Show SECLUDED INDIANS an interesting story about an important DUe discovery overy the following has appeared in t the he tribune of this city and purports to be a correspondence to that ps paper er from byron smith dated at valley valley ranch range valley march there are several places in this region named range valley but it appears that the one in point Is ia located in idaho the story to is so quaintly rudely crudely and yet interestingly told abc that at we have been tempted to reproduce it without however being able to vouch for its correctness not nonbeing being acquaint ed with the writer s there are a good many stori es being told about that skirmish I 1 had with some borne Indian sand as I 1 think my friends would like to know I 1 will tall them the straight of it A great many salt lake folks have been in range valley and have noticed the many stone houses up in the cliffs and also the strange pictures on the rucks rocks called hieroglyphics they will also remember that big cation canon that comes into range valley lust above the ladore farm that is 1 named michels wash this to is 1 a very rocky cation canon and has never bets beta much prospected one sunday I 1 was up in ilk tali his canon hunting it was just before snow fell I 1 seared scared up a of deer and they took up the cation canon they could not go an any y other way ay tor for toe the ledges were very high I 1 followed them up and shot at them a few times there was a big jump amp off on ahead and I 1 thought I 1 had them corralee corr aled there but before we got there I 1 ran against a band of mountain sheep my horse was given out when I 1 got to the jump off it was a big ledge about seventy five feet high and water was trickling over it I 1 saw that my game was getting away by climbing up a rocky place at the side eide I 1 shot and hit one sheep but he west went on over but of sight I 1 lef lett t my horse and climbed up on foot I 1 followed folio wed the tracks about a mile and there was blood on the tracks pretty soon the canon widened out and there were grass and trees and brush there was a little stream of water I 1 now lost the trill trail but bui went on to see what was waa ahead I 1 saw on a hill a bunch of animate animals black ad white and smaller than deer I 1 was very much surprised I 1 sneaked up on theland them and shot one then I 1 saw they t he were goats they did not run and an lell I 1 went up to them they were pretty tame but kept a little ways away from me one ot of them had a big string tied around his bis neck iwas I 1 was scared but wanted to know who was in there with goats toe ane sun was down and it was soon dark I 1 got in a corner behind some rocks and camped made a little tire fire and roasted a little goat meat I 1 was afraid to make much fire though it was waa very cold I 1 was glad to see morning come I 1 had bad made up in my mind to go on en and see it anyone elivea lived in there As soon as I 1 could see I 1 started on up the cation canon there was a plain trail I 1 came around a point and saw a little corn field the corn had been pulled and there were a few goats in it ft it was about two acres I 1 guess there was a 1 brush fence across the cation canon below the corn it was a narrow place I 1 stood behind a big bg sarvis berry bush and saw a boy come around to the field he had bad on a red and aad yellow shirt and moccasins he hollered something and all the goats run ran up to him he gave some of them something to eat out of a pocket in his bis shirt shir and tand they crowded around him and followed him away pretty soon I 1 went OR OB for about a mile it was a sort of valley there ther ewas was a small canal along next therill the hill and water in it there were three little farms or gardens but I 1 did not net notice what had been raised except corn and squash vines I 1 kept looking for horses and aad men but I 1 saw none I 1 went very slowly and dodged from rock to rock or kept behind brush there was a deep wash in the middle of the flat I 1 got down in it I 1 could not see out unless I 1 climbed up a little way on the ban bank k T there here was a small stream of water in the wash As I 1 came round a bend I 1 saw a squaw dipping water ioto a basket her back was toward me I 1 stepped back behind a bush and she did not see me I 1 stood still tor for some time then heard some talking u up talking on the flat fiat I 1 worked into a t abick A bunch of buil berry brush brash and got on a rock so I 1 could see without being seen two squaws squads were grind grinding log corn on a flat rock they were not very far from me they had bad soft fine hair and a light complexion for indians indians their figures were small and they were delicately made the goats were in a little corral up against the rocks A boy was moving around among them and I 1 thought milking them he came out of the corral and went up A ladder that leaned against the ledge then following along a shelf a little way he climbed another ladder and was on OB a ledge about ten feet broad it was eighty feet above the flat I 1 think in it were two houses bouses they were exactly like what I 1 had bad seen in range valley an old man sat on the root of one house I 1 think he was the oldest nan inan I 1 ever aa saw ir his hair was white and fell to his bis waist his bis face was shriveled he was very small email and bent A younger man oame came and stood by him his hair was partly eartly gray but he stood straight he e had not the features of a ute he was short but heavy set I 1 dont think that he was more thin than four and a half feet tall the boy came and stood with the men they seemed to be watching for something just juat then the sun situ rose over the opposite cliff and shone upon them they stretched out their arms toward it the old man cried out something the younger man and the koy boy repeated it then the old man said something else it sounded like a song then the man and boy went away the squaws squads paid no attention to this ceremony I 1 suppose it had something to do with their religion I 1 got down into the wash and went up about yards then I 1 saw the end of the cation it was walled in by cliffs very high there were no more houses bouses or indians besides the ones I 1 had seen it was a pretty place the grass aras was green and there were thes trees with red leaves they were maple and box elder I 1 came back and got on the rock again the boy had bad taken the goats away the old man sat on OB the house the squaws squads were cooking some corn cakes on a little lire fire near the front of the cl cliff ft the younger man stood near the tire fire he was smoothing an arrow with a piece of stone I 1 was very hungry 5 I 1 thought t they hey would be friendly indians indiana and won I 1 d give me something to eat I 1 watte waited d awhile ter for I 1 was kind ol 01 0 scared t then hen I 1 walked up the path the squads squaws awe made co coming min to water and showed myself I 1 called called out and said kike they lumped jumped end and the squads squaws got around behind the men ud and started up the ladder they said something I 1 could not understand then I 1 said heap hungry me and added some words of ute me iguest I 1 guess the old feller did not savey my kind of indian talk for he said something ething that I 1 could not understand and ad went up the ladder alter after tie squaws squads like a cat when he got up tile the led ledge e he pulled the ladder up after him f I 1 tried him alaia again and hollowed bol hol lored all the indian talk I 1 ikney new at him as he went up the second ladder which he pulled palled up behind him again then I 1 picked up a corn eake and took a bite it tasted good and I 1 started to tell the old man what I 1 had told the younger one the squaws squads helped the old feller down through the roof pretty quick and the other man threw a rock at me I 1 dodged it and ran back out of the way and pulled my gun on him he jumped on the roof and down in the house daere were no windows in the house but there must mast have been peepholes peep holes for he shot an arrow at me it went close to me but it was too far off would not shoot at the house bouse for it bad stone walls and it seemed wrong to kill any of them he shot at me again and sud the arrow went through my shirt I 1 ran then and got in the wash and ran down it I 1 hurried clown the valley but did not run ran far I 1 did sot not see the boy but the goats were in the cornfield it was about noon when I 1 reached my horse he was not far from where I 1 left him I 1 think from where I 1 left him to the cliff where the indians indiana were was about five miles away and from the barch about twenty five or thirty miles there may be more than the five indians in there but I 1 dont think so they are not utes I 1 know I 1 did not see any trail in the cation canoa I 1 think it must be a family that escaped from the valley during some indian war long ago when the others were 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