Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24

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valley an addition was made to the
company by the appearance OF
Captain James Brown with his
division oithe Mormon Battalion and
Mississippi Saints who Travelled the
latter part of the journey with them.
There were about 200 in all and they
brought 90 wagons, 100 horses and
mules and 800 oxen. The meeting
between the newcomers and their
friends who had preceded them was
a joyful one. The entrance to the
valley was made like triumphant
march with martial music playing.
The stay OF the Battalion men,
though at first thought to be merely
temporary, proved to be permanent,
since their term OF service had eX-
PRED. They erected a bowery on
the Temple square to be used tor
meetings and soon after joined in
building stockade known later as
the Old Fort, TO protect the people
from savagcs and wild animals and
TO furnish some sort OF shelter in
the log and adobe houses Tor the
Saints during the winter. The Old
Fort from that time on became the
home of the people until it was
deemed safe and expedient for each
family to settle itself on one OF the
lots of land which had previously
been distributed,
The greatest anxiety was felt by
the Saints to get in crops, and they
continued breaking up the land un-
Ill when the last blowing was done
on August 9th, eighty-three acres
had been made ready for planting.
Almost none of the crops planted
matured, however, only few seed
ling potatoes being garnered, and the
Pioneers were compelled to rely
on what provisions they had with
them and what other companies
brought in subsequently.
As August began to draw to a
close President Young and the Apos-
ties with him deemed it advisable to
return to the States to superintend
the emigration of the following
season. After thoroughly organizing
the people who were to remain and
giving them good counsel regarding
the conduct OF their affairs, the
Apostles with large company-in
all one hundred and eight men-set
out for Winter Quarters on August
goth. This was the second company
to leave the valley for the main body
of the Saints, seventy-one men,
mostly members of the Battalion,
having departed under the direction
of Tunis Rappleyee and Shadrach
Roundy just ten days before, One
reason for drawing of SO many men
was that they were needed by their
families at Winter Quarters; another
doubtless, was that their going de
creased considerably the number
among whom the sCanty rations
were to be divided that winter.
The return of the Apostles and
their party was not devoid OF Incl
dent, though no serious accidents
occurred. An exciting attray, though
a bloodless one, between a
thieving band of Sioux took place
during the journey. About two
hundred Indians, restrained from
stampeding the horses, made a
charge on the camp. President
| Woodruff, who was acting as guard,
sounded the alarm and with some
others made daring counter-charge
This disconnected the Indians and
they hastily retreated. They soor
returned, but peaceably this time
and making a proiIer of friendship
invited President Young and tn,
Apostles to their villages some mile
away. Heber {. Kimball anC
others went and smoked the pipe o
peace with the savages. President
Kimball not only secured safety
from further molestations, but alsC
succeeded by his courtesy and kind
ness, in recovering many horses thai
had been stolen from his own an,
other companies.
The policy of treating the Indian
as worthy of being made allies anC
even friends and companions wa
+ followed, not only by President Kim
ball but by the Saints generally
President Brigham Young insiste,
always that the people feed thei
savage neighbors and thus avoic
/ fighting them. He realized that
, would be most imprudcnt to ASSUME
j "a hostile attitude, and the result va
1 that, though some battles were Tough
, when all other means failed TO pre-
: vent the red men from stealing cat
, tie and killing settlers, the Indian
and the Saints were almost Away.
f at peace. The doctrine Of tn
/ Church taught that the Indians haC
r evolved from higher state from
race related to our own. The pur
, pose of the Saints was to turn tn
, tide Of that evolution and give it al
upward course.
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