Show leaves hn OLD K indian war veteran thomas W cropper tells of the past in millard count and of a raid throwing deseret into panic how bloodshed was ATer averted ted indians twitted settlers yon you come on fight we fight lou mow and andi nobody stirred aged man talks interestingly of the past PLAIN conversation NOT WRITING thomas W cropper may 9 1927 continued from last week hot elites to god about bad indians cropek says the indians at kanosh saw a man by the name 0 of hoyt 4 busy night times by the side of his a lamp lamp writing writing writing one of them asked him one day what he r was writing about and hoyt replied halt half in tun fun I 1 in writing to god to kill the bad indians it was taken seriously when long tree came back fiam 1 the where he had been placed for participating cropper says in the ganison massacre he was by then used pretty well to the white man a manner of living and didn dian t take kindly to a return to bis his and their ways so he kept aloof which raised enmity on the part of the indians against him so when the white man hoyt was to be busy every night writ ng the indians got to thinking he was writing god for the death of this undesirable member of the tribe this indian long tree says cropper did actually get sick and die and they said it all right be he die he bad anyway white man write god to kill him it all right chester cheel confirms this tact fact with almost the same detail cropper says kanosh was a sub stant lal friend a nice man well repeated ted by the whites highly influx enolal and a convert to cormor ism cropper says he has heard him speak in the white man mans s church at fillmore Mosho an orator cropper says that Mosho was an orator of high ability cropper and two other men went once with some meat and some flour to pacify the Mosho got up and in fiery oratory told the indians that he would rather his heart were cut out than that he should live to see the white man drive another into the ground which belong ed to the from the time of their forefathers ait when lien cropper and three comrades faced seventy tuo indian right els cropper tells me of the time when he and his comrades com radea faced 72 11 in deans stripped armed and with fac ps rs painted and on the war path fresh from a black hawk raid he ile says ebon morgan and edward arthur were coming down from the north to settle at deseret their train was vas encamped at pack packs a bottom the indians raided them killed their cattle and burned their wagons this only a few miles from deseret he tells it very thrillingly 0 of how they the military ot of the territorial militia took atter after the indiana indians after this escapade he thomas W cropper was first lieu tenant in the militia and now draws a pension ot of 50 00 a month he pulled out bis his wallet and showed me a pension check tor for that amount marked indian war ebon morgan was coming down from tooele thoele to deserret Deser tet just short ly atter after the black hawk war he ile says tant black hawk himself was one 0 of this party ot of seventy two in deans whom they faced as his story will tell the dam was only tour four miles below where morgan was raid ed soon after the raid happened people in deseret saw this big band of indiana indians coming just a sit ashing the white men broke and tied fled across the river at the dam and reported in town an outbreak ot of indians the town was terrorized I 1 was first lieutenant of the ath cavalry Pa livant district forty five men we gathered of the caval ry and infantry and we crossed the river with the fixed determination to tight fight tha the indiana indians when we getup go up to the camp where the whites had tied fled on the approach of the indians we found that they had ailed eight cattle stripped them and flesh was hanging on all the bushes roundabout drying having been cut into strips to make jerked beet beef the indians retired to a good position on our approach easily de and with a fine getaway behind them we went forward toward where the indians had retreated whip and spur out a ways we began to think it over 45 of us against 72 we called a halt and talked it over we then went back there were nearly two tor for one against us findlins have the best of them in the mean time the indians had c circled us and were back behind our position on the river toward deser et we were entrapped and inter cepter by a superior force they were two or three miles below us the camp and town of deseret were in a terrible frenzy of excite ment all the available men of both camp and town were out with our force the town was drained of its ablest fighters and the women and children were left practically aly defence less with the indians con confronting frontin 9 them between their own men and the town expecting a massacre at any moment and with a terror stricken group of newly arrived refu gees goes who had lost their all in the raid tor for the tire fire was now seen of the burning effects gotten by the in deans in their raid after looting what they wanted the panic of the refugees was spread to the inhabit tants it certainly looked black A pony express rider was sent for ward to reconnoiter what he re ported was a superior force of in deans well entrenched sitting in 3 rows rifles across their knees with a tine fine place tor for retreat behind them in case of need and most excellently situated for either a standing fight to the end or a drawing on running skirmish and from their command ing position able to repulse our at tack this report fanned the frenzy into flames the people small group faces danger alone nathan pierce isaac pierce thos W cropper and lee R cropper were chosen as a committee to go to these entrenched indians and corn com promise so we started out nathan pierce was our leader we rode toward the entrenched reds pierce was a tine fine interpreter and could talk indian well he signalled signal led peace and waved his hands and talked to them from a great distance te to ling them that we tour four wro on a friendly mission the indians sig nailed him not to approach it was a ticklish situa tion tor for us fellows pierce persisted to step forward we gently followed a step at a time pierce kept on talking to them he encouraged us by saying As long as they are talking back you have no danger but if they shut up LOOK OUT we re in tor for it then he added sinking every man s cour age to his boots however pierce the captain con linued talking and advancing slow ly a shuffling move forward at a time they repeatedly told us not to come forward any closer not withstanding pierce wormed his way closer and closer still talking and walking my flesh crept and crawled it the others were ere as scared seared as I 1 was then we were a scared lot but there was nothing else to do it was too late to make a break and run tor for it at any time those 72 rifles could have spoken and wiped all tour four ot of us oft off i we simply had to brave it uoti he told the indians that we four had come as their friends to brindl bring them beet beef and flour to this the in deans replied with vigor there as beef in the white man mans s herds to anica they could and would help themselves had lad already done so back a few miles and as to flour they t want our flour but they did want us to fight pierce then replied that the mor mons were bigger and stronger and their bullets would kill any indian but the bullet from the indian would only wound a mormon who mho could then kill his indian assailant assi ilant and still he pressed forward ever so little I 1 sweat icicles still I 1 couldn coulden t run chief arises STOP I 1 finally there waa was a movement a chief arose and in a threatening manner told us no come closer we kill and you bet we halted there was no further attempt to worm in any closer we had reached our limit I 1 expected to be killed we ue were not then over fifty yards from them we four against SEVENTY TW TAO 0 hostiles host lles fully armed among them was chief black hawk himself all had guns and had bows and arrows besides with full quivers on their backs in complete readiness to give us a warm reception at the first signal it took nerve to remain we were chere were three rows of them the place they had chosen was a dandy spot tor for battle good defense and just enough cover behind them to cover a retreat had they needed one they expected when choosing this stand that more would come out against them for there was no need of a retreat after giving us one volley we would have been wiped clean off at the first tire fire we put down what beet beef and flour we had with us and asked for a par ley saying we didn dian t want to tight fight them but came tor for peace I 1 used to be quite a and could throw my man pretty well I 1 saw an indian I 1 knew in the band that I 1 had wrestled with and I 1 said I 1 you come on he replied I 1 not you now I 1 tight fight yon now YOU come on to be continued next week NOTES ON TRIP GATHERING FOSSILS six days in field with smithsonian Smiths onlan paita RAPIDLY COVER FOSSIL AREA ARFA last thursday dr charles E D res iles ser expert on cambrian ogy agy of the united states national museum of the smithsonian Smiths onlan ansti aution left delta on a rapid scouting trip to each important small fossil area in millard county As his spec lal guest doctor rinji endo ceolo gist of the imperial japanese rail way company of south manchuria accompanied dr resser frank beckwith senior piloted them to the fields doctor endo has been in the united states a year and two months during his sojourn with us he has visited yosemite national park on one coast then niagara falls and a guest of the united states national museum in wash ington for study in their immense collections he lie will accompany dr resser rosser to zion Nat nathinal linal park thence to boce canyon then visit the yel low stone national park and travel by auto across our continent visit ing the principal geologic points of interest en route and the big cities and later embark for london vien na berlin and visit the famous berrande bercande Ber rande museum prague czecho slovakia for study purposes and then complete his world tour corn com plemely circling the globe dr resser is specializing in mid die cambrian fauna very good spec amens of which are found at antel ope springs in the house range he is working on a monograph with dr roberts on the Agnost idae tri trl lokites which may be completed in the next three of tour four years as the two collaborators expect it will be a labor of about eight years in all visit antelope springs first day on the first day out the party went to antelope springs where al gae threads a very primitive form of ancient fossil remains two kinds were found tiny and the larger branching ones what la Is called cone in n cone a form of interesting push ing crystallization but not a fossil ot of a former living form as are the others which again Is not a S fossil As to the fossils bracho pods three species some very nicely weathered out specimens of Ei El rathia king kingi meek and two species of ag costus we did not visit the Ne olenus bed nor hunt in the high strata tor for or ria delegans on the second day at antelope they found of sponges nees tiny rare and interesting specimens were tal en by both geologists ts also they encountered many good forms ot of fossil sea weed it is in this region mr beckwith saw the first rattlesnake ot of the season both men alen know harry A crane s brother famous ivorid traveler Tia veler it Is rather a strange coincidence that as we were sitting by the fire after supper the conversation came around to will E crane dr res ser knows mr crane very well and mr crane only a few weeks ago in voted him and dr endo to his home and entertained them will E crane a brother Is harry A crane a farmer just on the edge of delta now if that isn t a strange colaci dence manchuria china washing ton D C meet and talk about a man I 1 had had correspondence with and knew bis his brother will E crane haa has been around the world eight times we find out about our home people from strangers dr hesser rosser found tor for me and pre dented me with it a small specimen of the first I 1 had ever seen in the flicker of the camp tire fire a bird called which dr endo dimmed lately said was no very distant in of the whip poor will of japan noted for its plaintive call life back COO lears ago we are constantly forced to rear range our ideas of the age of the earth dr resser rosser gives me sion to quote him that scientists are today pretty well agreed and united on assigning a date of SIX HUN DRED MILLION 60 0 years ago for the middle cambrian geologic era we used to reluctantly feel that we were forced to accede hundreds of thousands when a date of 4 P B C nailed riveted and bound mens thoughts to that limit then with caution it got up to a few mil lion with almost desperation it wa said that the middle cambrian era erl might possibly be thiry million years ago but today with the study of physic physicists lets on the breaking down of radium into lead they felt no hesi host tancy in multiplying that by TEN and latterly even to multiplying it by TWENTY forty five miles from delta puts us back six hundred million years what a leap I 1 4 gather fossils in confusion range saturday we went to ibex to jak jaek ja k U watsons atson a I 1 fed jennie the 38 year old mule mille with potato peelings and got her deft thanks internally rum bled like the of the well fed att that is the location of one of the ordovician fields there we found palomera omera trilobites bites Camaro cladia a rare species of ancient sponge ortell and alector this pods but on this hurried trip no those are dallan dalian to twist the ton gue but latin Is the standardized scientific vocabulary and here was a learned savant whose native ton gue was Ja talking in per feet familiarity these same terms understood alike in america ger many sweden russia and even in manchuria latin la is universal un der stood by scientific men the world over to visit costal peak sunday we went to crystal peak sometimes called I 1 itha the white cone this Is a volcanic dyke up thrown between lime mountains beautifully white hard with tiny black birder material in it and so strikingly uncommon as to hold one in awe contemplating the gigantic scale of nature and then giving full admiration for the novelty of it it stands out like a sore thumb at a p party a arty and just as noticeable we saw a badger lumbering away in awkwardness the first wild one doctor endo had seen in the fossil field there at crys tal peak we found ordovician ma aerial tube shaped mas sive branched a good specimen of a tall of the bite called palomera omera a possible Bath subject to correction by study and doctor resser found a which is the technical name tor for the upper lip of a trilobite the animal fed on soft food he had no teeth and carded and shred ed pd the soft carcass of his prey tor for he was a scavenger until he could slip the soft worked up mush like food into his mouth and this up per lip caught it like a flap on a sack to aid loading it full I 1 would have been willing to have stripped a gear to have found the dad burned thing we pulled out and chug chugged up the valley valley a bottom ot of old lake tow ard the south end of it where Is wih wah wah springs have to ask my indian friend what rah wah means I 1 don t know As we jolted along a beautiful body ot of water formed right ahead of us aa as we drove toward it expecting to drive into it it retreated glanc ing back there was a great shim mering lake behind us with trees on the distant shore other legeta tion dotting its edges and the act actual reflection of the mountains in that bright clean fresh water it would certainly tool fool one the alkali flat was as dry as pro hibi tion aint and the mirage was seemingly as wet as we went over to burbank where they staged many scenes of 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