Show pioneer residents reminded of early days by visit of nava joes oes tho the Nava Navajo joes cs who wore were brought to annab kanab a week ago by the co lambla picture company are attracting tr a great deal of attention train from tourists as well us as local people who remember stories of their visits to kanab tit in early pioneer days their dark sullen faces still speak peak s of the shrewd and crafty nature of their trIbes tribesmen meri as told of by pioneers who explored and settled this part of the southwest navajo trips across tile colorado river into info southern utah in pioneer fieck days always abway filled the settlers with tear fear and hoppy happy were they when the crafty neighbor was again well on the old navajo trail and headed for tile the crossing of at the cathers na an all incident of one olle of these visits to kanab related by a kanab pioneer says that five days after the town of kauhl kandab was laid out in 1870 by brigham young and a ana ty of men a band of about eighty armed Nava joca Joes time came to kanab some of them were on oil horses others were oil toot foot and au all had lariats lari ats erastus erasing snow and other church dignitaries were here when the indians arrived and the Nava joes prete pretended tided to be peaceful As quickly as snow iii party it had hd departed tor for their homes in dixie ahle the nava joea become became insulting there were only twenty men fit at uie the tort fort at the hint and so were greatly out iby the indians mhd indians knew this fig as well as th the e whites the pioneers feeling that they were in danger secretly sent a messenger to dixie for reinforce mens but before they came the follOw following lag night the Nava joes had lassoed severity seventy horses and about twenty beeves the indians were no now in high spirits after arrived I 1 however 10 wever they became less offensive and some began to trade trad 0 peacefully I 1 A at t th this Is point ade hamblin arrived with about 40 horses when the Nava Joes saw them they be gan to lasso these horses also and finally took look them all most host of the Nava joes cheif left but it was not long before arrived the settlers nett lers were afraid that the indians would attack the fort and were la fit great fear until james andrus arrived tram from dixie with its detachment of men the remaining Nava jooa joes then left for their homes across the river this was uie the last troublesome visit the Nava joea joes paid the settlers of kanab as the following novem I 1 her er the treaty of peace was signed at fort defiance only once after were the people oi of kanab in real danger from a navajo raid this was in 1874 when the three friendly were killed by SI Ne cCarty Carty a non mormon at his ranch on the last east fork there tire are still pioneers alive who remember the navajo of early pioneer days and the alarm their visits to kaneb caused our dusky visitors today are arc r reminders em inders to them 0 of f the former visits of their tribesmen r |