April 16
I had a sick night with cold on my lungs it is a warm plesant
day. Thomas Bullock called in & I let him have two
Journal for helping Brother Kimball on his history
for 1838, [183]9, & [18]40. It is a warm plesant day. Mr Morrel
the Post Master had a fight with Dick James He told
Morrell that he was a Dumb Gentile Post Master who
stole peoples Letter broke them open & read them. Dick
James was Garland Hurts Indian Interpeter. Morrell
pitched into Richards James and and they both come
out best Morrell had his face scrached up badly, & Richards
hid his Eyes gouged some & was parted by the poliece & taken
before the mayor. this was on the 15th G. A. S. received a
Letter From Calafornia containing one for President
Young I carried it to him He opened it found it from
John V. Cooper who tried to sell us the Musketoe country
asked some two or three million dollars for it now he offers
it for $100000. $10000 dollars down & the remainder
in Annual Enstallments. President Young told him
while in this City if the whole country which he prop[ose]d
to sell was covered 18 inches thick with solid gold plate
& he could have for picking it up he would not take
it as a gift if he had to move this Church & people there
President Young said he must be a fool to still try
to get him to buy that land, after telling him what
He had. President Young attended the High Council on
a case appealed, from referees Betwen Bishop Smith &
Sanford Porter the High Council sustained the decisin
of the referees who sustained Bishop Smith
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