Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff dies at age 13 months.
30th Wilford started with a team to carry Jesse Fox
to Rush valley to esstablish the south line of our Grant
I went with my team & carried G. A. Smith & others
on the west Bank of Jordon to hold a meeting with
the company to deside whare we would build the dam
to take out the Jordon River to water land we spent
two hours on the ground & adjourned to the Historian
office on wednesday night. We called upon the President
we were informed that the court was trying to get him
to appear as a witness on the morrow it was expected
that there was a plan laid to kill him But God will
ward off the Blow Hosea Stout had an interview with
Sinclair who said He believed that the object was to get
Brigham Young out & not to carry out law or Justice
I spent most of the afternoon in the office I spent the
evening with the President & the committe on the Deseret
Alphabet we laboured till near 11 oclok on the word Rule
the brethren could not agree upon the sound of it most
of the company wanted it {r-oo-l} others want it {r-i-oo-l}
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