Show PIONEER reminiscences the following la Is ono one of several ar auclea submitted by the covered wagon days committee and which will he be published in the news as they aro are received SALT LANN LAKE CITY the whistling slug from the rifle of 0 a bloodthirsty ute missed its mark way back in GO and as a result john 11 II woodbury a pioneer of 47 Is now able to relate his personal experiences in early indian uprisings in utah although th bullet missed woodbury his mulo mule was wan nat not so fortunate and with the collapse of his steed woodbury faced tho necessity of running and ana running fast to keep tits hla hair on ills of the early days wore recalled to the mind of mr woodbury na as a result of tho the covered wagon days celebration to lie bo hel held 1 I in salt lake july 24 ag which ho will attend together with several other pioneers of 47 as aa a guest of honor it was during the black hawk war that mr air woodbury escaped the deadly intent of oc a warring uto 1 I thought I 1 was going to inces eliat war in tho the first place ho he said 1 I told em I 1 leave and I 1 gave twenty five dollars to help in fitting out someone someone else then ao toward evening henry dinwoody and thomas thomaa mcclellan mcclelian camo came around and wanted me to take my team and drive some of the men to ao camp I 1 rout bout sixty of us as went from the I 1 city fifty as infantry and ten on horseback when we got to a camp between nig big and little cottonwood canyon nobody wanted me to go back so go I 1 wont went on with ern em and we all camped at tho the head of spanish fork canyon nearly a month the indians had been driving oft cattle and horses of bf tho the settlers and taking them up tip into the strawberry wo we camped along the indians traits trails tind and tried to head them oft off but after wo we had been there a month and seen any redskins Red skins we got kind of ocar careless eless one day when all the fellows on homes were out and there many of us left in camp george lambert rushed in and said lie he had just seen a big newfoundland dog wo we guessed it was an indian in bearskin A little later we saw some figures moving in the brush and we shot at them thenia they went off we found moccasin tracks and I 1 told era ein then no be it a wonder it if wo we dont see indians before night just as I 1 started out to round up tip the horses I 1 heard a gun go off 1 I was on a mule and I 1 spurred him up towards the cedars to see what the trouble was A couple ot of the fellows stag staggered gerea out in the open the red skins d got em one ot of them a fellow named brown died before we could get him back to camp then I 1 saw the indians riding toward us as waving blankets to stampede stamp Rde the horses borses and shooting one of them got the mule I 1 was riding through tho the lung and nose but lie sure missed me they hall had better guns than we had and more of erg em we only had two long range rifles in the camp I 1 ran to got get mine and as aa I 1 got into camp I 1 saw it a buck deanin over browns body ready to scalp him I 1 shot and lie he drowned ills his knife and ran for his horse we found the knife afterwards d s captain dewey sent two express riders to mt aft pleasant for help the indians kept coming back anti and wo we had trouble with them all day they were part of chief gabys tribe ile he was friendly and have let ills hla indians attack us it hed been there but lie he was away and jim his son eon in law started ein out they got away with most of our horses before they were through they took trie the herd up to or some place hear and sold cold it for we ive never saw ally of em again mr woodbury still has the gun he be I 1 used on oil that day it la is it springfield muzzle loader rifle made in 1855 with a fo forty ty inch barrel 1 I can hat halt a mile with it c cally s fly hs he J mr V 1 41 u ury y abw possessor possesses pos sesso a U S army auora that was made in john haskell woodbury was born september 11 1845 on a farm which his family had purchased from jo josaph aepli smith n nauvoo illinois ills his parents were catharina Cathar lna rebecca and thomaj hobart woodbury and they arrived with their one small son in the valley of the great salt lake in september 1847 about the first thing I 1 remember was moving from the old fort to our cabin down on the lot between fifth and sixth south and first and second west it was known as old orchard square as my father planted the f first nursery in the state there 1 I went to school down on the corner of west temple and fifth south A man named parker was the teacher toglee parker we boys boy called him the sides ot of the room were covered with willows and the top was brush like tho the bowery wo we had logs with legs in em cm for benches wo we were kings base one day down by the school house and miles allies romney was cabasin me I 1 looked back to see how close lie ho was and put my leg in a cedar post hole they all tell fell over me I 1 was laughing until I 1 tried to get up tip and then the boys found I 1 walk they carried me hoine my leg was broken at the hip it took th three ree men to get it back in place and 1 lay in bed six alx weeks with it a box built around it for a cast it was such a novelty that all the kids in town came to see it and they fetched me the measles whooping cough and chicken pox lie he added ruefully the indians used to call me little white head when I 1 got all dressed up tip ih my suit of buckskin with a rabbit I 1 thought I 1 looked pretty fine mr woodbury has farmed most of his iff life when he was a very young boy he was sent down to his fathers farm near murray to take care of stock and later went to weber and dixie ile he moved to granger on the site of ills his present home in 1893 ills his wife who died several years year sago ago was sarah A bray and of ills his nine children four are living they are catherine catharine W eldridge dridge EI willim henry warren haskell and harrlson 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