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Show Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631, Friday, August 4, 1978 KANOSH Continued from page I formation in several histories of early Hatton and Kanosh towns fix the date of the summer of 1843 as the time when an Indian woman brought her four sons to the Pahvant Valley, She had received a message that her sorts' father, and Indian Chief of the Pahvant band of the Paiute Indians, had been killed, and she w anted her sons to claim their rights as sons of the Chief. Walker, or Wakara, was made War Chief. San Pitch (San Pete) was made Chid over the band of Indians in what is now called Sanpete 3 youngcr b Aropene (Arapcen) was made the Chief of the Pahvants. This band of Indians lived mostly in the Fillmore, Meadow , and Kanosh areas. It is known thal the mother of Chief Kanosh lived near a Catholic Mission in California. All the boys spoke Spanish, Walker quite fluently, and it has been hinted that the mother was part Spanish. Their father was from the area Most of the Utah near Utah Lake. (Yutui Indians migrated from the cold, smwv valleys ol the Wasatch Range to where the climate was more mild, either Arizona or California. I was probably one one ol these migrations of his iiiIh that Kanoshs father met and in.ii ned tin California Indian girl. When die Mormon F'loneers tame into the uta vallcvs. Chief Kanosh had .1 iribe ut some 200 Indians calling him Chi' I. W,dkcr was YVar Chief in the letritoiy south ot Provo. He resented ihe coming o! the while men and i. cased thc.ni a great deal of trouble. He was not only resentful of the pio-i- i ers taking over what he called the hunting grounds of his people, but he knew he would not be permitted to sic d horse s and even children from the Blaiktoot and Shoshones if the white men settled between his domain and the1 northern Indian tribal areas. He was a handsome Indian and his classical features observed in an oil painting ot him shows a rather cruel mouth that might have revealed his Y c settlement then torture the children until a white man would offer them a gift in exchange for the Indian child (captured from some other tribe), c,.tra's brother, Charles Decker, had gjvcn bis gun for Sally when he saw the M(jjans cutting her w ith knives, then sc3ring the wounds with fire brands, Sail v was shy around Indians, as her memories of her own race were not happy ones. However, Brigham Young had told her what a kind man Kanosh was and that he was lonelv, so she served him with kindness in her manner. Chief Kanosh was, of course, vulnerable to her charms. He went to Brigham Young and offered him blankets, horses, and other gifts as a Brigham purchase price for Sally. Y'oungs told him that Mormons did not buy or sell their women, hut if Sally wanted to marry Chief Kanosh he, himself, would perform the ceremony and give him his blessing. Kanosh was dated and went to tell Sally he wanted her for his wife. She shook her head, Then seeing how sad he was, she told him that if the Chid would build her a house with glass windows arid a wood floor, she would marry him. With vers little hope that he could ever meet her demands, ( hicf Kanosh returned to Corn (.retk. Hu white friends in the settlement were sorry' tor his sadness and decided to Hiev built help solve the problems. him a cabin ot logs with a plank floor hief ,ind two glass windows. Jubilant. Kanosh went back to Sal! lake ( it v to claim him bride. Sails was a well trained housewife, She quuMv cook, and seamstress. made friends wilh the white women ot However, the Indian the settlement. women never quite accepted her. their Brigham Young always visited at house, and as a wedding gift he and his wife, Clara, had given the couple a full set of dishes, cooking pans, a small stove, bed clothes, and material for curtains at Sails s two glass windows. As tar as the posterity of Chief C BACK h-- "Better Homes and Gardens had better shine up their flash bulbs cause d I ever get all these projects completed it is really going to be something lo see. Of course I will have to tiring them in under the cover of darkness or blindfolded because one glance of the yard will definitely send (hem shrieking. 1 k- v , New extension a-- . agent for 1 C v Millard County i v i 1 1 . h- 1 i 1 . warns UDOT of fire danger H and dry ", "No rain in davs without meusureable I 'Nor,," dang r is exceed-I'm; .tv ,t, " You have all of tins before an ii" a the 1 ih Department of I ram.por eii n iLDOI) would like' to ,Jii i's vone lo ihe w, nmngs already s ! Ml . e 1 1 I 1 soon b J. he L l e aw ol f i is asking motorists lo me in leased tire danger. Do not throw i igurcns or anv lighted mat- "a! lioin va.ir vehicle. The LDOT v ti'vd-u to hi !p us protect your e vestna nt ill ihe 1, ghways of Utah. "iaiiur tins season we were to" un ii: enough p, reieivc good r entail whi.fi helpi d ihe dryland I't.ses to grow along the highway svvcri." stand laird I.arsen, land-s, e co oi .final- r f r the I DOT . "The jlains lace now used up all the ava.l.-'and are htghlv it. .miuie e ) flic sits, r; tie I , c ; f 1 In the early 1900s, Powell Edwin Hubble, an American qalaxies exist outside our own. a- 1 astronomer, discovered that the chairmanship of Delia 'I he Cornu it of Governments is h.rmulaling plans to formal promote ordc r in Millard upon anneuiic cm- m ill it the Interne upturn Power Project tiPP) wiil be 1m .nine in the Delta area. of Governments The Council (COG) is comprised ol the Coumv Commission, Lent Lovell, Leigh R. Maxfield. Harold Stewart and the Mavors of all Towns and Cities in the County; Mr. Roper. Bob Edison, Scott Sheriff, Fillmore, Oak Chv: Waller Likins, Hinckley; Richard Kct'h Nielson. Lynndyl, Nielson, leammgton: Carl Leavitt, Scipto; Wells Kenney, Holden. DeLynn Iahrum. Meadow; Grant Brunson, Kanosh. Recently the Council appointed a large, diverse group of county residents to serve in an advisory are capacity to COG. Ihtse appointees Richard W.M. Reid. June Hospital, Packer, EM. Hospital; Ned M. Church, Industrial Development Director; Charlotte Morrison. Non-LDRepresentative; Merlin Christensen, Delia LDS Stake Pres.; Lloyd George, Fillmore LDS Stakr Pres.; Gayle R. Nielson. Oak City; Carol Ann Nielson, Ivnndyi: Floyd Bradfield. Leamington; crdell S. Bishop,. Hinckley; Harold Bcv'kstrand. Meadow; George A. Sims. Scipio; Paul Johnson and Karl Lyman. area; Ldiib Anderson . Dale Roper, Hatch Farnsworth, Delta City; Joyce Scot-lorDuane Bartholomew and June C hristopherson, Fillmore City. Two more appointees are to be named in the very near future by ihe County Commission to represent the Deseret Oasis area and Flow ell. At a recent meeting of COG it was the decision that the Advisory Committee be appointed to to study past plans and assist m formulating future plans in the following areas: 1, Urban and Agriculture Land Use and Growth; 2. Transportation, Tourism and Recreation; 3. Commercial, Industrial and Natural Resources; 4. Public Services, Facilities. Utilities ' and Land Improvement. Basis of the present studv is the during the Master Plan adopted in tenures of Walter Fkiits. Bruce Lovell and Arch Christensen as County Commissioners. Following a cursory Master Plan it was studv of the the unofficial opinion of COG that wilh some changes it would serve todav s as future needs. needs as In any case, as present plans are continued, revised or discarded by the will then COG consider the decision and advise the Planning Commission who is also the Countv Commission, It is hoped that county residents will contact their Committee representative Advisory with ideas and suggestions on county planning. Through the generosity of the Millard County Chronicle and ProgMinutes of COG ress. unofficial meetings will be published, hereafter. friendliness and thev became mutual admirers, with a real brotherly affectum dial lasted to the end of their lues. In making friends with the Pahvant alley settlers, instead of fighting them, he won their lasting gratitude. There were many times when he kept his warlike and impulsive brolher, Walker, from doing real mischief to lb- pioneers by killing, stealing, and b ightening attacks. In spue ot ihe gentle nature ot C hiet Kanosh, his personal life was filled His first wife, Julia, with tragedies. was a handsome squaw who grieved Kvause she didn't have children until she lost her mind. Ihe tribe s council l she w as possessed by an evil stunt. She was condemned to die and was tied to the back of a wild horse and Kanosh then dragged to death. married another Indian girl by the name ot Betsvkin. All went well Kir a lew vears, but when she, too, remained childless. Chief Kanosh married for a third time to a young Shoshone squaw bv the name of Mary V ureas. By this time Kanosh town was settled and called Corn Creek. Chief Kanosh had been baptised into the Mormon Church jud was proud of being a Lamamtc. Plural manage was not uncommon among the Ute Indians. Some sources have indicated thal Chief Kanoshs lather had many wives, and many sms, among them the noble Chief of the limpanogas Indians, Chief Sowiettc. Be that as it may, Betsykin, wife of Chief Kanosh, was very jealous-hearted- . She wouldn't recognize Mary as her equal in am wav, but her great fear was that Mary Vorcas would give Chief Kanosh children, and this she had been unable to do. One dav Mary was surprised to have Betsvkin seemingly forget her unfriendliness and invite her to go hunting squirrels to provide meat for their dinner, Mary went willingly enough. The custom was for one person to carry water to pour in the hold the squirrels had made, while the other crouched over the hole to grab the little animal as it came out. While Mary was watching for the squirrel to come up. Betsvkin grabbed her from behind and cut her ihroat. Then she dragged her to a ravine and covered the body with brush. When Betsvkin realized what she had done she went reluctantly back to the village, but would say nothing about what had happened to Mary. However, Chief Kanosh knew something was wrong and sent braves out to find Mary, they did and Kanosh was beside himNot only for Mary, self wilh grief. but for the penalty he knew would have to be meted out to Betsykin for her horrible deed. The Indian Council met and decreed that Betsykin would have to pay with her life for Mary's murder. They gave her a choice of being dragged by a wild horse or starving. ihe chose the A willow wickiup was built latter. within sight of the village, and she was given a small jug of water. The wickiup was walled up making escape impossible and she was left to die. The Indians of the village could hear her moans until death finally silenced them. For several years Chief Kanosh was left without cither wife or child to comfort him. He went on a trip to Salt Lake City to visit his friend, Brigham Young. His friend invited him into his home and had a fine dinner served in the kitchen, and an Indian girl, Sally, served the food. Sally had been raised in the home of Brigham Young by his wife. Clara Decker Young. Clara's brother had saved Sally from a tribe of Indians who had brought her as a captive to sell to While the Mormons the Mormons. didn't ever "buy the Indian children, the Redmen knew that the whites were tender hearted so they would sometimes bring the prisoners close to a s.-u- V FORTH continued from page and pealing, I can see as bettor umdi progress the old seat, all eraeked plan out of the garbage- and begin extensive and keep mv enthusiasm up. I ended up i epau work. And that is how But at die pieseni my enthusiasm intended.) with a black seal (no pun is not mv biggest problem. It is ihe Ilu animals are nol real lumber companies. After one trip to choose and miv paint and ask lor iiTipirsstd with all this activity. Gvpsv front the dust and paint strange items like loam brushes they has v lever is just beside station a look oui and hang a closed lumes and Howard been a i uss alwavs He I drive' I has himself. now taken sign when up. have about Inking the buuei and when to horiowing cats and sneaking up on snack thin. They pi-null pale at ntv Lewis threw the plastic over ihe I bar he didnt limber p, move the finally Teal for colors. nqiiists h.und orange hut mv troubles dido t biito i. Well Howard is just in a fit. He km as it is l lie. e bill he can't get at ii end there. Win n I gol home lewis thill ihe plastic, said, "You've go! lo fie kidding d either. As I Rita isn't too i i. mother. What does tie know? He is m hours home with colotblmd. Bui Shcllie who is not spind most ol mv look a.r.e.s on a s.iid putty on illy hornble colorblind with Nam lorf.u Carol her iilosi jxiilic Voiie. I hands and pain! dtippmuoff mv elbows t 1, it, k it w ill be i c.diy lie e once you she has to do all the dishes and wash. Sue is most pm out and tells me U si d to u like in Orange is a ni.e 'warm te.it full v, "You always make me do h m g. i color, li bnghtens a kinhen cunodcr-ab- i lithe A'so the meal, have s .Nt mu h to everyone's disrr iv bur did wonder a bile: with all the mine. I don't get hungry in ihe summer strange tractions I was getting d menial Huk should rail Mood, at die si fietite u 's a real wasic of time to l)r. James I Bushnell w.i- appomiej if taw si p in the middle of a project and risk and alth see have my Milked slipped Cour.'v. Fvte'iislton agent, ! f'.r liking orange, but lice, my good the blush going stiff tor a dumb thing effective' Julv 17 to n pia, e Kent U like a meal. Also we havent seen the c arm; a.ol looked and she said II I ,r r Bushie neigh Chapman who resigned. ku ben table for about three weeks as as in And is liked like as she e Mastshe BS rs you and a it degie Completed it is si a kid, with dishes out of ihe v. ill ever Ins! it. a and seiihd v) dial H'lghum Young L'nivcrsity But tin a tie 'C is the toilet seat. A ctybo ard we ;ue painting. But I tiguie ihfl at Ohio Slate in Weed Si h nee as I. mg as the e is bread, bologna, mhk m lU"h. lot of ryrhtov s wt nt up win n painted Suite then, he has been e ( i! I bv die Chevron Comp.cv it and Cold cm cal thev cedi make it. be to it bla- k very thought I did take time cm to read ihe working with herbicides on wnd appiopriate. b matches the bla.k groin m mi comic! programs. in die tilt'. Seemed like a natuial to me. p.qier Sen lav and found the Di. Bnshnrl! was horn and real 'd I should ad in the ciassihui seiNon toilet the that fascinating Actually explain in Meadow and is presently making I s had A movie audio is nmduciine a maj. r seat wasn't particularly planned. home iht'Tc wilh his wife and bur this smirch for an ideal voting man. Ihe old, old toilet installed, gorgeous children. a a mark on it, just not qualities thev are seeking are: I all, beamy. Ihe County Fxtension Service is And I dashed Natural, Athletic Physique, Animal out and bought a right pleased to have him on their staff and if very modern seal to go with it- YVril as M.uie : s i, MvsteilollS, lnielllg'Tii you need assistance in your agriculturStar (Jueiiv, and no experience usual wiili my plans, it didnt qune al piograms. call t licit oftn e. workout The new seat just didn't work in eili ii. N, w vvooklti t that he a parade 1,1 go v. an h? Too bad I bad to Work with the old appliance. It fit alright but Self control is at the root of M.eui.iv all virtues. the lids wouldnt hit as they bumped Samuel Smiles '.Tuesday. Well bac k (o the can say is into the rounded back. So I had to fish horn? inim 'Vtmcm. All Page 3 1 County plans for growth Cir.ic ter. C h it f kanosh, on the other hand, w as kindly , intelligent, and had a keen sense ot justice. He set rued to realize that he could do nothing to slop the white man from sctthng in the Utah valleys. He met Brigham Young with an attitude of Kanosh is concerned he never did have One account that any children. mentioned a son was checked out, but the results showed it was probablv an adopted sort brought from California by his brother, Chief Walker, At the dead) ot Chief Kanosh, he vv ,i , honored with a funeral and buried in die (own's cemetery. When S.tllv died, she was bunt'd by his side, and later the town erected a monument to the C fin f whose friendship had saved main lives of the areas pioneer settler Muvh of Ihis slory was told bv Marv Ann George ('hesley, younger sister ol f lien George Bird, called "Aunt Nil.' bv people m Kanosh. Both worn n we .c well acquainted with Chief Kanosh aii.l his people. I'luit r Mavor Lcl.itiii J. Roper. S Sutherland-Sugarville-Abraha- 19 l9 i aunt NI LL'S COOKIES, fi benefit of the great Chief Kanosh Pageant, may be purchased at Merle Hone's or Maida Walton's homes, Pioneer Market. Dawn's Beauty Shop, or the Information Booth. Please buy all you can. rzizzi erzenva aczsst |