Letter from Charles William Stayner, 5 May 1890
Washington D.C. .
President Woodruff
Dear Sir and Brother;
Thinking you would like to hear from this
field, I take the present opportunity of acquain-
ting you with its status as far as I have been
able to visit it. I arrived at St. John Kansas
on Friday Evening May 25th the day before our
Conference at that point. Prest Neibaur and
Elder Banks met me at the station and
accompanied me to the house of Bro George W.
Baker, where we found Elder Richen of
whom I wrote you before leaving home. I found
that his health had somewhat improved
since his removal from Nebraska to Kansas,
^(as well as a rest)^ and he was very desirous of persuing his
labors, if his health would permit. So I con-
cluded to make it a matter of prayer and
to lay the subject before the Priesthood meeting
to be held on the day after Conference. Meantime
I remembered a family ^at Ottumwa^ in Iowa, who are
related to my wife and also to Lucius Snow—a
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