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Show II Ibtion Said the Leader: Indians Scattered Jk& (ratnAt 1 1'W from his crops, Sagwitch, from whose mind Rill had 'tried to erase bloody memories of 1 .the frightful Battle Creek massacre near Preston in 1865. Next day, with Hills reluctant agreement, the Indians had gone, he reported, and "a man styling himself States Marshal, with three or four others from Corinne, rode into the Indian camp and stole everything to which they took fancy. One of the first attempts to help Western 'Indians live by American economics was finished. But the crops the Indians had planted werent fnshed by the solders, and this, of course, is Moroni where an Mortensen entered the story. Replying to a friends letter recently as to "whether I Remember if any Indians did at any time plant or raise any grains on land in the Old Field, he wrote: Along with other boys from Bear River City I was asked to help cut and shuck the com on a field the Indians were compelled to abandon. I do not remember what other crops they I had in that vicinity, but remember the corn for one reason in particular; After a few days of work of that kind I had very sore and blistered hands. No doubt the other boys were they now still living, could say the same. If the Indians had not been driven away from their crops, perhaps the sore hands would have been those of Amman Pub-igeAmmon, now 84, is one of four living Indians who were there. As it is, he remembers: I was about 10 year old. I belong to Bhosshone tribe from Wind River in Wyoming. I was baptized by George W. Hil'l we call him 'Pornbi in Bea,r River at Horseshoe Bend between Bear River City and Elwood. It was year 1875. Indians there from Bannocks Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada. Soldiers came, so Indians go back to their own country. The others in Washakie who remember it also remember Enga baptizing them. They are a man, Purdasha, and two women, Kippe and Rachel. Ammon, by Missionary Hill from the Book of Mormon, is a spare, wiry old neither cut nor garnered. The eyewitness who wrote this Mr. Hill wasnt there just' by chance when-thsoldiers came. He was George W. Hill, the Mormon ambassador to mountain Indians. For twenty years he had moved among Shoshones, food, e At Threat Of U. S. Army Continued from preceding page) We deny the whole indictment against ttie Mormons, and we have no doubt that the Indians are as innocent of 'hostile intent towards the ipeople of Corinne, or any other white people, as though they were un'born. . . , That the army should have been cajoled Into giving countenance to the scheme is to be regretted, but we do not 'believe there is an officer at Camp Douglas with a thimble full of 'brains who believes that there was the least foundation for the organized scare at Corinne. The Heralds . editorial was right about the Indians, but it was wrong about the officers who led the operation, allowing they had the requisite thimble full of brains apiece. Their action is best accounted in this Deseret News story of Sept. 1, - rescue-Corinn- e eye-witne- 1875: . The major (Brant) delivered his message which was to the effect that all the Indians must leave the farm and go to their reservations 'before noon the next day, or he would he compelled to drive them there- from by force. 1 fold the major, writes iHil'l, that all the Indians who belonged to reservations had already gone; and that the Indians who were on the ' farm now were resident Indians, had no reservation to go to, as they never belonged to any. Nevertheless, the orders had to be obeyed. This was about three oclock In the afternoon, says afterMr. Hill. Immediately wards I called the Indians together, told them that it would .all come out right and. advised them to return to their former . haunts. By sunset . not an Indian could be found in the camp all had scattered out to wander from place to place as in former years, leaving their crops for which they had ' toiled 60 industriously, and on- - which they depended for their winter Bannocks, Nez Perce, Piute, Navajo speaking their languages, telling them the Book of Mormon story,- convincing them these white men meant peace and plenty. He was Enga Pom-bl- , which is Shoshone for Red Head. A few in Washakie still speak of him by that name, though hes been dead 60 years. Hill must have been bitterly sorry when he wrote his account for the Salt Lake paper that fall, for he looked across one hundred acres of wheat, twenty-fivof corn, five and a half to six acres of potatoes, three to four acres of melons, peas, beets and other vegetables, and reported that the Indians were in the fields with two reapers and had commenced harvesting when the first news of trouble reached us. This band of 300 alt baptized by Hill ten days befbre the soldiers came was the climatic accomplishment of mission. He had his not only made 'here his biggest lot of converts to his religion but he had guided this group into something like the productive (Mormon town pattern of those years. Hill had settled his Indians near Bear River City that spring e just ... two-decad- e because the Scandinavian Mormons here were willing to share their newly-duirrigation system with their ILamanite brethren, as the Book of Mormon called Indians. He had adapted the Shoshone tribal government to the purpose of a cooperative farm, and that summer he had proudly watched ihis children, as he called them in his diary, join the whites in commemorating Brigham Youngs arrival in g . Utah. - Now he could only record that Chief Sagwitch one of the great Chief Washakies lieutenants haf stepped forward and demanded eloquently to know what he had stolen, whom he had killed, what, meanness he had committed, that the soldiers should come to drive him away vm man, with the look of a jbrave about him still.' Lean and alert, he closely resembles pictures of Shoshone Chief Washakie, after Inwhom the Bear River Valley Hill the village named dians and others finally got them settled in. A new leader, Loweil Cutler, has been called to Washakie recently to help the Indians get the most from their land and their religion. Hes the sixth, Mormon os most any towIM I comfortably historic-plac- e marker fV head from highway Corinne, once a city of jL Bear River City bare members that it was the ft Mormon town to ally with 'I1 Indians. It was a long time the year somebody officially? ticed there werent any buffi left on the plains, in fact bcM ozes ... THINGS TO SEE IN BOX ELDER . . . 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