The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-24

hand and crooked his little finger in
significant manner to one Barney Carter
his brOther-in-lAW, and one OF the "Angel
OF Death Carter without RhOthei
word walked out and went to I.aney
house with a picket in his hand and callet
Laney out and struck him heavy blow
on the head, iracturing his skull, and lei
him on the ground for dead. Cy. Webb
and Isaac Newman, President OF the High
Council, both told me they saw Dame,
manouvres. James McGufen was ther
President Of Parowan, but through op
Ipression had been forced to leave there
and is now n merchant in Rahranngu
Valley, near Phoebe, Nevada, and know,
these facts. About the last OF AuRus.
1857, some ten days before the Mountain
Meadows massacre n company Of emf
grants passed through Cedar City. Geo
a. Smith, then First Counsellor in the
Church and Brigham Youngs right hand
man, came down from Salt Lake City,
preaching TO different settlements. / ut
this time was IN Washington county, near
where Saint George now stands. He
sent for me. / went to him md he
asked me to take him to Cedar
City, by way Of Fort Clara and Pinto
settlements, as he had business and must
visit all the settlements. We started on
the tour. Away up through the canyon
we saw herds Of Indians, and he Geo. A.
Smith remarked to me that these Indians.
with the advantage they had OF the rocks,
could use up large company Of emf.
grants or make it hot ior them. After
pausing for short time, he said to me,
Brother Lee, what do you think the
brethren would do il company OF emf
grants should come down through here
makiug threats, don't you think they
would pitch into them? replied that
they certainly would. This seemed to
please him, and he again said to ME: and
you really think the brethren would pitch
into them certainly do, was my reply,
and you had better instruct Col. Dame
and Haight to tend to it so that the emf.
grants are permitted to pass, il you want
them TO pass unmolested, he continued.
| asked Isaac, meaning Haight, the same
question, and he answered me Just as you
do, and | expected the boys would pitch
into them. again said to him that he
had better say TO Governor Young that
il he wants the emigrant company to
pass without molestation he must
instruct Col. Dame or Major Hairht
to that effect, for II they are not ordered
otherwise they will use them up by the
help Of the Indians. lie told the people
| az tho IIara mt "a .n1l r,..,,, o., H., -.
grants nor to feed their animals, as they
might expect n iightnext spring with the
United States President Young did not
intend TO let the troops into the territory.
He said: I'VE are going to stand mp for
our rights and will no longer be imposed
upon by our enemies, and ! want every
man TO be on hand with his gun in good
order and his powder dry" and instructed
the people to part with nothing that
would sustain life. From the first to the
tenth OF Sept, 1857, messenger came to
him; his name was Sam. Wood, and told
me that President Isaac c. Haighl
wanted me TO be at Cedar City that even.
ing without fail. This was Saturday that
he told me that large company oi emi.
grants had gone south. then lived at
Harmony, twenty miles south oi Cedar
City. ! obeyed hia summons, and presi-
dent Haight met met was near sun.
down, and We spent the night in an open
house on some blankets, where we talked
most of riie hight. lie told me that Il
company oi euigrants had passed
through some two DAYS before, threaten.
ing the MormRns with destruction, and
that one OF them had said he had helped
to kill old Joe. Smith and his brother
Hiram; that the other members Of the
company had helped to drive the Nor
mons out OF Missouri; that Others had
said they had come to help Johnson 3
army to clear the Mormons out OF Utah;
that they had the halters ready to hang
old Brigham and Heber and would have
them strung mp before seven o'clock; that
one OF the emigrants called one OF his
oxen Ia pair OF stags) "Bragn and the
other "Heber," and that several of the
emigrSnts had used all kinds OF threats
and profanity. John NJ. Higbie, City
Marshal had informed them 1t was a
breach OF the city ordinance to use pro.
fame language, whereupon one OF them
replied that he did not care damn ior
Mormon laws or the Mormons either;
that they had fought their way through
the Indians and would do it through the
damned Mormons, and if their God, old
Brigham, and his priests would not sell
them provisions, by God, they would take
what they wanted any way they could
get it; that thus raging one OF them let
loose his long whip and killed two
chickens and threw them into his wagon,
that widow Evans said, gentlemen, these
are my chickens, please don't kill them, ]
am poor widow; that they ordered her
TO shut up, or they would blow her id
brains out, etc; that they had been rails
ing trouble with all the settlers and In.
dians on their way; that we we're threat
, ened on the north by Johnsons army
that now our safety depended on prompt
and immediate action; that the company
OF Indians had already gone south iron
ParoWau and Cedar City to surprise the
emigrants who were then q. the Noun
tain Meadows, and he wanted me to re-
turn in the morning, Sunday, and SEND
Carl Shurtz, the Indian interpreter, from
my home, Harmony, to raise the indians
south, at Harmony, Warrington and
Santa Clara, to JOIN the Indians from
the north and make the attack upon the
emigrants at the Meadows. | said to
him, would it not be better to hold
u council OF the brethren before
making a move. He replied thai
every true Latter Day Saint that regard.
ed their covenant knew well their duty,
and that the company OF emigrants had
forfeited their lives by their acts; thai
Bishop 2. X. Smith, Kiymer Smith and
Joel White had already gone by way Of
Pinto to raise the Indians in that dircC.
ton, and those that have gone from Par,
owan and here will make an attack and
may be repulsed. We can not now delay
for conncil Of the brethren. Return
Immediately and start Carl Schurtz. Tel
him that | ordered you to tell him to go
and want you to Try and get there be-
fore the attack is made, and make plau
for the Indians. ! will send johnson
the interpreter, to the Meadows as soou
as he can be got, to help Carl Schurts to
manage the Indians.
/ did Just as was ordered. The
Indians from the North and about Har.
muny had already for the Meadows
before reached home, SchurtZ started