The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-31
ABOUT BLACK HAWK

The old sinner who made scores of
Mormon graves was black, raihcr than
. coppcr-colorcd. He had hard. cruel
mouth. the upper lip ot which was par
tially covered with scantv growth of
black brjslIcS. called II mustachc. In
: stature Black Hawk WAS about > f"ct
: inches. and rs 1.-the as a panther, lis
entire career proved thaL he was a
bad iniun. And thai hc died Il
natural doaih was owing 10 the policy
Of President Young, who always rs.
serted that - it is cheaper 10 feed than
To fight The Indians There wore
scores of men IN southern Utah who
fCIrcG the willy old chief 10 thc happy
hunting grounds, and would have done
so had IT, moi been for tho influence Of
President NOun@ over the saints.
In those early days Slnpctc. Sewer.
PiUtc aud Aiillard counties comprised
the especial foragiug ground Of Chief
Black Hawk. Pluto county was easily
entered bv way Of tho east fork of the
Sewer river, and hy which Black Hawk
and his banJ could retreat TO his favor
| lie d"msln in Wayne county. Salina
canyon, Immediately southeast of that
now prosperous town. furnished easy
| entrance into, and easy exit from, the
| lover portion of Sewer valley. And
from Sewer valley it was practically
an open country by way of Round Val
! ley pass into tho northern portion Of
/ Mjilard county.
! Farming for home consumption was
| the limit of agriculture, The principal
| industry was cattle and horse raising.
which was Immensely profitable ON the
! lhcu virgin summer and winter ranges.
/ And If lhc names of those carly-day
cattle thieves could bc published in
this letter, some of us would bc making
explanations 10 the effect that We wcrc
driven TO ii rs q measure of sclf-pro-
lection against the other thieves. And
if his history rs n "mavcrick' - rustlcr
were written on the forehead of one of
the present time 'prophctS,' he would
wear his hat we'll down toward his eyes.
lust another spell of wandering, that 5
all
Along in the late sos Black Hawk
and n few of his band ambushed and
murdered Josiah Cal! and Samuel Brown
of Fillmore. The locality was some
stallion on thc San Pedro. Call and
Brown had been TO Salt Lake with cat
tie and were returning with the pro.
cccdS of the sale. Thus ii Will he seen
that Black Hawk was something of 4
ho!dup rs well as a raider And for
that dastardly crime the outlaw rcd
skin was soundly hated by the Fill.
HpTPJnS.
Fillmore, the tcrrrtorial capital at
that time. had been settled by fam- |
lies from the New England and South |
crn states. and were Injured 10 frontier !
life. Such familiar names rs King, |
Robinson, Fclshaw. Holbrook, Mcbride, |
Warner. Bartholomew. Ray. Croppcr
Iawlcy and others represented strong, |
virilc men, And the women were not |
lacking in those sterling qualities which |
hclolnes possess. The foregoing tribute |
Is the more gladly given because it
may he the last which The writer will !
be able 10 publicly render TO them and |
their descendants
Early in the spring Of 1866 Black !
Hawk and some of his thieving band |
emerged from his retreat in Wavnc |,
county and drove fhc( settlers from
tnclcyille and the isolated ranches |
of l'iutc county. Tho only settlers who !
held thclr own against the redskins
were the residents Of MarysvaIc. A few
Vcninrcsomc men from Montana and |
other Western mining camps had been
attracted to the Vale by discoveries
of silver. lead and gold bearing ores.
Among those fronticrsmen were James
STARK, Jared Taylor. Miles Durkee. a
evil war veteran, aud number of |
others whose names cannot. for The mo-
mcnt, be recalled. The abundance Of
meadow land. water. timber and scenery
induced those hardy men 10 secure land
Tor future ranching. After Il LIGHT
brush or two with that small COLONY.
Black Hawk gave them the go bv.i'
Excepting Richfeld. all the settlements
IN Sewer valley were abandoned
Sewer and Sanuctc counties were
largely settled by the sons and daugh,
icrS Of Scandinavia, and they, foo were
strong and virile representatives of
their race. But they were not from.
ticrsmen and women, And 10 thc cmi.
grants from Europe, there is so much
IN ih" history OF the rcdmcn that is
so cruel. ircachcrous mad bloodthirstv
that the sight Of i band Of those paint
cd, Yejlng wild men Of thc West gen
orally prccipiiatcd 4 panic among the
d'sccndauts OF nationS that. from time
Immcmorial, nave been celebrated for
!LciT ind0miiah!c courage
Black liawl, s last raid was made
from WAYNE county via Salina canyon.
in the northern part Of Sewer
county. Between Salina and The can.
vun, some Two miles distant, IS "A pronp
OF low hills which form i broken bar
ri"r 20 the mouth Of the canyon. The
topography Of the locality should be re.
bccaus" before This narrative
- completed the reader will he in
formed of some amusing slightly bIondv
|
pred ON that really historic ground.
june II. 1856.
The irst sign OF rcS,Icssucss on the
part OF tie REDS WAS the stealing of
4 number ~ rlrb COWS that wcrc
grazing near thc hills south of town.
One indian might nave been the az.
nrcss0r. but he was just as safe Is
though there had been Il thousand He
was entirely safe. because those Sean.
settlers were in tEc dark rs
Io the actual nuTibcr engaged i'm the
raid. They accepted the situation i'm u
snirit. and cD,ufor:cd
themselves and families by the Thought
hal ,he yeay!ing hcifcf. of that spring :
N9nld very likely become caws n;. the !
following Sp;iHg.
Occasionally larger bands of reds
emerged from the canyon. aud after
gathering rp Il few more cattle. orc or I
TWO Of the moro humorous OF the In. J
iIanN would mount one Of the nearby
knobs. aud iu Il miXturc Of Indian and ,
western English Invite :hc settlers 10 j
'etakc the stolen cows Under all the :
circumstances II is hardl. uccoss:.r,