J. Higbee the Indians r continually unfriendly killing our cattle & stealing horses we have lost between 50, 60 head. they cannot sustain themselves there. we drive our cattle down in the morning & bring them up at night. The Indians fired their guns at our boys & they found one [illeg] with 4 arrows another with a tomahawk in it they say the Mormons are no [illeg] they want to fight & will live on our cattle they say they mean to keep our cattle & got & get the other Indians to kill us. PPP my own mind is I can only see 3 ways. the idea is abandoned & then they wd. ransack all the [illeg]. or we are to defend them or leave them to destruction J. Higbee we cannot defend our cattle unless there is a company of men there are 25 close by & 50 or 75 on the other side of the Lake PPP I felt it best to kill the Indians but when I saw the [illeg] kill you can ge instructions J. Higbee every man & hold up their hands to kill them off we have 60 men to bear arms they say we r afraid to kill them PPP ....there can be no communication without a settlement at Utah. . . my voice is for war, exctirminate them BY I say go & kill them. (all hands held up) Young, Kimball, Richards, Smith, [illeg] J. Young. . . D.H. Wells...Loren A. Farr