Show PIONEER reminiscences tho the following la Is one ona ot of several articles submitted by the covered days committee and which will bo be published in the news as they are received SALT LAKE CITY the whistling slug from the rifle of a bloodthirsty ute missed its kiark way back in ag anil and IB as a result john 11 II woodbury a pioneer ot of ma Is now able to relate ills his personal experiences in early indian uprisings in utah although th bullet missed woodbury his mule was not so fortunate anti with the collapse of his steed woodbury faced the necessity ot of running and ana running fast to keep ills his hair on ills experiences of the early days were recalled to the mind of mr wood woodbury bury as tt a result of the covered wagon days celebration to be held in salt lake july 2426 24 26 which he will attend together with several other pioneers ot of 17 as a guest of honor it was during tho the black hawk war that mr lr woodbury escaped the deadly intent of a warring ftp 11 1 thought I 1 was going to nila that war in the first place he said 1 I 1 told em I 1 leave and I 1 pave gave five dollars to help in fitting out someone olae also then toward evening henry dinwoody and thomas mcclellan came around and wanted me ino to take taha my team and driva some soilo of the men to camp bout sixty of us went from the tha city c fly fifty na its infantry and ton on horseback when we got to a camp between big and little cottonwood c anyon nobody wanted mo me to go back so I 1 wont vent on with em and we all camped at the head of at spanish fork canyon nearly a month trio nth the indians had been driving driling oft off cattle and horses of the settlers sett lors and taking them up tip into the strawberry wa camped along the indians trails and tried to head them oft off but after wo we lied had been there a month and seen any Red renskina we got kind of careless one day when all tho the fellows on horses were out and there many of us left iet in camp george lambert rushed in and said bald lie he had just seen a big newfoundland dog doe we guessed it was an indian in bearskin A little later we saw some figures moving in the brush and we shot at them they went oft off we found moccasin casin tracks and I 1 told em then bo be a wonder it if we dont see indians indiana before night just as I 1 started out to round up tho the horses I 1 heard a gun go off I 1 was on a mule and I 1 spurred him up tip towards the cedars to see what the trouble was A couple of the follows fellows staggered out in the open the red skins akins d got em one of them n fellow ellow named brown died before wo we could got get him back to camp then I 1 saw the indians riding toward us its waving blankets to stampede the horses borses and shooting one of them got the mule I 1 was riding through the lung and nose but he sure missed me they had better guns than we had anil and more of em we only had two long range rifles in the camp I 1 ran to get mine and as I 1 got into camp I 1 baw a buck deanin over browns body ready to scalp him I 1 shot and lie dropped ills his knife and ran for ills his hoi so wo found tile the knife afterwards captain dewey sent two express riders to mt aft pleasant for help the tha indians indiana kept coming back and we had trouble with them all clay ahny were part of chief gabys tribe ite ile was friendly and have let its ills indians indiana attack us its it hed hea been there but lie he was away and jim ills is eon in law started lent om out they got away with most of our horses before they wore were through they took the lierd herd up to fairview or somo some place hear and sold bold it tor for we never saw any ot of em again mr woodbury stilt still nee nas tho the s g an used on that day it li Is it 11 loader rifle lacto in 1855 with a foy forty inch barrel 1 I 1 can all fatato braot half hal a mile with tt it ei fly ly its hs SA 1 mr ir N V iv irv alar poss osse a U S army sord tha was waa made in 1865 john woodbury was born september 11 1845 on 01 a farm which life his fall faintly illk had purchased from rom joseph smith n N nauvoo nauvoo illinois ills ilia were catharina Cathar lna rebecca and thomas woodbury arid and they arrived w with ith their one small email son in tho the valley ot of the great salt lake la in september 1847 about the first thing I 1 remember was vila moving in from froin the old fort to our cabin down on the lot between fifth and sixth south and first and second west it was known an aa old orchard square na as my father planted the first nursery in the state there 1 I went to school down on the tha corner of west temple and fifth south A man named parker was the teacher parker we boys called I 1 liin blin the sides of the room were covered with willows and the top was brush like the bowery we had logs with legs in em tor for benches we wore were kings base one day down by the school house bouse and allies romilos was chasan charill cha sill me 1 I looked back to see how close lie ha was and put my leg in a codar cedar post liole hole they all fell over me I 1 was laughing until I 1 tried to got get up and then the boys boya found I 1 walk they carried me home my leg was broken at a t the hip it took three nien men to get it back in place pince and I 1 lay in bed six weeks with a box built around it for a cast it was waa such a novelty that all the kids in town camo came to see it and they fetched me the measles whooping cough and chicken pox ho he added ruefully tile the indians used to call rae me little white read head when I 1 got all dress dresa ed up tip in my suit of buckskin with a rabbit Blin cap I 1 thought I 1 looked pretty tine fine mr woodbury lias has farmed most of ills life when he was a very young boy lie was sent down to ills his fathers tarm farm near murray to take caro care of stock and later went to weber and dixie ile iio moved to granger on tho the nite bite ot of tits his present homo home in 1833 1893 ills ilia wife who died several years year sago ago was sarah A bray an and ot of his nine children four are living they are catharine IV eldidge willim henry iry warren haskell lla and II arrison lson |