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James R. Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, Vol. 2, p. 132-133

....On the 9th of November, the Indians burned six houses at Summit Creek; and on the 23rd of November, news arrived of their having burned a saw-mill near Manti; and on the 6th of January the place called Allred's Settlement, which was evacuated last summer, was burnt to the ground.

On the 26th day of February, about eighty head of cattle were driven from Spanish Fork and Springville settlements.

These are the last depredations that we have heard of being committed.And we now say, that every solitary instance of Indian hostility and depredation has been committed through neglect, disobedience of orders, carelessness, or disregarding the counsel which has been given from time to time. Brethren, when will you be wise, and follow in the precepts of wisdom? Must you first be destroyed and wasted away like unto the Nephites, or will you hearken unto counsel in time to save yourselves and your families, your flocks and your herds from destruction?

Having received advice that Indian Walker was friendly disposed, and wished to make peace, Major Bedell, Indian Agent for this Territory, and Interpreter Huntington, accordingly went to Fillmore, the place fixed by him and his band to meet them, and concluded a treaty of peace. But let no person presume thereby to fall asleep, lulled into a false security, to be awoke only by the war-whoop of the merciless savage.

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