The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-10
UTAH INDIANS REnIxIscEKcE

Herald, writing from Heber City,
Utah, August 3Oth, gives the present
whereabouts of many of the leading
Indians Chiefs of that Territory.
We quote:
Turs si-guv its, the Pah- ute chief. is
dead, and his people are on the am
page. kano>h, the Pah-van chief,
with ten lodges, is in the vicinity of
the city bearing his name. John Scar
rah, Long Tom and three others. for
.nerIy with kano>h, have gone To
WaShakie. Paii re -shontS, of the re-
gion of Beaver. is or ought 10 he, dead;
bat l fear he is not.
We had the ~displeasure of a some
what intimate acquaintance with the
two first and the last chief named,
in the Fall of 1857. Tuts-si-guv its
was the head ruler of the Piutes
south of the rim of the great Interior
Basin, commencing at Mountain
Meadow and extending to the Col
orado and Mohave rivers. In this
territory are several bands or tribes
of Piutes, each band having Il chief
of its own, but all being subject to
the sway of the head chief. Tuts-si-
guv-lts was a large, portly, benevo-
lent looking old Indian, slow but
eloquent in speech, and very digni-
tied. He was a Mormon, had several
wives, and resided on the Rio Virgen,
near st. George. His timely arrival
at our camp on the Santa Clara river,
one dark night in November, 1857,
saved our little party of five from
massacre by over 80 Of the Santa
Clara tribe, under their black, ath-
letic, six-footer chief, Jackson.
kanosh, chief Of the Pah-vans or
Parovans, was o Mormon Elder, and
lived with his tribe of 26O warriors
on Corn Greek. II miles from Fill
more city. He was a handsome and
intelligent Indian, always dressed in
the hight of fashion ; an absolute
EULER ; a devout Christian and a
blood-thirsty savage by turns. His
tribe was the most active and war
like Indians in Utah, but devoted
most of their time to stock raising
and farming, after they had settled
their eight-years war with the Nor
mons. The next in command was
kanosh's brother Shot, who had re-
ceived no less than eleven wounds
in the Mormon war. He killed two
of our party IA young Virginian and
an Irishman) about fifty yards from
the Capitol building in Fillmore
City. The unfortunate men had
gone on q day or two ahead of
the party on horseback, thinking
their lives secure while in the
Mormon settlements. Reaching
Fillmore, and learning the facts
of their murder, we sent for Ka-
nosh, showed him u passports
from Brigham Young, and made ar
engagements with him to accompany
Is two days to Beaver, paying him
S25 per day. On leaving his tribe
to meet us at Fillmore, he left Shot
in command, with instructions to
kill US if We attempted to pass be-
fore he returned. Next morning we
started, in company with Kanosh,
who was on horseback-we having
light spring wagons and four-mule
teams. Four miles short of Corn
Greek We discovered mounted In
dams darting from copse to copse of
willows ON the creek, all nearing
the road. Karo-h concealed him
self from their view by riding on the
opposite side Of a wagon. The creek
runs down to within 800 yards of the
road, then turns southwark and
runs parallel for two or three hun
bred yards and sinks, q jungle Of
willows following its banks. When
opposite the bend of the creek, about
l25 warriors on foot darted out from
the brush and started on the double