| Show reminiscent REMARKS f farmington FAB utah august 18 1896 three years ago when elder eider an drew jensen was to lo farmington near near the beginning of bin present tour ol of gathering etc he be had bad a conversation conver tation with mrs ruth oviatt in regard to the time the farmington gunday school was waa first started this was catbe the second dunday school organized in the territory commenced and at first taught by herself and her husband ira oviatt who died in 1868 they came to utah io in 1851 wintered in Cent centerville erville moved to farmington in 16 the spring of 1852 and commenced the be sunday bunday school soon boon after they arrived here mother died at the age of nearly 85 years a few weeks weeke sitta after this conversation referred to again referring to indian matters mattere I 1 will name on an incident called to my by reading the list hat of utah exe cut cautions ions tor for murder as published in the memi weekly NEWS of the 11 tb loot I 1 refer to the two indiana indian hanged in 1869 1859 for the murder of the two week boys boya la in cedar valley in 1854 during boring the move south in 1858 my folka moud to A great deal of the country in that thai vicinity was waa open prairie on which childred chil dreu ol of nearly all ages agen would herd their stock boob I 1 was wai engaged la in that business when this incident occurred I 1 was kaaa a little over eleven years old just juat be fors fore noon one day in june or july we were vero a great deal surprised and still worse wone oared at se eings a lot jot of indians on horseback riding at full speed among our herds hercle of stock we boys were more willing they should capture the cattle than ourselves so we struck for payson all 61 or nearly all of us on foot we soon born meta met a number num berof of payson men armed and mounted inquiring for their boys boye they had bad seen been the ibe indiana indian and heard board them at jackrabbits jack rabbits as they were on a rabbit hunt bunt As ae your other correspondent writes people were easily excited in those daya and they of course frequent ly had occasion to be excited aou anu to be continually on the watch when general P E connor was returning from his bear river fight and dearly purchased victory over a norl northern bera tribe of indians I 1 think in 1868 1863 his bla troops and teamsters mostly sled led drivers the wounded soldiers were brought down in also I 1 think the dead mooned in farming top one of our citizen els a late arrival from asked where are the Inala indians naJ wagons VP being told the in juns did nut not have wagons he innocently innocent ly said then how do they haul baul their stuff about T B CLARK cl |
