Letter to George Albert Smith, 11 March 1859
G. S. L. City, .
Brother G. A Smith.
Dear Sir—As brother Bigler is about to return
home, I feel to write a few lines, and give what news we have.
I call upon the President daily. We have no Eastern mail yet.
We were quite interested in Cradlebaugh's charge to the Grand Jury,
and in his bodyguard, but I think he has done like Sinclair, shot
his biggest gun first. The Indian that went after the nine
horses stolen at Grantsville, has returned with two of them, the others
were killed. He says he travelled 200 miles, got to camp, told
his business, and they said they would kill him for being a traitor.
They brought up three horses left, and then shot down a stud be-
longing to bishop Clark, and dried the meat, & tied the other two up. In the
night the Indian crawled out, took the two horses which were left, fled
for Grantsville and got in safe. He was followed by a band
who went to Stansbury's Island, took all of brother Kimball's herd, some
170, with his wildcat stud, and tried to drive them to the main land,
on the west side of the island. When they were belly deep in
water, they stampeded, went back to the island, fled into the
mountains, and the Indians got none of them. There is now
a guard there.
(Private. When Dr. Forney's interpreter, Jebow, talked
with the Indians at Grantsville, he told them they must not
steal any horses or mules with U. S. on them, and that if they
did the soldiers would follow them and kill them. He conveyed
the idea that they must steal Mormon animals, if any. That
