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Show Millard County Progress Fillmore, Utah 84831 Friday, January 7, 1072 to wait until death finally silences her anguished moans. Then Indeed Chief Kanosh became a sad Indian. No PaNo wives! After a pooses. while Brigham Young visited Kanosh, on his way toSt. George and told him to come along to the warm sunshine of that area and hts "aching heart" would heal. Kimball (Abraham), George, and others In Kanosh wno ' mony, sing. I ' i ' were his friend encouraged J U' ol STORY OF CHIEF faints and r' KANOSH CHIEF KANOSH Written by Dean C. Robison Daughter of East M tllardD.l'.P. Emily Ray Camp, Fillmore, I't. ht Groe-sapen- "C-noa- ." together with others and built the one room cabin that Sally wanted and Kanosh went back and claimed his wife with triumph. Sally was given dishes, quilts, blankets, curtains, and cooking utensils. Maud C. Mel"When Sally and ville said, Chief Kanosh got as far as Fillmore the people assembled In the State House and quite a crowd had come to see the new bride of the Chief as they rode regally Into town. She was good looking lady, neatly dressed In a costly black silk dress a wedding present from the Young's, with a gold band on her finger and a matching set of Belt Buckle and gold brooch. She was a good cook and kept house very clean." Mrs. Melville also told 'is this story: "When the first "L'tah Southern" train came to the terminal called "York", Chief Kanosh was there to see It. He raced hts horse ahead of the puffing engine for quite a distance yelling at the top of his voice, "Come on! Come on!" The name of Kanoshs horse was "Tump." Culbert Fr'eman raised this horse and Roy McBride helped train it to be a racer. Chief Kanosh rode the horse to California several times. He was very fond of it and would bet heavily on It if he could get a horse (o run against It In a race. Several good friends of Chief Kanosh have been mentioned tn this article. Also, that Kanosh was able to preach rather a good sermon In the English Next to Brigham language. Young, who died In 1877, Kanosh admired and loved ThomasCal-llste- r, I Have past that he was sick. been anxious to see him often-e- r than 1 have. I liad hoped that he would get well again and would not die. Now 1 see him dead. You all behold him, Like the young and the old. President Young, Kimball, and George A., and the others he has gone, and left us here. They are all gone. The balance of my nation and myself counsel and ask the question, what will become If us1 The great men who have been our best friends have gone to the spirit world and left us behind. From them e received words of counsel, and comfort. They have supplied our wants, food and cloth- -' Ing, and have never turned us We ask, "To away destitute. whom shall we turn for comfort and protection?" Like these our white friends, those of my nation are passing away. Among the many good and leading ones of my people How I am the only one left. long I will remain I cannot tell. I feel very lonesome and lonely at this time, and my heart aches within me, and my spirit mourns and weeps. While I live I shall try to do all the good 1 can. I shall live to cherish In the memory all the cousel and advise of those who have gone to the Although our spirit world. bodies are laid In the lonesome grave, I bellve our spirits vet live; that they go to the Great Father where all Is peace and no sorrow. I believe that our mourning days will pass; that In time we will return and receive our bodies which we left, and that they will rise up and live again; that we will meet all our friends and Kindred, and never be parted by death. It will then be a time of rejoicing for all nations and people who have Amen. done right on earth. We are Indebted to Rueben McBride for writing the talk as It was given by Kanosh and It has come down to posterity to Indicate how Kanosh absorbed the teachings of hts many Mormonees friends. He was a man of rare character and strength In his carrying out of Justice, and many stories are told of his quick Interference In behalf of the pioneers when mauuadlng bands of Indians would have attacked the settlers or stolen thlr llvesotck. He and Sally moved down to the town that had been named In his honor as the years rolled on. They lived In a house about a half-bloeast of main street and a little distance from the (Concluded on Classlfed Pahvants. The Pahvant country was properly defined as Mri B)rd hM ,a 6j; panting at that area west of the Wastach wp; ihowln(r hlm Range from the great bend of the h wor i. th(U Sevier River (a little north of lbo ul of cloth lTen hlm by Thom Sclplo, nah) south lo the Vlr- - Prtrlt WM River ( In Washington Canister; the hickory shirt and the gin handkorchtof were given hlna by county). Chief Brigham. There will bLamanite daughters served the Mrs. Melville said that Kan- Wm. George of Peierebnrg. osh and hts brothers were part peace. We both kept the peace food to Chief Kanosh. Her name of brothers in Israel. I kill was Sally and as Kanosh as his father mother's Spanish, who breaks treaty.served was an exile from Spatn who wife was sad, too. And broodfirst her, new hope came Into ed over the lack of children had married an Indian woman. his heart and he began todream In defeat Walker was still his until she lost mind. Chlel her Kanoshs father had brought He would of having a wife. imperious and dignified, over to Kanosh kept her at his wickiup this "half-breeoffer Brigham mny blankets squaw for the of with hands the point shaking tied to a lodge pole once when and horses tor such a squaw price of many horses, from a the men he had wanted to drive he went to village Fillmore to band of n.raudlng Shoshonls, as Sally. However when he from his land. to and when talk Brigham Young who had stolen her from her to to her she retired had ended on tried talk The talks he returned to his village she jace home In California. Her skin such a high note of lov'ng kindhastily back to the kitchen, had Into the "She hills. gone was golden brown, her eyes ness and gift giving, that both leaving him alone to finish his dark pools of limpid light, but Is possessed with evil silrlts." meal. Kanosh and Walker were Chief she was not accustomed to the said one medicine man. They Her story had been pathetic. prevailed upon to Join Governor found until searched they her, She had been stolen from one rigorous winters of I'tah and Youngs official party on its tour but she was Incoherent and to Parowan, or Little Salt Lake, of the southern tribes by a reluctantly Kanoshs father took her back to California where he moaning tn agony. Chief Kanosh as It was called. The brother band of Blackfoot Indians, who to called braves his Council, visited her as often as hecould. had gone on an avenging skirqhleftalns must have felt very with Medicine the they agreed When she received word of her mish to retaliate for two of to ride lna Important carriage man that she was possessed by husbands untimely death she with Brigham Young. They their tribe who had been kilsome evil decreed and power made the long Journey northled by the Shoshonl Indans. In every settlethat she should die. The form were received ward so her sons could claim ment had not been able to kill with cherry banners, and They of death was that she should their heritage, even though she so they had setKanosh Shoshonls hand any shaking. spoke be tied to a wild horse and knew her life would be shortentled on kidnapping two little well enough to speak a English to death. dragged ed and she would suffer confair sermon. Because of his girls. They were camped near It was a sad chief who where a boy, Charles Decker, stantly fron the "sickness of went to attend young Spalnlsh blood his skin was very a at the lungs. Some sources Inwas heardlng cows. and the white settlers Lured light Plne-nSan his brothers Petes dicate her name was Tjlela, a was closer that to he such the heard their by camp good Festival on Ihe cast side of Indian that he was a sort of screams of thechlldrenCharles that she had a knowledge of the the mountains. Be rode his fine A worthy was horrified at what he saw. Christian Gospel and that she black stallion and was soon spiritual miracle. The children were being hacked who would become a lamanlte and her sons all spoke fluem In the dancing, gambcaught up the Indians knives, then and "White "Chief by delightsome. Spanish. Since the lnulan woling, and even fighting that went of Fillmore. When BisWalker was looked upon with burning sticks were trust Into -man was regarded as a nere on as the mom gained died tn 1880, Chief the wounds on the flesy parts Calllster he had held the Morm ons as hop awe, of entum. After three days the piece proj'erty timd svry Kanosh spoke at his funeral. of their naked bodies. two years. In for terror nearly final event was the wedding or little Information concerning The sermon Is as follows: He preferred the look of fear Anger made Charles brave. mating dance. Kanosh had had what hapiened to Tuleta. Per1 He didnt dare interfear, but Dear Brothers In Israel; to of the relief glance gentler on a pretty young behold before me a very much he offered to buy the victims. haps she died young of the his eyes were and bestowed that upon Joy quaw named Betsykln. He was beloved friend, BlshopCalUster. The Indians shouted In great "lung sickness! t hwu Id Kanosh. made happy when she claimed have been better than the usual What you five! Charles I have known for some time glee. him In the dance and he again We have seen some of the custom of the l ies which had only his rifle and hated became a married man. responses Chief Kanosh made to to part with It but as the to take their old people to some Hormel Range Bacon thick sliced 2 . . 51.43 In he a Back Pahvant that events strong Valley required lonely place to let them die dlans continued their atrocities 389C of starvation. Religion was began learning the things the Western Shores Towels Jumbo white man could teach him. simple to the 1tes. They did her screaming and died before Bath 4 Western Shores Culbert King taught him to write not believe tn life afterdath punishing one of his men who had his eyes, he gave them hts gun hts name and W 1111a m and Mary stolen a horse, be had shown and a Great Spirit God they for the remaining child. Such 2 pack George helped him to learn to Anson Call that he had control a dirty, pitiful mite of humanity called "Towats," but because made Be him who had called over Indians the Western Family Peanut Butter 40 oz . . 1.29 speak Engltsh. Tulvta was Christian, Kanosh was hardly worth carrying several trips to the "Vlrtfin thelrChlef. Another story tells and his bribers, had some home. Charles lived with his Western Family Orange Juice of sn Incident when he came Fork area to try to persuade knowledge of Jesus Christ. sister, Clara Decker Young, his and ssked to Walk1B48 Fillmore H was the summer Blshup quarrelsome brother. one of Brigham Youngs wives. Rhodes Frozen Bread 83C Calllster for feed for his To her he took the before the Council Sowlette hnl er, to seek peace with the setbarely 10C horses. It had been a severe living child. Clara bathed the Ballard Biscuits Sweetmllk tlers, but Walker would listen to desired with the Plooeerscarre winter snd he told the Bishop to pass. Sowlette had talked no one. He felt that the white child, named her Sally, and Blade Cut Pot Roast 63C that If he didnt get hay he with some of the leaders of man had crowed the I'tes from nursed her with tender lovtng when to able be He wouldnt saw more their homeland. plow twit Chief 69C Mormonees the "Big care. She grew up to be loving Center Cut Pot Roast and more settlers taking the the ground thawed. Bishop and helpful, and capable of Brigham had returned to the 69C Thomas Calllster tried to mee Chuck Steak streams, and grass land where east to get other Saints an Jd a doing many of the handicrafts once roamed his had the two friends common to the horses and demands his 69C family. When Brigham Young pioneer women. Western Family Sliced Bologna and her went lo the "Sink farm for She had filled with met with the fte Chiefs he freely been shy of always hate. He had a band of braves 5 Indians and looked f,!f.yw!.0.,k.e.!?-!Lntold them they were brothers upon them as Genoa Brand . . . 8 oz. . . . village. All the way a menace to her, and her new of Ihe same Fathers, of the Tribe to the snd to was Kanosh Chief determined Jumped of Isroal, and that they should weapons, way of life. Pizza Sausage.CheesePepperonl. 65C the Mormonees from the ground and opened the gates, all be friends. He sild they drive Sally had sensed something and he land to be own. called his The very polite seeming more that friendliness In the WeStem would help the Indians and teach Family AppleSaUCe gracious. When the wagon was glances of Chief Kanosh. She ' 00 them how to use the Jind to building onof forts and putting he the fences with once loaded that however, hay land, 32 wife watched from the kitchen and . 57C Strawberry su; ply food. Kanosh, his was open to all mankind, were said: "I open gates going down. when she was sure he was 10C Julia, and many d his band Tide off Detergent turn. Now the Whiteman's most offensive your . who had come to the "peace through with his meal she went . , . Betsykln, although pretty and shyly to his side to remove at Salt Lake accepted practices to Walker, and his Smoke Nectar 46 OZ 39C ApNCOt a good wife to Kanosh, also band young warthe preferred friendship and Luck Kanosh to unable was Green any Beans 303 riors. give . . went home, after inviting BrigSo Kanosh felt he his The year of 1853 was filled papooses. took in the sii.n figure, Western Shores Spray Starch 22 oz. ham Young to visit him In the eyes 49C with bloodshed, thieving, and should do something about It. the clean clothing. nd the neat- Pahvant Valley. Pine-n- ut constant the annual to of another the At threats settlers. wound hair. He hurried lo Amer,Can Beauty Wd(J Cgg NOOd still making his Cattle were walker stolen from Sclplo, Festival? this one held at ly Young to make his ofBrigham frequent raids tn California on 33C Koosharem In the valley Just fer of horses and blankets for the rancheros herds of horses. Fillmore, and the adjourning counties and settlements eastbefore the trail climbed to Hunt's Tomato 15 Sauce He usually brought them through oz he found a young Sallys purchase. at him kindUntil finally Brigham Fishlake, Pahvant Valley. Just west pf ward. Brigham looked Hunts Ketchup . . . 26 oz name of Mary the sent mentoWalkertoask by Young squaw 39c Kanosh's village there was a ly. "My brother, white men a treaty, warning him that home and her for brought Voreas, not do women. If and on sell their Hunts rounded 12 apparSkillet top, Dinners hill, oz 75C He was the Morm ons wanted peace but to be his plural wife. you can win Sallys consent ently Just a formation of rock out the militia to not a stranger to pologamy, as to be your wife I will let her and sagebrush. There was a woulJ send had had he If father him many wives, didn't make som? hts fight go, perform the marriage cere- spring of hot water near the kind of and he also knew that the Mortalk. Chief Kanhill, but what most observers osh had peace monees looked with favor upon begged walker to remdidnt know, the hill was nc4 of Sowlette. the words ember marriage. plural e A amphl-theatrsolid. huge From the start Betsykln was came to view when you reach- "that there was room for b'4h terribly Jealous of Mary, and fTrWmcsls Range Brand TSiced It was Indians and Mormons In I'tah, ed the hills summit. all she could to make the Sis but Walker wouldnt listen. a a 39 of crater long probably younger squaw miserable. Then extinct vc'.cano. The bottom He put on the war paint of his after a few months she sudtribe and would fight until he was quite flat I ha cold water was denly changed her attitude and beaten. besprtng and grass growing Toward spring In 1834 Walker began to t kind to her. This tween the sheer rock walls. A and he felt that and told pleased Kanc-strail, natural or made by the accepted the Inevitable was well at his w Icklups, and all would meet he Young Brigham to Indians, permitted Walker told the William George family drive as many as a hundred him at Chicken Creek In Juab .00 STICKS 4 pkgs. he might soon have papooses. head of horses Into Ihe "Rock County In M ay. Brigham Young ever became Whether Mary Ms of came with several Corral" and keep them hidden A pregnant Is not known. Betsykln pasties on the day assigned for as long as the grass lastInvited her to go squirrel huntbut was met by a sulky and un3 2 or ed, perhaps dcs, 16oz. Susage Cheese Peppcroni About hostile Walker. ing with her one day. When eighty til whoeverwaspurslnghlmhad W -- ALL MEAT of sight of the out two were LB. the and were set after up lektups Kanosh nevei lost his trail. village Betsykln Indicated a hole but a brief talk with Walker who approved of horse-stealin- g, and went, supposedly, to get a a had he excuse the that made he never told the pursuers water to pour Into It to of was the Jug real meeting where the horses were hidden, sick son, drown the squirrel out. Mary 23. Brigham set for did May walkas either; thinking, Voreas crouched over the hole went on T 2nder Chuck er, that the horses, once they Yoving and his parly to grab the rodent when It came were wit of the owner's ter- to Fillmore and when they reInstead but of Betsykln out, Chief Kanritory belonged to wh.wver had turned they broughtand several Folgers Reg. or drip Can pouring the water grabbed Mary osh, Peeteeneet, them. by the hair and cut her throat. lesser chiefs to join In the Horrified at her own foul deed net Peace Smoke. In 1891 Chief Kanosh Royal Facial Tissue dragged Mary's holy an Betsykln It at was that at time this Brigham Young again and a and shallow ravine to conFreartist C.R. Carvalho, from Chalk Creek, and covered It wlthbrush and rocks. was who mont's Expedition versed with him through an InBack In her own Wickiup she In Salt the the winter was told lake Be standing terpreter. talk to no one. Chief would a Betty Crocker of City, painted the pictures Pioneers were going to have Kanosh came demanding to know name new and Kanosh's HAMBURGER Kanosh. Walker the HELPERS. and village there, MILLERS 24 oz. where Mary was but she only for the place was Fillmore. portrait remained In I'tah, hut cried and wouldn't talk, lie Jar Chief Kanosh expressed the Carvalho took his painting of sent out braves to find Mary. went he wanted when Mm with Walker no he longer wish that Luncheon MEAT ln They foui.d the body and c. CAN to ran, but desired to have east. (An oil painting of Chief to terrible confessed her north-east a it'rmanent home, and that at Kanosh hangs In the deed. A counsel was held Biltmore Chicken Loaf 12oz. MINCED (Doxsee) 8 oz. his village they had raised corn, room of the main floor of the Kanosh and his men. FillIn rMnvni f ne Old Capital Museum and potatoes, pumpkins leans, Can Betsykln was condemned to die. lie desired to be Instructed in more.) to strave lo death chose She the and after At of ChlckenCreek, a better way planting as her punishment. A willow of klttlklnlck bark harvesting crops. The two chief last pi; teepee was built within sight of established a friendship that en- had been smoked by both the the village, she was given a the and red white Only dured through many years. "chiefs, Jug of water, then the entrance one thing made Kanosh sad, the treaty was drawn up and was closed and she was left Julia hts he had no children. signed. Chief Kanosh proudly great Turuniachl said this valley Is never to be a place where knives are drawn, or arrows notched. It Is a place where The Ute Nation claimed the lands throughout most "of the barter, nothing more. The Great Basin, and arid and desomountain waters flow freely to late as it was It was their the blue salt sea. It Is wisdom home and the many tribes were for us lo seek the Mormonees h scatteres up and down the Is peace. Is that not so my brothers'" Range of mountains where ever there was water for their Most of the brothers resected Sowlette and knew Wahker camps. This was also the area was and quarel-som- e. roughly alloted to the Mormon Pioneers by the Federal governThey agreed to wait until the Pioneers had rested ment, and It was Inevitable that there should be conflict. No for a few sleeps then they would one thought to ask the Indians return for a counsel. They for the land or even to make turned their horses toward the a treaty with them for its use. trail that followed along the Small wonder then that a little river bank that flowed from the band of mounted Indian., waited fresh water lake to be lost tn the sea of salt. silently In the shade of some "Sowlette is a woman, "WalkJuniper trees and watched the er said In disgust as he role long line of awkward wagons with their beside Kanosh. "Some day hell weary oxen and horses crawl down the canyon be sorry we let the Mormonee to the flat valley floor, of what live. Kanosh was of a gentler Is now Salt Lake City. nature than Walker. He had a News of the coming of the great affection for this Impetous Pioneers had been brought to son of his father and rememberChief Sowlette, the whitehaired ed It had been Walker and chief of the Tlmponogats (whose Arapene who had avenged his village was on the banks of fathers death when four traithe fresh water lake near Provo,) torous devils of their won tribe, and be had sent word to hts and Wnsrien besides, had come many brothers to come to his lo his fathers lodge professing and deliberately, village for a Pow Wow. Sowfriendship, lette was chief of the largest wlthot warning had knifed the tribe of the lies. He had chief as he came forward from twenty-eigor more brothers, hts own teepee lo greet them hs his father, known lo the white with hts hand raised In the sign man only as the "Great Chief", of peace. Walker and A rajene had many wives. At that time had followed Ih killers until the wealth of a chief was estiIn an ungarded moment they had mated by how many wives he slept, then like two snakes the could buyor steal. JlmBrldger, brothers had wriggled lntothelr with whom the Indians talked camp with knife between their and traded freely, had told the teeth, with quick strokes they scouts of Sowlette, that the had killed them before they "Mormonees were a different could reallre what had happened "breed" than the men going to and bearlr.g Ihelr scalps they California and Oregon. They had returned to the walling had been driven from their horn e women In their fathejs lodge by the "greatest of all rivers" and triumphantly told the news and were planning to stay. They that their father was avenged. had brought women and children The Great Chief was laid tenand talked of Heaven rather derly lo rest beneath a great than trapping, furs, and barter. pile of stones, but his name could no longer be uttered by Among the brothers we re the living. Because no one was Walker, the war chief, Arapene who was next In line for this ever allowed to speak hts name e, honor, Kanosh, San Pitch, it Is not recorded tn any of our history books. Ammon, and Sowlette, who watched anxiously while the In an article published In Ihe Intruders lined up their wagons Progress, April 2, 1971, Mrs. near a willow bordered stream. Maud Crane Melville gives us some Interesting fadsconcern-In- g "Perhaps they too will go to the land of the Californios." Chief Kanosh. Mrs. Melsaid Sowlette. They need rest. ville says that Kanosh whose name was Cr's as he said It... They need food for their horses. When their bellies sr full me was made Chkf of the Tahvant will go counsel with them." after the death Kachuch, who Chief Walker, tall, lithe, and was chief when Kanosh, his riding a magnificent stallion he and his had stolen on one of h!s many mother, returned lo t tah from horse stealing raids In CaliShe Indicates his California. fornia, showed his sontempt for as dale birth belrg near 1823, (he Mormonees by spitting on and his fathers untimely death the ground and growling. We was In the 1830s when Walker could kill them all In one quick was also quite a young man battle. They are weak and tired (born about 1808), so Kanosh and now is the time lo wipe was young enough that a few them out." years of waiting gave him a Sowlette shoo hts head. "No, chance lo become familiar with the valley and his brothers my brother. It Is not for us to farther north. He had become quarrel with these Mormonees. There Is room In the valleys the chief of Ihe Pahvant Trlt for all of us. Nor Is the valley by the lime the Pioneers came by the sea of salt the place for to I'tah; had married a handa killing. It Is called the Valley some Indian woman by the name of peace. Our grandfather the of Julia; and was well estabgreat Turunlacht said this valley lished on the stream of Corn of peace. Our grandfather the Creek with a band of about wat-satc- (Ha pronounced his name . Kanosh went back to Sally, who was reluctant to talk about It. For many weeks he called on her and finally she told him she did not like the Indian way of life. Living In a Wickiup would be Impossible for her, after being raised In the Young home. Si.e told him If he'd build her a house, with glass windows and a wood floor shed be Ms wife. This caused KanHe went osh great sadness. back to his village and told Kimball, Calllster, King and George that he didnt know what to do. These good friends when they heard of his problem got him to go, and with many of hts Pahvant tribesmen he final-ly decided It was for the best, T, i That winter the grieving Indian about the Gospel of the hurch of Jesus Christ. He could read a little and what his mind didnt understand his heart did. On May 11, 1874, he went to Salt Lake City and was baptised as a member. H was baptised as a member . He was ordained an Elder by Dtm-lc- k B. Huntington, noted missionary to the Indians. On one of his trips to Salt Kanosh's W lfe Sally Lake City Chief Kanosh called upon Brigham Young at his exhibited the fact that he was home . He was treated with the only Indian who could write great respect and a meal was his name. Some of Walkers set for him on a table, as the men were gambling but he chief had long ago learned to howled them all down and said, use a knife and a fork. 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