Oct 22nd 1871

Sunday Afternoon O Pratt spoke one hour & 30 Minutes I met
with the Presidency & Twelve for Prayer

October 23, 1871 ~ Monday to October 27, 1871 ~ Friday

23rd to 27. I spent the week diging carrotts & Beets & choring
President Young & G. A. Smith with several others started South
to spend the winter

October 28, 1871 ~ Saturday

28 Oct 1871 I met with the school of the prophets D H
Wells was present & spoke & left the school Before it was closed &
went into the street & soon after the school was closed President
Daniel H. Wells Hosea Stout, & W^m Kimball were all three
arested for Murder on the Testimony of W^m Hickman
all three of the Men were as innocent as children But W^m
Hickman is trying to clear himself By laying all of his damna-
ble Murders upon Innocent Men & the wicked Judges and
U. S. Officers in this City are trying to Murder the Innocent
& to clear the guilty. The above 3 Brethren were confined in
Camp Douglass & it is reported that President Grant is backing
up these wicked Judges to persecute the leaders of this People
so as to create an open war upon the L. D. Saints we held
a council at President Youngs office in the Evening

October 29, 1871 ~ Sunday

29. Sunday In company with H. S. Eldridge
& A. Carrington I went to Camp Duglass & visited
President Wells, H Stout & W^m Kimball, who were Prisioners
under a Militatry Guard, Indited for Murder who were
as innocent of the crime as the Savior before his Crucifixion
while we were there Elder G. Q. Cannon came in had just
arived from Calafornia was in a Rail Road Mass up
& a Miracle that He was not killed quite a Number of
the Brethren were in visiting the Prisioners at about one
oclok we left the Brethren & returned to the City the Prisioners
seemed to Feel cheerful & fell to trust in God But it was
one of the Most wicked persecutions in the annals of time
I Attended the Meeting in the Afternoon & Elder O Pratt
spoke one hour & 25 Minutes upon the words of Paul
in the 14 Ch of Hebrews "Marriage is honorable in all &c"
at the close of the Meeting we Met for Prayer then had a
council I received a letter from David Kimball

Oct 22nd 1871

Sunday Afternoon O Pratt spoke one hour & 30 Minutes I met with the Presidency & Twelve for Prayer

October 23, 1871 ~ Monday to October 27, 1871 ~ Friday

23rd to 27. I spent the week diging carrotts & Beets & choring [FIGURE] President Young & G. A. Smith with several others started South to spend the winter

October 28, 1871 ~ Saturday

28 Oct 1871 FIGURES I met with the school of the prophets D H Wells was present & spoke & left the school Before it was closed & went into the street & soon after the school was closed President Daniel H. Wells Hosea Stout, & Wm Kimball were all three arested for Murder on the Testimony of Wm Hickman all three of the Men were as innocent as children But Wm Hickman is trying to clear himself By laying all of his damnable Murders upon Innocent Men & the wicked Judges and U. S. Officers in this City are trying to Murder the Innocent & to clear the guilty. The above 3 Brethren were confined in Camp Douglass & it is reported that President Grant is backing up these wicked Judges to persecute the leaders of this People so as to create an open war upon the L. D. Saints we held a council at President Youngs office in the Evening

October 29, 1871 ~ Sunday

29. Sunday FIGURES In company with H. S. Eldridge & A. Carrington I went to Camp Duglass & visited President Wells, H Stout & Wm Kimball, who were Prisioners under a Militatry Guard, Indited for Murder who were as innocent of the crime as the Savior before his Crucifixion while we were there Elder G. Q. Cannon came in had just arived from Calafornia was in a Rail Road Mass up & a Miracle that He was not killed quite a Number of the Brethren were in visiting the Prisioners at about one oclok we left the Brethren & returned to the City the Prisioners seemed to Feel cheerful & fell to trust in God But it was one of the Most wicked persecutions in the annals of time I Attended the Meeting in the Afternoon & Elder O Pratt spoke one hour & 25 Minutes upon the words of Paul in the 14 Ch of Hebrews "Marriage is honorable in all &c" at the close of the Meeting we Met for Prayer then had a council [FIGURE] I received a letter from David Kimball