Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-27
GAVE AN INDIAN DINNER.
II Vas Provided by While Residents
Of ParOWan.
DIsposing of the Rsaidu
Indians TO work-A Pointed Rciort
by mn Indian Chief

Early in the fiiiies the people OF Pato
wan thought it would be well to give
the Pah eed Indians least, hoping thus
to make them more truly our friends.
So Kanarra, their chief was notified and
the time set for an event which TO an
lnciau, always hungry, is of great i'm
nortance and pie asure. On the appoint
ed day a long table made OF rough
boards and trestles was placed near the
public SQUARE and covered with eatables
contributed by the settlers according to
their means. The bill OF tare was not
what would be called first class in Utah
today consisting as it did entirely OF
vegetables prepared in one style or an
other, but TO Indians who lived almost
entirely upon meat the dinner OF vege.
tables was not only very good but
doubly so because il cost them nothing.
In addition 10 the bread some OF our
more wealthy citizens contributed clke.
There being no sugar nearer than Sail
Lake City, this cake was sweetened
with moiasses made by thrifty house
| wives from beets, corn stalks, carrots or
parsnips, and instead OF raisins or cur.
rants had dried service berries scattered
through it.
Probably the Salt Lake City four
hundred would speak slightingly OF such
a cake to-day, but in those days it was
thought hue enough Tor the most
'aristocratic table.
So of bread, crackers, cake, potatoes
ro astei or boiled, squash in every style
| in fact, more squash than anything
else-there was plentiful supply, and
did one good to see how the bucks,
squaws aud pappooses enjoyed 1T AID
their delight was sill greater when tod
they might carry home what was lett.
| They had no YES sells to carry II in but, as
necessity is the mother OF invention, -
| his title difficulty was quickly settled,
and in very original manner Each
buck took off his buckskin eggings,
| tied a string around the bottom euds
and behold sack capable oil holding
nearly half bushell lnlo these sacks
bread, cake, potatoes, exc, were scaped,
and cemented mo concrete mass by
the abundant stewed squash, and way
they marched to their little brush
she ters or wlckiups.
But before leaving, Kanarra made a
speech thanking the people for their
F., feast, whc he said vas "tu-e-je wino'-
very good; said he now knew the Nor
mons were true friends to the poor
Indians, and he and his people would al,
WAYS be true friends to them. He owned
that the Pah-eeds had sometimes
stolen our Gait e, but ii was because they
were very poor and veiy hungry, while
we we're very rich; and they thought thai
il they now and then TOOK call or a
yearling for their hungry wives and
children it would not be missed. He
said three men had killed a two year Ole
colt and had not lett it until they hac
eaten it all But they would not steal
any more but BE- always "tu-e,je Tx a.
boo"-very good. true friends.
President John {. L. smith thought
this fine opportunity to inculC ate
mora ity and industry AMI made them q
speech He told them they should moi
steal or be lazy II they did they
would maxi the Great Spirit very angry
and they would all die OIL until haIdl,
any would be left They should quI
stealing and should work and be like tn,
whites, and instead Of dying of thel
would live and increase and become
numerous and wealthy.
They listened with great attention. ans
we all tn fought President Smi h 5 argu
ment had fully convinced them; Blu
Kanarra, in few words, gave us grea
surprise.
POINTING TO our graveyard winch wa
in plain view not far distant he quietl
asked who lie buried therel All whites
No lndiansl" And this was true: all VIII,
slept in our cemetery were white-not
single Indian among them; and this lac
in the estimation OF the Pah-eeds was
complete reputation to all Pre- ider
Smith had said. never knew so goo
an admonition SO neatly parted and i
so few words; and though we wer
: chagrined or the moment we could nc
but admire the sharp wiz OF the oil
CHI e tain.
, And so they departed to their camps
the squaws carrying their babies ana tn
bucks bearing the iood sacks. stallSin
, along in their airy neglgee costume
But after all, the outcome WAS good an
! proved the wisdom Of President Young
! maxium that ut is better and cheaper /
! feed indians tn IN to fight them" Frol
. that time they stole but lew cattle an
many learned TO work; one becoming
: useful assistant in the black NTH she
6 OF Francis I Whitney and others b
! coming good workmen in the fields ar
canyons and as herdsmen to our stool
]. II. MARTINEAU.