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Show M Word County PROGRESS Flllrn ore, I'tan Friday, June 23, 1072 COMPILED BY: DEAN CHESLEY DAVIES ROBISON and went to the river where they had thrown them and helped fish them out, (No mention Is made of punishment.) The fort wa s being extended at the suggestion of Mr. S.B. Huntington, fromthe 40 by 21 rods to 72 rods north and south by 80 rods east and west. Twenty-fiv- e more families came In November and December. Mr. A. W, Babbit was commissioned to build a penitentiary In Fillmore, the capital city, but this fit- ted; whch sight was almost sickening. Then they realized their won dreadful situaton. Thinking they could see Indians they became frightened and made their wav to Oak Creek where they met Captain Beckwith and outfit. When they ferocious and gloating demons. were told the news they, too, Arrows were flying like flocks were frightened and the whole of birds just rising on the wing. party They rode The deadly missiles from the as faststampeded. as they could to their rapid firing rifles of the dusky old was never accomplished. d on Pioneer warriors meted out death to the Creek on the main thoroughA little story here of an white men In the unsuspecting fare and sent word to Fillmore unusual occurrence. A, Mr. The cook and Crutz-fel- dt camp. of what had happened. John Ellolt, who had boarded Some were the first to fall. with Mr. Bradshaw, went north say that one of the men who The Lieut, was literally filled and brought his wife and daughcame Into Fillmore, be escaped with arrows as he tried to dethat as It may, the Fillmore ter to Fillmore. Soon after fend himself and fell among the men followed the tracks of the this Mrs. Ellolt concluded she grass and willows at a short men who had stampeded and would adopt an Indian child, distance. Some of the men rose so she took one to raise, an found saddles, straps, stirrups, from their beds moaning and and other Infant, strong and healthy. At thngs discarded by wringing their hands, dazed the frightened surveying party. night the little one was allowand frightened and unable to W hen the ed to nurse at her breast In returnraise any kind of defense. Some ed from Saltexpressmen order to pacify It. There was Lake after taking ran for their horses but were the bad news no milk at first, as her daughthey came with stopped by arrows and bullets, orders to raise a company of ter was fourteen years of age, though two managed to get to men to go and bury the remains but as time wore on milk comone horse without getting hit of the Gunnison party, and to mences to come, gradually a and made their as have burial services. Twenty first then more and more until fast as possible. The horse men left Fillmore for that purthe usual flow of milk came as stumbled when they got to the pose, as did Chief Kanosh It had with her first child. and A year or two after the Indian place where they were to ford a few other Indians to be their the river and only one man guides. This child was weaned there came returnrode In the race for life after ed with the company to the Ellolt home a beautiful remains of Mr. that, the other made his way to Gunnison, carried by Anson baby girl, and then a son. the river bank, plunged Into the Now the query Is, If the Indian Call, and those of Mr. Potter, water, swam to the other side carried by Byron Warner, Novchild had not been taken to and secluded himself fora while ember 13. Mr. Gunnisons raise, would Sarah Annand John there, then began walking to the remains were Interred here at Ellolt Jr., have been born. We place where Capt. Morris and Fillmore and those of Mr. Powill leave this question for some party met him on their way to tter were sent t,o Manti, San The physiologist to answer. the lake. They had been apPete County. Eight other bodies oddities of nature cause compraised of the attack by the were burled at the scene of ment and amusing diversion In neeln8 horseman, who had rld- - the massacre. One of the horses once In a while. den his horse as far as the was captured that made Its way animal had strength to run, to our fort. Mr. Byron Warner Central Utah Office then he had sped on by foot told me that while the rescuing to the strength of his fleet- battle-fielwas at the d Machine & Supply that party ness to overtake Capt. Beck Chief Kanosh sent a special with and his company, about ALL MAKES messenger to Mashagnab to fourteen miles north of Oak come to his camp. He was breathless, Creek. The chief seemed to know nervously unstrung and told that his war captain was In the them of his horrible experience RIPAIRfD vicinity, and of course a chiefs and the destruction oftheentlre orders are law to all Indians PHONE Gunnison party, as far as he of his camp. Mashagnab and RFS. knew. Captain Morris left with some of his braves came. When 33 South Main Street a party of riflemen for the scene they rounded tlie curve of the of the tragedy. They were much nver and came Into full Richfield, Utah view In hopes of rescuing some of of the was the scene such camp the attacked party, but the that It took nerve to face It. Mllllons of on the way He and his warriors were In straggler they met veterans separated from was the only one alive. war paint. They came at full service between Jan. 31, 1965, When they arrived at the speed and made their horses and June 1, 1966 have only place of the massacre the sight run crooked, each warrior until May 31, 1974, tocom-ple- te was so horrifying and dreadwhooping his fiendish war cry, theur Cl Bill schooling, ful It wa almost unbearable. and to all appearances there VA announced recently. The mutilation of the corses would be another attanqk at told plainly of the savage buthand. As they neared the camp chery that had been restored the chief stepped outandorder- A new, low calorie natural to. The wolves and buzzards ed them to be d quiet and sweetener from an African red already commenced their braided them for their hellish work, and whn all of the party deed. He commanded them to berry has been Isolated by a VA research team at the Unhad been located and the Morris ald m restoring the lost Iniversity of Pennsylcanlas Mon-e- ll party saw that their friends strumei.is and surveying re Chemical Senses Center. not only murdered, but paratus of Lieut. Gunnison. They rohhes, stripped, and mot 11- a- ,got down from their horses J al 4 bMHts at Meadow Creek, they reported that Indians shot at them and they returned the fire, wounding an Indian. When Inquiry was made of the Indians the said two Indians were killed and two wounded by the Hildreth Company. They said aOaces GHC) they had gone to the emigrants camp to trade buckskins with with two mares and a mule. the whites tried to take their from Corn Creek (Kanosh), that The race to the divide 3 miles bows and arrows, when they a man by the name ofRichards away was a hot one and well resisted it ended It a shoothad been robbed by savages on contested, the Indians using the ing fray, with further InvestiMay 25; Sam Brown and Bryon flat side of their tomahawks as Warner were sent north with gation we found one Indian had the prods to make the horses run. word that Chief Walker was been killed and two wounded. Sam Browns steed was too fleet It seems there was a great collecting a band of warriors. as close behind them ntJ,.he deal of travel on this southern Our Pahvant Indians under Chief divide, into Round Val-c- y to route California. Emigrants Kanosh expressed friendliness The Indian part where the river emptied Browns were passing very often and and declared their willingness mare turned to riding into the lake. the right the many were the callers at the to give aid to the whites If one rldlne Soon after the shooting of Thompsons mare fort. Some proved to be acwith his Indians by the Hildreth necessary. Apostles Coerge mule, turned to the party, A. Smith and Elder Ellas Smith quaintances fromthe east, some Indian we knew as Brown In after were total In the Indian riding his arrived Fillmore May 27, strangers wanting father and the wounding of two mare, as Once a young lady and were very concerned and supplies. other Indins by the Hildreth the. animals uiri m when the InJian'Iawu he whs krmed about the uprising of of the fort wanted toaccompnay party, Mashagnab and a few an acquaintance to California the Utes under Walker, as there being crowded he turned Into braves went to hunt ducks on some cedars on a hill, but came had been depardatons of the against her parents remonthe Sevier River near the lake. strances and they caused Corback Into sight and Mr. Brown Indians In I'tah County and about While they were hunting they took deliberate aim with his poral Warner and his guards heard the firing of guns. On seventy lodges of desperate Pistol and shot. The Indian fort Investigation they found white I'tes were on the war path. wlc,hl he ga,tes or fell from his horse as though Mr. F. H. Wilcox said he that night so an elopement would men to be camped In the vicinbe hindered. was at the upper same mill In dead, but when Mr. Brown reBlood ran wild In their ity. We note here the self effort covered his mare and went Petaetneet Canyon at the time and vengance filled their veins, that the early settlers had to brains. back to see about the Indian he M r. Keele was killed. He had White men had taken resort to In order to obtain had vanished. heard firing at the lower mill the life of the relation and had of the Brown looked up the and as he topped a ridge he many necessities and wounded two of their friends, ridge and saw the fellow making his saw Indians riding toward the comforts they needed for their hW.t ?e!! sh0uld homes. Women made their own ansver for way among the trees as If he Spanish Fork Canyon, but they It, now that the opwere in distress. After lookhad killed Mr. Keele and this soap, their men folks would go portunity had presented Itself. to the canyon and burn hard.seemed to be the starting of ing about for the Indian Mr. Revenge was sweet and natural wood Into heaps of ashes, which Brown returned to Dudley and the WALKER WAR. to the redman so they laid they sacked up and brought home their The express from the North, Thompson and they started for plans. and leached with water to make Fillmore as fast as they could July 31, advised that all meat The camp was to be surtravel. On the next ridge they lye, this the women added to stock In our county be sent to rounded while Its Inmates were any animal fat they could oba stronghold for safe keeping, saw tracks of the Thompson sleeping and at the break of fnare and the mule. They were accordingly a company of men, tain and after cooking a cerday the surprise attack was to under the direction of Thos. tain length of time, until It be made and the whites going along the road browsing destroywould Jell, they poured It Into . R. King was raised to take the ed. The apparently they had been In the river flat boxes and when It cooled bend was camp desered by the other Indian as dry stock away, in this commost propitious and It was cut into bars of soap. being too slow. At Cedar he occupants pany were Byron and Holstein unsuspecting, it used and talbeef They Warner and others who drove :ould be accomplished Springs, they recovered the sheep easily low to make candles, and nearly mare and the mule. The woundthe cattle to Salt Lake County and without much danger to the ed Indian, or for that matter every home had candle molds. and they were all put on the assaIlants---Moo- d thirsty for Many a winters supply of canthe other one, were never seen other side of the Jordan for revenge. I dles have seen my mother or heard of again. Yet some safe keeping. The men from It Is said the evil one will dip and box up for use. Wool here returned August 15, and people have supposed this lncl- favor his own, and It seemed was scarce but every bit of dent had something to do with martial law had been declared so on that eventful in It was used. Even the child- - ov .8r3 the fate that later befell Samuel so the fort was filled with exThVrnnv was ,he " one ren would go out picking if Brown and Joslah Call. The cited people. A steel triangle flrst up and had the fire Indians continued to try to steal was made for sounding an alarm off the brush after a herd of going at day break. Lieut. horses from the settlers, until to sum mon the laborers from the sheeP bad been driven through Gunnison was next to make his the rallfy- - All the wool was Col. Standage placed a heavy fields. The milk cows were He walked to the appearances. Placed together and carded into herded In one herd and placed guard around the corral at river a few rods away and rolls In one corral at night and there hand, then spun Into Fillmore. Crutzfeldt, another one of the yarn with a spinning wheel. The There must have been an This public corral guarded. party, came forth to the fire hum the extra session of the legislaspinning wheel could to finish dressing, when the might be described as follows: beard far Into the night, It was pretty hard to keep the ture May 22, as Councilor Call shot was struck and warning left for Salt Lake City for the cows calm while milking as The yarn was made Into skeins rang out on the morning air and colored with native dye purpose of attending it. Word they were easily dlstrubed by a terrible war accompanied by stuff made from many different came that the Indians were hos- another cow kicking, an angry whoop and murderous yell of shrubs, then cloth was woven tile In the Salt Creek area. bull, or a frolic-som- e girl In on a hand loom. was There So the workmen on (Nephl). pursuit of some boys hat. News from the north brought the territorial building at Fillnothing shabby about this cloth and u wore like Iron. We who lived In lumber a story of the killing of two more. couldnt always get cloth, then shanties adjoining the building whltemen near Payson and the we would trade with the Indians site, pulled them down and exciting story about the Moufor buckskin to be made Into ntaineer Jim Brldger lncttlngthc moved into the fort, adding trousers and fringed shirts. . their strength for what seemed Indians to against the we felt fit for the ballroom In to be an approaching uprising Mormons... hostility which caused no lita pair of kelslneer breeches tle concern among the people with heavy fringe along the outer our of little burgh. seams of the legs. Mr. Wm. Felshaw was electAt the General Conference ed a representative tothe legisheld In Salt Lake City Octolature, August 23, and about ber Apostle George A. this time John A. Ray came to Smith6th, and Apostle ErastusSnow Fillmore to make his home. were called upon to gather up In September the men cooperafamilies for the settling fifty ted Into groups to harvest their of Iron County. No doubt some The was done crops. threshing of the people stopped off at w by the old hippie Chaff Piler. Fillmore ss the report at that It was accomplished by hitchtime showed 304 souls residing to Its belts water the poing there. wer of Bartholomews grist October 29, 1853 , Lieutenant exmill, which had been erected J. W. Gunnison and guide. Potthe The summer. men during called at our fort for ter, stacked their grain near the Allen Russel reprovisions. grist mill that they might have members Potter called at his the benefit erf the water power, house and that he parted corn-me- al and have It ground Into grist with Potter. The rest of without too much moving. Gunnisons party wereencamp- ed rt" InCaVifor ri0neer Cek, wh and his guide visited Fillmore, C.a.mr,Ka t,0pped . 'If! I?1 mother, ebb, November 5th, wordcame he was sent to guard at the into the fort that Lieut. Gunnison southwest comer of the public and a portion of hts party had corral and was killed, It was been killed exon the Sevier river said, by the Indians. There by the Indians. A dispatch was seems to have been only one flour mill was started In Fillmore in February 1853, and was run by Bishop N.W. Bar. tholomew. Although James w had been appointed to the Legislature he received a call to go on a mission to Texas which he did. in Texas lie became acquainted with Jacob Croft and family. They, with Stephen Dugglns, Wm. Duggtns, and S.L. Matheny came to Fill- more to join the settlers here. In March, judge Whipple brought a chaff-pllto Fillmore to help with the threshing process. After the grain had passed through It a fanning mill was used to make it clean enough to use for the making of bread. A Mc-Ga- er On the 21st of March 1853 the County Commissioners met In the school house. And In April a Mr. O. Dudley arrived In Fillmore for the purpose of leather making. He had previously visited the locality and obtained from Mr. King a team with which to move his effects to Fillmore from Salt Lake City. On the morning before he reached Fillmore he arrive d at the Sevier River Just In- time to catch Daniel Thompson and Samuel Brown. They were on the opposite side of the river and he asked them to help him get across as there was some high water and the river couldn't be forded very Mr. Thompson and safely. Brown had come as far as the river to give aid to Mr. Johna-tho- n P. Smith who had been north to get fixtures for a flour mill. They had ferried M r. Smith over the river the night before and were just preparing to leave for home when Mr. Dudley shouted at them. They hobbled their horses and took their little skiff across the river to help Mr. Dudley. They had to take the wagon apart after It was unloaded. The front wheels were taken across astride the little boat, then the hind wheels, and luggage, then they towed the tight wagon box after them, swimming the team. Just as they were making the last trip they looked up the road where they had left their hobbled horses and sawa couple of Indalns sneaking toward the animals. The landing was made as soon as possible an Mr. Brown Jumped on one of the King horses, Mr. Dudley had borrowed, and took In after the killed by the Indians. Mr. Gunnison had been told of the unfortunate killing of an Indian by the Hildreth Company which he very much regretted, but he little thought of the revenge that would be heaped on him, as he had always treated the Indians kindly. He had separated from Captain Morriss command so they culd go In two parties to explore the Sevier River Country. Captain Beckwith was with Captain Morris and they were to operate on the upper portion of the river In the valley, and Gunnison operated In the lower be camp-groun- get-aw- i. t M WM ; k"'. n: ay MI-H1- 4 up-ha- ap-we- WfBUY printing' out of TOWN????? Or anything else??? - A trip to the location from which you are buying is -- pensive -- Postage and shipping isn't cheap - Phone " calls and letters to find out about late orders -- stead of letting it be our pense there is a mistake in it, --- If you flip the bill, not us Dealers don t go out of busi- ness like sales men go out of territories a independant insurance agent, we can supply the right manufacturer for jobs that can be done better and less expensive out of the shop --L- ike have crept dost to the victim In the darkness and then taken deliberate aim, Sept. 12. many rushed to the scene, but no Indians found. John King stayed at the post of duty the remainder of the with no further trouble. The Hildreth Co. of emigrants passed through Fillmore the 24th of Sept, and camped 9ubet we areu rrOUQi! salesmen and dealers are away from home by miles, we are right here in town. --T- Daniel Thompson, Wm. andCul-be- rt King, and Bartel Nelson, they received the particulars of their dispatch from Lieut. Beckwith, who was with the company camped at Pioneer Creek. They had not recovered from their fright and the tragedy and bid the carriers goodbye with tears in their eyes, declaring they too would training fnen veterans to be SEMI DRIVERS and theyre getting jobs all over he Short Training . ii Train an tha Truck Placement Aitittanca US, YOU'LL : e-.vS- ?" Imprinted almost anyway you want them!!! FIND OUT!! CAN YOU QUALIFY? ADDITIONAL immediately TRAINEES NEEDED Malt Thl regular x 3-- 10.00 envelopes now DfiPfll Important Coupe UNITED Advanced Truck Dover Homing, Inc j 20 Eot Strollord Ave Soil loke City Llton 84115 I I No. Advertising Made This Country Great! ! Why?. . . 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