Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30

Utah. There is a written record of the |
attempt @. Father Escalante and q
PARRY of Spanish priests 10 cross Titan
In 1716, coming up from Santa Fe, seek
ing a route to the Spanish mission az
Monterey. These Spanish missionaries
came as far north as Utah lake. and
described the valley in which 1t lies.
The Spanish colonial movement which |
they represented had its local heau.
quarters at Santa Fe. with general
headquarters at the City OF Mexico, and
the missions were established |
through California. and i'm two places
in Utah. We are accustomed to think
OF Spanish missions as clerical head
quarters, but often they We're only
ranches, where struggling settlements
fought for life Such a mission was
located on the flats OF Oakland. ana "
was purchased by Samuel Brannan, q
noted pioneer character. Another such
mission was at Bridger, Utah, where
tho famous tranpeT bought half In
terest from a Mexican who became mas
partner, and IL WAS just such mission
that was established on the Ogden Hats
where the Church authorities found
Miles Goodyear entrenched with land
titles to IA square miles, given him by
the Mexican government
ON BANKS OF JORDAN.
While William II. Simball tells
tale of an old Spanish fort on the banks
OF the Jordan, that a Mexican inter
prefer who claimed To- have been horn
there, declared was destroyed by a
raid of Navajo Indians shortly before
the Mormons arrived this settlement
at Ogden Is the only historically au-
thenticated instance OF the founding OF
a Spanish mission in this valley before
The coming OF the pioneers
EARLY TRAPPERS.
The tlappers who lived in Utah were
more fortunate in Weber county than
else where. In having the names they
placed upon the country, survive Into
the days OF records This was BECAUSE
the couptry became trapped out in the
forties, and the trappci-s went their way
before Fremont came along with his
engineers to tag manufactured names
onto so many localities which had all
ready been inhabited and harmed. 1t
was IN Weber canyon that John We
Der married his Indian wife, and named
her Mary, and In her honor named the
river we now know as the Humboldt.
"Mary's river" And 1t was along this
river that Kit Carson trapped when he
met Jedidiah Smith coming back from
the first trip ever made TO the Pacific
| coast overland by way of the Salt Lake
| route to Los Angeles. map that
| Smith gave to Carson of the southwest
| route was by hin, given TO Peter Skeen
| Ogden, from whom the first Mormon
1 in the initial trip to Los Angeles un-
| dertaleen In the autumn Of ls47.
1 Besides the trappers the Weber coun-
try was Inhabited by Indian bands OF
IL more vigorous type than the Gses
and Pahutes who hung around the jon
dan, digging roots, and spread West
ward towards Tooee county Fottcasts
| from the uintah and Shoshon tribes
FIRST INDIAN WAR
Before Walker and Black Hawk
i came up from the southeast 10 make
| trouble Ia the southern settlements, the
Indians near Ogden made war on the
white invaders In 1850 old Chief Te-
| rikee of the Weber tribe was shot dead
| while driving his ponies out of the corn
| fields belonging to Urban Stewart
| Stewart heard noise In his corn In
| the night and firing towards 1t, killed
Terikee, who had always kept his tribe
on friendly terms with the whites, and
was known far and wide as q good
| Indian"
The act precIpitated the first Indian
war in Utah. Terikee's band and an
other band. camped on the Weber
under Chief Little Soldier rushed upon
Ogden with the purpose OF utterly de-
stroying the little colony. At this time
Weber stake had been organized, with
Lorln Farr as president Farr sent
for help to Gov. Young, while Mr.
| Campbell was killed In the first brush
with the angered Indians Major
! Moore OF the local militia tried to patch
mp a truce. but the Indians detnand-
ed that Stewart be handed over. and
| mis- the whites would not do.
rerikee was ranked by the whites
| with sowelte,l chief of the whole Ute
| nation. who did so much 10 restrain
| the attacks on Provo. planned by
walker, Big Elk, who was iinally KILLED
| In a raid on the southern city, and
| BLACK Hawk, who ranged free In the
south so long before he was finally put
| to route
In the first Indian trouble, Gov.
Young ordered to ogden LEO Salt Lake
horsenen under Gen Horace >, Ed
| redge. This force sent the Terikoe
| hand In a hasty retreat TO the north
ward, Tor II was now not equipped for
war. and consisted OF only 80 braves.
After Following them 10 the Bear lake,
the expedition returned to be called no
more into that section to quell dis
turbances; as the building OF a number
of forts and bis wall kept the In
dians from returning 10 raid the settle-
ment. r,,.y~x,,.,
The Utah settlements outside %
ogden and Salt Lake. began with the
inliux OF immigration, In the fall OF
1sSo mus leaving those two conn
s,1unisIea aE coordinate pioneer To-
HaIIties AS ogden developed Capt
Known and his co-workers Abored Ia
shs nclds Of agricultural industry, or
ranlsing a city moving out OF the
for rsm AMI nsuI Four :" w ssS
These people had TO share with Salt
Lake the troubles Incident To the CONF
inr OF John stems army: In 1857 they
prepared 20 burn their city and go
r,hurct, L6rln FarT led The exodus
in MAY, 1855. and camped his people
IN the bottom lands of tho Provo
river, noar Utah lake In tho IAN
thor city OF Ogden was re.pecpied,
and beRan to grow by absorbing a
share OF the eastern Immigration.
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