| Show trip to manti EDITOR or OF THE NEWS sir 1 I left this city on the ath dinst in company ny with dr garland hurt indian agent for for utah to visit the indians in ill the southern soil them settlements there being great excitement among them in consequence of walkers death the indians at lehi wore were friendly and disposed to work those at springville Spring ville were cross and excited leady to accuse the mormons cormons Mor mons while they themselves live hy by begging and have burned up two miles of fence those at payson were friendly and anxious to farm in the sprigg tg wah woo ner the one who killed billed keel was dt at neph making heavy demands upon poll the inhabitants for cattle und flour but to no effect at fort ephraim there were a number of the pe coot coulch ch i 1 clies ches and e re ches from the uinta country they appeared friendly on eba arriving at we found araleen very friendly and quite humble he was anxious to be chief in hi walkers place he has had a remarkable vision about walkers death which he told us it appears that VI A alker while gambling with some pah van tes broke a blood ves vessel sol which caused his deith deatti ar a peen thi thinks aks the puh pah van tes made bad medicine for him walker had his senses until the last and requested his brothers to kill a pi ede woman who wh 0 was in a delicate condition to strangle with lassoes lassoer las two pi ede girls and bury alive a pi ede boy ten years old to kill sixty horses and six sheep twenty of the ran off while the others were being killed on oil our return to palmyra we visited petete pe tete neets neeta build biond and found them very friendly and lazy dr hurt took much pains haills to instruct and encourage the natives in doing right and manifested a lively interest in improving their condition at the next new moon all the neighboring tribes are to meet at nephi to elect a chief yours respectfully I 1 D B huntington I 1 interpreter G S L city feb 16 |
