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Day in the Life

Jan 6, 1882

Journal Entry

January 06, 1882 ~ Friday

6 I returned from the farm and it was made known to
[FIGURE] me that there was an Insane man in the City said He
came from Calafornia Professed to be Christ and said
God had ordained him to Baptize by fire all who did not
receive his testimony and that was to be through a pistol
or Rifle he was to kill every one who did not receive
his testimony and He was Esspecially ordained to kill
John Taylor & George Q Cannon I laid the matter before
President Taylor But he did not seem to have any fears
upon the matter But we thought it proper to lay the Matter
before the Probate Judge and as the court thot him a dangerous
man to be at libyerty arangements were made to put the
man in the Insane assylum. We had a hard snow storm
I wrote a Joint letter to Bro McAllister & Bleak

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1966 mentions
Apostle
Bleak, James Godson
15 Nov 1829 - 30 Jan 1918
449 mentions
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
599 mentions
Missionary
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1835 mentions
Apostle

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California

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I returned from the farm and it was made known to [FIGURE] me that there was an Insane man in the City said He came from Calafornia Professed to be Christ and said God had ordained him to Baptize by fire all who did not receive his testimony and that was to be through a pistol or Rifle he was to kill every one who did not receive his testimony and He was Esspecially ordained to kill John Taylor & George Q Cannon. I laid the matter before President Taylor But he did not seem to have any fears upon the matter But we thought it proper to lay the Matter before the Probate Judge and as the court thot him a dangerous man to be at libyerty arangements were made to put the man in the Insane assylum.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Jan 6, 1882