Show the late indian difficulties the e rumor that there bad had been a collis collision iori lori between lieutenant gays gaya command and the indians in box elder kanyon to which reference was made last week was not altogether a hoax hoary as there was asdall fight came off about daylight on the morning of the near devils gate kanyon hanyon in box elder valley in which lieutenant gay had six men and nine horses wounded and the indians I 1 according to the most moat reliable report had one warrior badly supposed mortally and one squaw slightly wounded the troops also despoiled desp deep oiled the indiana indians of several ponies the battlo batti is said to have been ot of short abort duration both parties claim the tho victory but from the contradictory reports it is somewhat difficult to determine which quit the field first though it ia is evident that if the indians fled in the first instance they were not followed as theLle tenant returned to with his command at 7 in the morning and the indian indians who numbered some 17 warriors remained in the valley some time afterwards robbed the house of mr dir hunsaker who had a herd of cattle cattie and horses there of property to to the amount of nearly 1000 and then taking with them forty or fifty beeves left for tile the mountains the soldiers after the battle was over came across a tame indian boy living with mr driving t up a band of horses borses and shot him inflicting a mortal wound of which he died in about six honra hours As a matter of safety or convenience when the company returned from the battle they encamped in the big field belonging be longin to the people of brigham brigha in city till monday roon noon when seemingly having a disrelish for i gay marched bis his company by the fhe plain to the ford on bear river where the head quarters of he the troops sent a against the indians will be established lieutenant gordons company of dragoons which passed through this city on ehe the e rived arrived at brigham city on the morning mornin of the since then two companies of infantry have haye proceeded northward to join the forces that have been ordered against the Shosho nees and Bann acks who have been making hostile demonstrations in that the result of the war can be better told after alter the close of the campaign than before but in all probability the fighting is over if as is reported the officers have laye come to the conclusion that the gods of the indians are gods of the hills bills and therefore they will in future fight 0 against them in the plains there will be no use in surgeons accompanying the expedition as all know who have bad any expert 1 ence in indian warfare w in this territory t NEW DAGUERRE DAGUE rrean BREAN Ax ROOMS last week we visited the gallery of sturgess and taylor their stock of cases ac is superb and so far as we are able to juige julge their pictures are generally of a superior cl class ass asb the they y are enterprising 0 and reliable young men and we advise those who want to immortalize their physiognomies to give them a call see their advertisement advertisements page in this number |