Show san juan utah by albert R lyman not all the hostile bands head i jed ed for montezuma in the night time passed by on the hill labo above e ais as the white river warriors had done neither did the little hamlet put its t anrce irce aja mar garrison ready to shoot it out to the death with any attacker once when the startling news came that angry natives were plot plotting cing to come upon them in the night they figured that resistance si stance would mean sure death to them even though they might make a big kill among their murderers un on the other hand they might placate these w ald ld men and thus survive and that seemed to be their only chance of surviving therefore as the dread darkness settled around them they waited with prayers and hope and fears ears and when they knew the indians were coming near they invited them into the house spoke to them in friendly tones and gave them such food as they had to give it was like the gentle rays of the sun on t frozen froze n ban bank k it thawed them out this was the kind of military tary tactics by which jacob hamblin had outmaneuvered out maneuvered a big hogon full of navajos cavajos that stood itching to skin him alive it I 1 saved the little group at mon azuma it was yet to save larger groups from similar perils in this wild san juan these two families milies la ia had still another enemy the proverbial wolf at the door the company of pioneers due to join them hem in november did not arrive and it upset their schedule of supply they saw famine staring them in the face killing one of their cows they ate beef until it became nauseating they had a little wheat which they ground in a coffee mill and about the time that was gone old brother dunton said he would leave them it was hard enough for them to make a life of it without feeding him when he went to clean out his W wagon 7 n preparatory to leaving he lound a little bag of wheat and left it with them they used it sparingly grinding it in their mill lewellin harris an ole old indian missionary came and stayed with them three days when he ha had gone davis asked his wife where she got the bread to feed him and she answered she was still getting it from the little bag davis afi firmed that he went and hefted the bag and found it as heavy as it was at first it lasted till relief reached them word became circulated in the north that the little company had been massacred by the indians and the church authorities sent thales haskel from his post among the indians in arizona to see if it were true haskel came at once and approaching pro aching the place with fear of what he was going to find he discerned discern sd a smoke curling up f from M th the e chimneys of the cabins and said thank god whether it was at that time or later haskel answered a call to settle at montezuma and later lacer at bluff and he became one of the most useful men in the mission because of his knowledge of the indians the visit of the four scouts about the end of the year relieved the monotony of their wait a little but after they had haa gone crone accompanied by the two prospectors mitchell and myric word came back that the two prospectors had been killed in the reservation by the indians a dreary piece of news to contemplate in their helplessness then when spring approached and they knew the long delayed compa company riv of pioneers was headed towards them on the river below the company for whon whom they had been waiting in anguish of lon lowliness liness and peril these many intense months behold the company decided not to come to them atall but stop fifteen or more miles away it I 1 was a bitter disappointment ut not as bitter as others to low |