Show M. M any Oolite I I In Monument l MonumentA r vas A vasA I A piece of or oolite stone taken from the ManU Manti I Temple Hill Ull was sent by R. R E E. E Lee Kenner to hl hid i son sou Robert Lee at Preston Idaho where it was built In as part of or a monument for the pioneers of ot that district x Mr Ienner Kenner reporting for or the Canfield paper of Logan has this to sn say of the tile marker celebration celebration celebration tion The spirit of oC fellowship and brotherhood od prevailed as Indian Boy Scouts exchanged friendly handclasps with White White hite Eagle Scouts at the Battle Dattle Creek celebration tion lion held here Monday on the Very ory grounds where th their lr fathers fought for supremacy seventy years CarB ago It is IR estimated that from six aix to eight thousand people from fron all sections of southern Idaho and northern Utah attended the tho celo- celo bration Notwithstanding tho the heator heat lof of or the tho afternoon was almost uit only two persons were wera overcome Music 1 for the tho celebration was rendered by the Preston L. L D D. D S. S band baud the tho Preston Glee Gleo Club and tho the Imperial Glee Olee Club of Logan Many Speakers ra Participate Dr Howard R R. R Driggs Drigge of Now York University and formerly of the tho University of Utah president ortho of or the tho Oregon Trail association traced traced traced trac trac- ed the causes of tho the Battle Creek engagement He lie urged JarI I present day Jar pessimists to to adopt the tho courageous outlook of their pioneer fathers He urged that the American attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude supersede tho the sectional or state tate In planning and I t pioneer trails and landmarks John 0 0 D. Giles secretary of tho the Utah Landmarks association presided The Tho monument is six feet square at tho b base e and stands ton ten feet foot high The main shaft is composed of four hundred rockS gathered from all a parts marts arts of the tho west On tho the top of the tho Is a minature Indian tepee On tho the east side of the tho main shaft Is a bronzo bronze marker c contributed by bythe bythe bythe the Utah Landmarks association which reads Tho liTho Battle of Boar Dear River was fought In this vicinity January 28 1869 Colonel E E. E P P. Connor leading three hundred volunteers vol vol- from Camp Douglas Utah against and Shoshone Indians guilty of hostile attacks jn ii emigrants and settlers engaged five o hundred Indians of whom two hundred fifty to three hundred were killed or Incapacitated in In- In ng about ninety combatant women and children Fourteen soldiers were killed four officers and nine forty-nine men wounded of or one ono officer and seven seen mon men died later Seventy nine men mon vero severely o frozen Chiefs Dear Boar Hunter Banter witCh Sag and aud Lehi Lehl were killed Ono One hundred seventy five horses and much stolen property were recovered Sorority Seventy lodges were burned |