28 Our Teamsters had another blow up this morning 5 or 6
gold diggers who were driving baggage waggons said
they would leave their object was to take advantage of
our situation & compel us to pay high wages for driving
I told them they might quit as quick as they pleased And
they would none of them go I turned off Williams
the ring leader & the rest went on & were more
Humble. We crossed Salt Creek to day
Br Samuel Smith Died of cholera at 8 oclok at night
Aged 43 years Brother Badlam & myself laid him out in his
robes, laid him on the ground in his tent but we had but
Just got it done untill A tremendious tuhunder storm over-
took us blew the tent down we had to cover over the corpse
& let it lie untill morning
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