cut off escape to the west. The sun had just arisen from behind be-hind the distant Canon range when "Pants", a brother of Moshoquop, stealthily rose from his place of concealment, near the eige of the swamp, a sharp report rang out on the crisp air and the cook fell dead beside the camp-fire. The signal sig-nal gun was followed by the rapid firing of nearly a dozen guns inter- were killed.) -me suiynse was uumpitfie, aim the dazed officers and men thought only of escape. Amid the shower of whirring arrows which followed the emptying of the guns, the men ran toward the open ground to the north and in the desperate race for life, threw aside their arms and divested themselves of coats --Glean fmrll Get a Flameiess Electric Range s Clean Favorite 3 to 1 f , UTAH POWER ;A CSf & LIGHT CO. l L and everything that might impede their flight. Two of the men escaped on horseback, a thrid one was thrown from his horse a short distance east of the camp, but he had the good sense to remain quiet for several hours while the reds were passing to and fro, sheltered only by the stunted greasewood. The fourth man who escaped plungod into the river, swam to the south bank, where, within the friendly shadow of the willows, he continued his flight to the camp of Captain Morris (near Holden) and told the story of the attack. While he was talking, the others who escaped came into camp. About 12 days later a burial party from Fillmore, consisting of six white men, Chief Kanosh and Narrient of the Pahvant tribe went to the scene 'of the massacre. Immediately after the arrival of the Fillmore party, Kanosh sent Narrietn down to the Sevier River in search of Moshoquop ana nis band, and gave orders to come in immediately if they could be found. In those days, not a member of the Pahvant tribe dared to disobey the chief, and as Mr. Call and his party were rounding up the top of the common grave, Moshoquop and his band came in sight across the swamp on their ponies. The remains of Captain Gunnison Gunni-son and William Potter were wrapped wrap-ped in blankets and taken to Fillmore Fill-more where the Captain was buried; those of Potter were sent to Manti for interment. The others were buried at the scene of the massacre. Years passed by. On the 22nd day of August, 1888, Andrew Jensen, Jen-sen, Dr. John S. Park and David E. Allen of Salt Lake, Bishop Joseph S. Black of Deseret and one or two small boys guided by the surviving witnesses (Indian) to the massacre located the site and set a sturdy cedar post over the common grave. Again Mr. Jensen returned to the massacre site in May of 1922, found the cedar post still there and piled heavy rocks against it to preserve it. 9 On Memorial Day, May 30, 1927 a monument was unveiled at 2:00 p.m. The marker consisted of a placque mounted on a huge lava rock with a short description of the massacre and the names of the men killed. American Legion Post 89, D.U.P. members and scouts were responsible for getting the monument there. Josiah F. Gibbs then a resident of Marysvale, was the chief speaker of the day telling the narrative in forceful, vivid language. lan-guage. Andrew Jensen, L.D.S. Historian, His-torian, gave an address. The monument monu-ment was dedicated by Leigh Cropper, Crop-per, Sr. Edwin Stott (91) sole survivor sur-vivor of the burrial party did the eclrlc No, this is not a soap ad. The fluffy suds and bubbles are to remind you just how clean electric cooking really is. First, an electric range is cleaner because it's flameiess. The heat conversion process pro-cess is pure as sunlight. Walls, curtains, utensils stay cleaner. See your electric dealer's new models now. Get a clean start in the 70's! Now .... Free $25.C0 If you purchase a new electric range with a self-cleaning andor electronic oven before May 15, 1970, you will receive re-ceive $25 cash from the power company, to help in the installation, provided the range is installed in a home or apartment apart-ment served by Utah Power & Light Company or The Western Colorado Power Pow-er Company. Garrison Hews BLANCHE RICHARDSON Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Dearden spent the first of the week in Salt Lake receiving medical attention. They returned Tuesday evening. Mrs. Arvilla Williams accompa- nc Mrs. LaRue Rowley to Salt Lake. They spent a couple of days in and near the area visiting and on business. Mr. Carl Dearden made a business busi-ness trip to Salt Lake on Tuesday. He returned the same day. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Osborne spent Easter with her son, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stoker and family of Cedar. Mrs. Daisy Gonder was in Delta, Tuesday to r ceive medical attention. atten-tion. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Young were Delta visitors on Tuesday. Helen was in to see the dentist. Wednesday, April 1, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Osborne went to Ely to see Glenn's mother, Clara Callico. Mrs. Aleeda Dearden was accom panied by Mollie Gonder on Thurs- day t0 ny Nev t0 attend the funeral services of Art Meecham. Mr. and Mrs. James Dearden returned re-turned to Garrison on Thursday April 2nd, after spending the winter win-ter in Yuma, Arizona. Mollie and Daisy Gonder went to Delta Friday to attend the tea held at the American Legion Post Home in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Johnson. Mollie and Daisy are related to the bridegroom. Late Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Henry Conk and son of Provo arrived in Garrison. They spent the night with Mollie Gonder Henry's sister. Friday morning they then went up to tour the Lehman Caves then on to Delta to do some visiting there. Mr. Wayne Gonder, president of the Mount Wheeler Power, Inc., and Clair Olsen, manager, returned Saturday evening from a four day trip to Washington, D.C. to meet with R.E.A officials concerning the power situation in this area. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Richardson were in Ely on Saturday. They visited with Mrs. Dee Heckethorn, Mr. and Mrs. Don Van Horn and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Loper. While visiting with the Loper family they learned that Rich's brother, Art, living in Bakersfield, Calif, isn't in very good health. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Jensen and daughter, Vickie went to Delta Saturday night so Vickie could attend at-tend the dance held Friday night, April 3rd, for the Delta School Junior Prom. unveiling. A talk Frank Beckwith. was given by |