Aug. 12 Rode in company with Elders Patten & Smoot to Paris from thence to J. M. Gilbert Esq {distance} 35 mi[les] Elder Patten informed us that Benton County mob had formed themselves into an independant company to beat & kill the Elders of latter Day Saints if they came into that county will not God be avenged upon such a nation as this O God save thy Saints while Babylon falls