Show HOME ROME indence f P sy 1 I 1 ial fal va 1 G S L C CITY T TU tuesday st june jun jiu plu 1855 55 EDITOR OF THE news I 1 lefel left ggs S cir cl on tuesday last ats a m li by the mal mai efel Iny company 1 any with elder dimick B mas aal n huntington ington ng to nr n r li gad t interpreter who was sent rent by the superintendent of andian indian affairs to settle a difficulty between the and the inhabitants ot of provo city at the hot springs we broke a wheel perhaps the proprietor of dalays line may consider rider elder huntington and myself rather heavy luggage gaj being absi lbs ibs mr B B D brackenbury a passenger passengers walked about half a mile and procure procured 4 a pole W booth I 1 the ie driver dragged the coach to mr polls Pow row 11 where reh reb he obtained a wagon and we pursued our fourney journey at t a very slow pace as our draught animals were wego a pair of spanish yules and about the laziest on record I 1 I 1 at lehi lehl the driver abandoned the animals and too took it on foot as he was quite worn guto driving them the mules were then driven drian by mr brackenbury who bad served an apprenticeship dir dio driving lying mules for or V up S in the mexican war while in the mormon battalion he succeeded in a beating the animals to lake city where we i dl ed a change ur dr thomas hitching his horses and taking us and the mail mall to provo where we arrived about 11 1130 1 0 p m I 1 I 1 on friday mr huntington and major majon G IT IV arm strong the indian subagent sub abent agent visited the indians who were camped i in athe the old fort field there were 40 lodges of them and they had thrown down the fence turned their own horses and the cattle cattie of the inhabitants into the wheat this was the more aggravating as that was wes the only nield field where the grasshoppers had bad not made a successful conquest and there were several hundred acres of grain the Irid indians ians lans had been requiring the people to throw open the old fort field and also acres of grass land adjoining for their horses to feed and had prohibited the people from fishing in the provo river elder huntington succeeded in la pacifying the indians and getting them to move out ot of the flefil by the agent engaging to fence in til a pasture on the lower part of the fort alrid and to open a road on the banks of the provo from the city to said pasture by the tune the indians want to come again to fish the al leaders of the disaffected were Tin gintick tick squash and an ton guer and those who were first disposed for peace were tabba tauba San pitch and mr armstrong gave them a horse horsey and a yearling steer to pay for sor a mare amare and they charge to the whites as having killed although there were Is no evidence to that ef feet sect Is it believed abah the whites have interfered with those animals was tool dge niah WWI very mad at first fl but ai after a long conversation he be became more quiet mr sir flun liun hington inquired what he wis was wal mad aboul abou he replied he was mad because he had bad been told that brigham had ordered tabba to 6 come ank ana and arrest him he was told that it if be he did not stop committing depredations upon the whites he would be arrested and it if he was mad at that he might tay iday so the interpreter requested one of the indians to fill the pipe of peace and pass it round when gintick burst out into a loud laugh and said sald al seo sea I 1 cannot scare you and beahen came into the lodge appeared friendly and willingly agreed to the resolution of the others i major armstrong called the Citizen citizens sot of provo together and he and mr huntington addressed them i explaining the tha provision of the reconciliation the indians the people unanimously voted to sustain major armstrong in carrying out these proceedings after which I 1 addressed the brethren on the necessity of preserving peace with the descendants of lehir lehi lehl and continuing measures to do them good the indians having requested the brethren to fish for them elder Hunti huntington niton accompanied A P winsor and a fishing company to the mouth of the provo on satu saturday 1 when they caught a large amount of ash which was divided among the indians at one haul they caught a thou and sucker suckers sl any one of which would make a white mat man a good meal and the indians loaded up four horses with them giving their share of the trout to mr huntington for me i on sunday morning elder atou and myself went with Elish ausha jones aTones to springville Spring vilie ville and preached in the new bowery which was built by the citizens to hold meetings in n through the summer summers it Is a very pleasant and agreeable shade from the sun I 1 addressed them on the subject of the fulfillment fulfilment of many of joseph smiths prophecies I 1 then returned to provo and at 4 k addressed a meeting of the official members who filed filled the hall ball on the necessity of a united effort to build up that L stake ot of zion timy subscribed enough to build a bowery f for 0 r sum summer bummer use on monday I 1 returned to this city being carried by br dr erastus D mecham the grasshoppers continue to ma e considerable ravages among the crops in the county the farmers continua continue plowing and sowing the ground which had been stripped of vegetation the second time the weather has been excessively hot and the crops are generally suffering for want of water redfield esq proprietor of the provo hotel hotell was thrown from his horse on the 4 dinst and his bis leg was broan b by his horse treading upon him about half way between the knee and ankle joint the bones have been set pet by dr john riggs and he appears to be recovering this circumstance threw an unusual gloom over the tha family and nei nel neighborhood in consequence of mr Red nelds only son having lost his life by a similar accident nearly a year ago the sage and greasewood crease grease wood bushes this side lehi lehl were biadas blacas with locusts the course pu pil aed by major armstrong with the indians iq I 1 bi highly ehly sat sai isi ibi antory to the people of provo and the citizens of utah county generally I 1 GEO A |