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Show Bullet of Spanish Fork Malitiaman Aided In Downfall of Black Hawk According to information gathered gather-ed here by Mrs. J. A. Bielke Captain Cap-tain of the lecal D. U. P, the expert ex-pert marksmanship of an unsung: militiaman from Spanish Fork had much to do with the termination) of Black Hawk's depredations and the conclusion of the historic war named after him. What did more than any one thing to end the Black Hawk War happened this way," Captain Bjelke relates. "Colonel Greer and his Spanish Fork miliUa pursued he wiley chief and his Braves up the Spanish Fork canyon. They caught up with the enemy and a battle ensued. , . ,. o "This has fince oeen w Fight on the Diamond.' Black Hawk during the course of the batt e, appeared ap-peared on 'High Point' and clapped his hands together to show his contempt fcr the soldiers, and also no doubt to instill confidence in Ms followers by showing them how ineffectual in-effectual were the bullets of the white men. A soldier with a field glass this bit of bv-play and transmitted the news to a' sharpshooter who was equipped with a Yoger rifle, perhaps the most high-powered gunl tf that time. "The sharpshooter took direful aim and pulled trigger. Blacic Hawk was seen to stagger and then topple over. He had received a pelvic pel-vic wound from which he never did recover. He could not ride a horse for several years after this encounter, en-counter, except by sitting sidewise, and this was the beginning cf thc-end thc-end of the Black Hawk war." When the warlike chief later appeared ap-peared at Ephraim for a peace pow-wow with the whites, he was -thin and pale, a sad and dejected man. He looked mere like a skel-c'-on compared with his looks " at the Ephraim massacre, October 17, 1865." Before making peace with tne whites. Black Hawk had his hair cut short, which act coming from an Indian was said to be a sign of subjection and humiliation j When he finally came to the Bishop Seelev home in Mt. Pleasant to sign the treaty, his wound received ' at "The Fight on the Diamond" i still bothered him so much that he j had to be assisted in alighting off his horse, according to the late Joseph Burton of this place, who was one of the Black Hawk war veterans. When Black Hawk was no longer able to carry on, Chief White Horse ro Shinavegin tosk his place. This aroused the jealousy of Black Hawk's brother Unk-Um-Bi-Yweri wich, a name which means "diminutive "dimin-utive dwarf." Unlike Black Hawk, who was tall and stately, this brother bro-ther was only a little over five feet tall, and black as the proverbial ace of spades. But despite his stature sta-ture or lack of it he felt that he should succeed the famous K.lark Hawk, after the Spanish Fork militiaman's bullet finally proved to be the latter's undoing. |