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The following is an extract from a letter
under heading and date as follows

Office of Supt of Indian Affairs
G.S.L. City U.T.
Jany 6th 1858

Hon. James W. Denver,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington City, D.C.

Sir:-

On or about the middle
of last September a company of emigrants
travelling the southern route to California
poisoned the meat of an ox that died and
gave it to the Indians to eat causing the
immediate death of four of their tribe and
poisoning several others. This company
also poisoned the water where they were en-
camped. This occurred at Corn Creek
fifteen miles south of Fillmore City. This
conduct so enraged the Indians that they
immediately took measures for revenge. I
quote from a letter written to me by John
D Lee Farmer to the Indians in Iron
and Washington Counties. "About the 22nd
of Sept Capt Fauchers & Co fell victims
to the Indians wrath near Mountains
Meadows: their cattle and horses were
shot down in every direction their wagons
and property mostly committed to the