Oct 25 I went to the Church stray pen to get a Durham Bull
calf which Brother Wm Rydalch let me have he had
never been halter broak & we put a lariet on his neck & he
nearly choaked to death before we could do any thing with
him he faught us with great force I got him home
& shut him up & fed him I then assisted in cleaning
out four hog pens whare the Hogs was belly deep in mud
wilford started to Fort Harriman with my two yoke of oxen
& my loped horn heifer & one red calf left ear croped
& [sideways text] W [end of sideways text] on the righ shoulder. I spent the afternoon in the
office, Journalizing. Brothers A J Stewart & G. S. Clark
arived this evening from Austrailia mission they came
From Calafornia via Carson valley Brother Stewart
Spent the night with me gave me an account of his
Mission Luke Johnson also spent the night with me
26 Claudius Spencer started a drove of cattle to Rush
Valley this morning Brother Stewart started for home
The city Poliece has turned one room into a Calabose
to shut up their prisioners so they could not be liberated
by the mob. I recieved 500 feet of Lumber of the public
works at $3 per hundred $15. Brother & sister Smoot
spent the night with me He informed me that Samuel
A Gilbert Had written a liebill of the worst form against
Utah, the mormons, & Govornor Cummings saying the
court Records & Library were burned & that Govornor
Cummings had lied in saying they were not burned
Govornor Cummings called Mr Gilbert Judge
St Clair & Secretary Hartnett to his room he made
Gilbert acknowledge that he wrote the letter. He raised
his cane over his head & swore he would kill him
if he did not contradict the statement in writing
which he did He also made Judge St Clair & Hartnett
sign a document saying that the records & Library were
not burned & that Gilbert had not lied
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