Day in the Life

Jun 28, 1856

Journal Entry

June 28, 1856 ~ Saturday

28 I spent the day in the Historians office or the forenoon
Presidents Young & kimball returned home to day. I had an
interview with Brother Grant. Invited him to call upon us at
the office & give us any items he wished us to record in
the History. I called upon President Young. He gave me an account
of his Journey to the Island. while I was at the office the Brethren
from Sanpete arived with 311 Tithing sheep from Manti & other
settlements brought By Warren C Snow Bishop of Manti they arived
at 4 oclok. Bishop Snow reports that Arropeen is living 12 miles south
of Manti & feels well but has a hard time to keep his people right
while trying to get some of them to give up stolen Horses & cattle
several of them made an attack upon him & injoured his breast which
has made him sick for 2 weeks. Dr Hurt has 160 Acres of wheat
in 80 Acres of it they cannot get water upon it so it will be lost
Arrapeen has Delivered up 17 Head of Horses which Tintics band
had stollen. Tintick who has stollen so many horses & cattle & killed
so many men has sent word that he wants to come in will give up
what He has left wishes to know if we are mad. President Young will
make him no promises but thinks he deserves to die. Kanosh has been
kicked by a wicked horse has 3 ribs broke. He shot the Horse dead
I called upon President H. C. Kimball & he took me all through his
A folded letter/box house & garden was building a storehouse of cobblestone & cement showed
me his stone wall has built 200 rods at $20 dollars a rod I visited
his private room built 16 feet squair done off vary neatly

The Eastern Mail arived at 6 oc[loc]k brought me 1 Letter from J M
Bernhisel
& many papers. I spent the evening looking over the mail

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3428 mentions
Apostle, Family
Chief Arapeen
unk.-1860
23 mentions
Native American
Chief Kanosh
aft. 1813-1881
12 mentions
Native American
Chief Tintic
unk.-1859
5 mentions
Native American
Hurt, Garland
abt. 1820-1903
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
282 mentions
Apostle, Zion's Camp
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
Snow, Warren Stone
15 Jun 1818 - 21 Sep 1896

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Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
hom^e^ from the Island on the . I had an interview with President Grant and invited him to call upon us at the office and give us any items he wished us to record in the History. I called upon President Young and he gave me an account of his journey to the Island. While I was at the Office brethren from Sanpete arrived with 311 tithing sheep. Bishop Warren L Snow reported that Arrowpeen was living 12 miles south of Manti and feeling well but he had a hard time to keep his people right. While trying to get some of them to give up stolen horses and cattle they made an attack upon him and injured his breast which had made him sick for two weeks. Arrowpeen had delivered up 17 head of horses which Tintick^'s^ ^band^ who had stolen. Tinotick who had stolen so many horses ^&c^ ^and cattle^ and killed so many men had sent word that he wanted to come in and would give up what he had left and wanted to know if we were mad. President Young would make him no presents ^promises^ but thought he deserved to die The Law of Tithing Reaches Every Man.

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Wilford poisoned while skinning livestock; life saved through priesthood blessings.

Jun 28, 1856