Saints receive news that 2,500 United States Army troops are coming to Utah.
16 It is cold to day I spent the day in the office some indians
called upon President Young the chief of the Bannocks
was among them. Brother Hamlin was here with the chief
of the Desert Piedes Totsigauah He was ordained an Elder He
called to see me & my garden I gave him some peaches &
peach pitts to take home & plant President Young said He wished
the Elders to marry the squaws of the Tribes to fulfille the
commandm[en]t of God &c
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