Congress rejects fourth petition for formation of State of Deseret; Brigham Young still serves as Governor.
17 A Plesant morning I went up to the office in the morning
at 10 oclock I went with Col J. C. Little to Brother Lees and atte-
nded the funeral of Peter Walehlen who was shot in the battle
with the morrisites. I preached a shotrt sermon on the occasi-
on was followed with a few remarks by Phineas Young &
Abel Lamb I then returned to the office. In the afternoon
I went onto the Balcony of the Deseret Store with H. C. Kimball
G. A. Smith F D. Richards A. O. Smoot and several others
to see the Army with there prisioners pass by but they passed
on the Block below us. Brother Richards and myself went
down with the croud & followed along side of the prisioners
to the Court House there was a vary large procession of the
military, prisioners, & spectators the Prisioners were marched
^
^ into the court yard on the East side of the Court House and
there guarded I went up & took a view of them I saw
Richard Cook who I consider is the most wicked & the
worst man in the company as he took Morris in & was
the means of putting him up to be a prophet & was the main
spring of the organization of the band. He looked vary sheepish
& wicked He partially hid himself behingd his brother John
there were some 80 prisioners the remainder old men and
ignorant were left with the women. the whole of the company
of Prisioners looked wicked. I went into the House and Herd
Dr Clinton give a relation of the affair at South Webber &
I marvel that there was not more killed upon our side than
there was. while conversing Dr Clinton was called for
to go to the Arsenal & dress a wound as one of the brethren
was accidentally shot in the foot we immediately went
up to the arsenal & found it was Brother Richard Hopkins
the ball went in at the little toe & went along in the flesh
part of the foot towards the Heel. We laid Hands upon him
& I prayed for him & He was then taken holm I went
down to his house on Examination it was found that the ball
went through the toe of the boot and flattened it out to a sharp
Edge it went into the toe joining the little toe mashed the toe to pieces
went through the foot the whole length of it cutting the whole
length of the sole of the foot open as though it had been cut open
with a knife & the ball lodged under the Heel bone it was a serious
wound
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