Show Manti History Continued from last week When hen they commenced to build the leg fort Brother Parcell moved his cabin and put it in the middle of the fort lie He was a carpenter and had his bench just outside his house When he was settled ho bo nailed called his coffee grinder on to his bench and in morn mornings inS's and even even- evenings lags ings the bhe people could bo ho seen coming from all directions with pans of f wheat to be bo ground for their baking No Ao doubt they gave him some somo toll and his c coffee rree grinder grind grind- er was better cared for than when lie he loaned it around as had been time tho custom in the smaller fort Now in finishing the tho log fort tho the people felt practically safe Tho The two forts could house them But Dut they they had not completed their fortification fortification forti- forti uny any too soon soomi The Tho Indians In- In Indians Indians In In- were now now ow raiding and running running run run- ning oft off stock in all directions A call for tor help was sent out and Col Peter W W. Conover who was in command of the Militia of or Utah county hastily bastil gathered about one onehundred onehundred hundred and fifty men and arrived I at at Payson Jul July 20 Fearing tho the In- In would attack the I settlement ho he called a council of or orI orwar I war and leaving the infantry to guard the time I Payson ayson fort Col Coll ConI Conover Conover Con- Con I over ever and nd Stephen Markham with the calvary started I Continued on Page Pago Four S S- S J c Manti l History Continued from page one for ManU Manti Wm H. H Kimball of Salt Lake City with a hundred mounted men joined Col Conover at Payson Col Conover on reaching Sanpete left some of the men at each settlement to help protect them Col Jabez Nowlin with a detachment came upon a band of f Indians near the Mt 1 Pleasant camp and asked them if they were friends or enemies They told tho the interpreter interpreter inter inter- preter they were and with without without without out waiting for an attack fired tired up- up the whites Nowlin ordered a charge and tine Uhe Indians after the first fire tire broke and fled leaving six or seven of their number dead while whilo none of the tho whites were hurt Soon after tibia this the people of Mt Pleasant being few in number number number num num- ber moved to Spring City for safety safety safe safe- l ty but soon after this the Indians raided that place too and nd drove off all their stock Spring City was attacked August 2nd An express was vas sent to Manti Two riding ponies escaping the Indians had returned to the settlement afford afro affording rd ing them a chance to send the message message for help By taking a route west across the valley thence south tho the messenger eluded the savage scouts who were out watching watching watching watch watch- ing the eastern trail This messenger reached ManU Manti about three o'clock that afternoon When the news was received the alarm was sounded and sentries were posted at various out look points The stock were gathered to together to- to gether for greater protection and preparations were soon soan made to send scud help to Spring City Wagons with oxen to dray them several yokes to each wagon went forward accompanied by twelve mounted men as escorts They reached Spring City about daylight next morning All women wamon and and- children and some of tho the men from that place were brought to ManU Manti Tho The most bodied able-bodied men stayed to harvest hanest their crops I Capt Stevens of ot Salt Lake City i came down doWIl with ti fifty ty men as asa a guard and Spring City and Mt Pleasant secured their harvest At thc the forts torts at ManU Manti they had to be on guard night and day in order to obtain wood or do any other labor outside the tort fort forth all were armed and must go In squads of ten or twelve Some of the themen themen themen men men of a squad would stand while the others worked In tho the last of ot September of IS 1853 3 CoL Markham and this his men had a e l fight tight with Indians near an anti antia i ia a number of Indians were f killed In this fight C. C B B. B Hanco Hancock bk k was wounded i J About this time a small company of the ManU Manti colonists were Wm Win Luke was going to i 1 neet his histo histo histo to Salt SaIt Lake City some City some t b 0 o attend conference and some on business three sons who would arrive In Salt Lake at conference time from their home In England Wm Vm E. E Reid and James Nelson Wm Luke and T Thos hos Clark with two teams started ahead of t the others They Ther reached Uintah Springs near the present town of Ft Green and camped there Early on the tho morning morning morning morn morn- ing of October 1st they were at attacked attacked attacked at- at tacked by the Indians and nd all four men were killed their their bodies so mutilated as to be scarcely When tho rho other eight teams with eighteen men men some women and children came to this place the next day the sorry spectacle of these murdered men among their grain and provisions scattered upon the ground met their eyes The bodie bodies were recovered re rep covered and taken to for burial i iTo ITo To be bo continued |