Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
Next morning I arose early
and looked for an express signal flag but saw none. There
Oct 1st I arose Early in the morning & looked for an express
signal flag but saw none No express in I walked to the
Historians office & wrote a short time there was a good
deal of anxiety through the day waiting for an express I spent
most of the day in the office I visited the state fair the show
was vary Good there was a great variety of full cloths was
presented that were substantial. I called into the Presidents office
found President Brigham Young H C Kimball Carrington G.
Grant & Wm Kimball and an express arived from Col J C.
Little giving us an account of the number of solders which
were with him & about Echo Canyon. He wished a spy glass
some amunition & tools. as soon as we got through reading
his Letters an Express arived from Gen D. H. Wells J Taylor
& G. A. Smith sent By Joseph A Young & J W Cummings
Oct 1st 1857
saying that they had sent an express to the United States
army containing Governor Youngs orders for them to surr
enders all there arms & baggage to Lewis Robinson Quarter
Master General at Fort Bridger or to retreat back to the
States or we should resist them. They were camped upon
Hams fork and they were awaiting an Answer to this
Message & would send an express in as soon as they got it
they related an incident of their triying to stampede their ani-
mals but found them not ownly hobbled but chained with
a log chain. One Brother Simons was shot dead through
the Head acidentally by another Brother the Body is sent in
to his friends
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