| Show I N fiGHTER Of 41 TELLS TELL EXPERIENCE SALT LAKE CITY The CITY The The whistling slug gug from the rifle of a II bloodthirsty Ute missed Its mark way back In 66 and as a result John H. H Woodbury a pioneer of ot 47 is now able ble to relate his personal experiences in early Indian uprisings in Utah Although the bullet missed Woodbury Woodbury Woodbury Wood- Wood bury h his s mule was not so fortunate and with the collapse of his steed HU Woodbury faced facea the necessity w OI running run run- ning and ning and running fast fast to to keep his hair on His experiences of the early days were Iere recalled to the mind of Mr Woodbury Woodbury Woodbury Wood- Wood Covered Wagon bury as a result of the Days celebration n to be held in Salt Lake July 26 24 which he will attend together with ith several other pioneers of 47 as a guest of ot honor honO It was during the Black Hawk that Mr Woodbury escaped the deadly in intent intent In in- tent of a warring Ute I thought I was going to miss that war In the first place he saidI saidI saidI said I told em I couldn't leave and I gave twenty-five twenty dollars to help In fitting fitting fit fit- fitting ting out some one else Then toward evening e Henry Dinwoody and Thomas McClellan came around and wanted me to take my team and drive e some of ot the men to camp Bout sixty of ot us went from the city fifty as infantry and ten on horseback When we got to a camp between bet Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons nobody wanted me to go back so I went on with em and we all camped at the head of ot Spanish Spanish- Fork canyon nearly a month The Indians had been driving off oft cattle and horses of the settlers and andt t hem tin lin the Ih n We camped along the Indians Indian's trails I and tried to head them off oft but after we had been there a month and hadn't hadn't had had- nt seen any Redskins w we we got kind of careless One day when all the fellows on horses were out and there wasn't many of us left in camp George Lambert rushed in and said he had just seen a abig abig abig big Newfoundland dog We guessed it was an Indian in bearskin A little Later later later lat lat- er we saw some figures moving In the brush and when we shot at them they went off oft We found moccasin tracks and ind I told em then Be De a a. wonder if we dont don't see Indians before night Just as I started out to round up the horses I heard a gun go off I Iwas Iwas I I Iwas was on a mule and I spurred him up towards the cedars to see what the I trouble was A couple of the fellows staggered out In the open The Redskins Redskins Redskins Red Red- skins d got em One of them a fellow fellow fel fel- low named Brown Drown died before we could get him back to camp Then I I. I saw the Indians riding toward us waving waving wavIng ing blankets to stampede the horses and shooting One of them got the mule I was riding through the lung and nose but he sure missed me They had better guns than we had end more of em We only had two long range rifles in the camp I ran to get mine and as I got into camp I I saw a buck over Browns Brown's I body ready to scalp him I shot hot and andl andI he dropped his knife and ran for his l I horse We found the knife afterwards Captain Dewey sent two express riders to Mt Pleasant for help The Indians kept con coming ng back and we had trouble with them all day They were part of Chief Taby's tribe He was I friendly an and wouldn't have ha let his Indians attack us if It hed he'd been there but he was away and Jim his son son-in- law started em out They got away with most of our horses before they were through Suppose they took the herd up to Fairview or some place near and sold it far for we never ne saw of em any again acaIn Mr Woodbury still has the gun he used on that day It is a Springfield muzzle loader rifle made in 1855 with witha a s forty inch barrel barret I 1 can shoot hoot half halt a mile with lith it easily he said Mr Dir Woodbury also possesses a U. U S S. S army sword that was made in 1865 John Haskell Woodbury was born September 11 1815 on a farm which his family Had purchased from Joseph Sn Smith th in Nauvoo oo Illinois Ills His parents were Catharina Rebecca and Thomas Hobart Woodbury and they arrived Cd with ith their one small son in the valley alley of ot the Great Salt Lake In September 1874 About the first thing I remember was moving mo from the old fort to our cabin down dO 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 first firs t nursery in the state tate there I 1 went ent to school down on the corn corner comer of West Vest Temple and Fifth South A Aman Aman Aman man named Parker was the teacher I Parker we boys called him The sides of ot the room were covered with willows lS and the top was as brush like the bowery bo We had logs with legs in em for benches The Indians used to call all me little White WhIle Head When I got rot all an dressed up in my suit of buckskin with ith a arab arab- rab- rab cap I thought I looked looted pretty prett fine Mr Woodbury has farmed most of his life When he Was was a very young boy he was 85 sent down to his fathers father farm tarm near Murray to take care cue of or stock and later went to Weber and Dixie He moved to Granger on the site of ot his present home In Jn 1893 1693 |
