ensued when a Paiute man began beating his wife over a transaction and tried taking it into Ivie's home. This dispute resulted in Ivie killing one of the men present, a relative of Wakara’s named Shower-O-Cats. Indian tradition called for Ivie's death, which began a series of skirmishes and confrontations known as Wakara's War, or The Walker War. During the War The Walker War is not necessarily considered a war, rather it is more considered a series of raid attempts of the Utes on the settlers. These raids led the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to come back at the Utes with force as well. However, that was not the original intent of the religious settlers. Their original intent was to use a plan to defend themselves and attempt to improve their relations with the Utes. Towards the end of July 1853, a man named General Wells, from Salt Lake City, commanded a number of troops to go and attempt to stop the Utes, who they believed were marching to attack a town of members of the Church of Jesus Christ. Wells was specific in his instruction to not attack the Utes, but to try to capture Chief Wakara of the Ute Indians, while trying to keep peace. This did not happen, because Well’s orders were not received in time. A man named Colonel Conover took the group of troops and attacked, not knowing of General Well’s orders. He went with a group of about one hundred and fifty armed men to pursue these Native Americans. The effects of this event were very large and severe. This event led to many months of attacks from both the Utes and the settlers. After hearing about this incident, President Brigham Young sent a letter of apology for what had happened to Chief Wakara. He even included some tobacco with his letter so that Wakara might accept it better. From this moment on, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints would put in a strict defense system to protect themselves, and those who did not abide by the orders of the First Presidency of the Church were to be taught well their lesson so that they would then obey the orders. The members of the Church began to move all of their cattle and livestock to Salt Lake to be able to protect them.