Show CHIEF WALKERS METHODS arizona december ath 1896 to illustrate the despotic rule exercised by walker and his utah warriors I 1 here relate an incident which occurred in southern utah about one year before its settlement by the mormons cormons Mor mons A apauty patty of thirty emigrants with pack animals on their way to california b by y the southern route encamped at the iron springs one night and were all killed at daybreak next morning by a large party pah eeds who filled them with arrows just as they were waking from sleep not one escaped walker soon heard of this and went down to southern utah with all his warriors he called a council of the pa heeds and told them they did not know how to use the guns and so had no use tor for them said the knew how to use guns and needed them and it would be best for the pah eeds to give up to him all the guns revolvers and ammunition they had taken fhe pa heeds would gladly have kept the spoils they had captured capture di but knew they were too weak to argue the point having thus got possession of all the arms and ammunition walker said his men needed the horses mules packs all they had taken from the murdered emigrants and the pah eeds must give them up to him and this they had to do much as they inwardly raged at being thus compelled to resign all the fruits of their late warlike enterprise walker and his band made raids upon the living near the Col colorado oracio river killing men and women and taking g the children of proper age as captives to be sold to any one who would buy them quite a number of children were bought by the mormons cormons in order to save them from a horrid captivity and death forit for it was well understood that all captives that could not be sold were put to death with the most frightful tortures at one time a band ol of were camped near parowan carowan for some time and an indian went about the fort try ing to sell a little boy and a little girl each about nine or ten years old but he would take nothing less than a work ox or a cow for either of them and no one could afford to part with such prop erty more valuable then than gold gokl one day he be came around with only the little girl and the indians said he had killed the poor boy with horrible tortures because he could not sell him knowing this would be the fate of the girl too it not soon sold I 1 bought her giving in exchange a rifle worth we named her cora colorado removing afterwards to salt lake city a brother irom from davis county called one day at our house saw cora and desired to have her saying all his children were married and gone and his home was lonely now to him and his wite wife the they wanted a child in the house he tox took her and she grew to womanhood as refined and ladylike as any of the white 9 girls eirls around her one autumn walker and all his tribe camped near parowan carowan and turned all their horses about in number into the big field to graze about half the grain was uncut the rest reat standing in the shock and supposing the horses had got in accidentally word was sent to vv alker with a request to have them taken out he answered defiantly defiant Y say ing all the land belonged to the indians he e would put his horses where he wanted to he had put them in the field to get fat and they should not be taken out this was serious his men outnumbered the mormons cormons tour to one his bis men were all well armed ours very poorly numbers having neither neither arms nor am his men inured to war many of our men especially those irom europe had never fired a gun in their lives but it would not do to back down it we did this time we would have to again besides our grain was as ofir life the authorities so decided and sent word again to the chief to take his horses out of the field or men would be sent to do it he dared us to do so and said if we did he would kill every man woman and child in parowan carowan Pa rowan we could not yield and a party of about twenty well armed men went and drove out the horses despite the yells and threats of the indian horse guards the entire band began whooping and yelling like so many devils from and began their war dances which continued a all night their blood curdling yells being plainly heard in the fort but the settlers were not asleep and every preparation was made for the expected attack few houses bouses had bad doors or windows windlow s 0 opening pening on the outside of the fort but all such were barricaded barricades barrica ded with tables bedding baxes anything that would stop a bullet every man was under arms all night and a strong guard was posted the women calm and brave assisted all they could many ot of them making bullets lor for the men and so the night passed every sense strained to its utmost point of tension morning came at last and revealed scattered indians who seemed to be taking observations as scouts looking lor for a g good point for attack but soon the welcome sound was heard they are all going 4 ax away they are going to leave 12 mn and d so they did finding the people too well prepared for them they departed leaving word with our local indians that they would come back with more men and make a full end of the settlement but he never tried it again JAMBS H MARTINEAU |