Jan 23
I met with the Quorum of the Twelve for Prayer
Prayed. was mouth. we conversed till 9 oclok
upon the subject of the Education of the people in this
& the furnishing of the people with Books they estimated that it
would cost about one million of Dollars to furnish Books &
stationary to educate what people there was now in the Territory
in speaking of the Deserett Alphabet they thought we would have
to continue the English Books as well as the Deserett Alphabet as
we could not print but few Books in the Deseret Alphabet
January 24, 1859 ~ Monday
24th I spent the fore part of the day in the but all the desks
were painted fresh & the paint made me sick. I met in the
evening with the Deseret Agricultural & Manufacturing society
at Bishop we appointed an Agent for the society, I
[FIGURE] Received a Letter from Dr & two papers
January 25, 1859 ~ Tuesday
25th I spent the day Journalizing in the I spent the
evening mostly with President &
from came in President Young
enquired where was Snow said he had just
returned from the Armey & wished to see Brigham Young
before he went back from to Sanpete. The Army showed
him their big guns aArrowpene told them some mormons
some Utes, & some Americans lied. President Young said
that the secretary had no right to refuse to pay the Legislature
but he should pay them for the 40 days session this was
the custom of all Legislators
January 26, 1859 ~ Wednesday
26th We have had a steady snow storm all day I
[FIGURE] called in the a short time President
was well I spent the evening at home I carried to the
Book binder to be bound the following works
The Mormon Vol 1, 2, 3, Nauvoo Neighbor Vol 2, & 3,
Frontier Guardian Vol. 1, 2, 3 Western Standard vol. 1, 2,
New York Messenger Vol. 2, all up to No. 20,
Deseret News Vol 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7. I also gave him two
News papers Dated 1806 & 1814 & several others for binding
Also the Seer vol 1, vol 2, 8 Numbers.
January 27, 1859 ~ Thursday
27 [FIGURE] I called upon the secretary with to get
our pay. He paid me $105 per diem & $50 for Mileage $155
{I conversed with Brother Snow upon the subject of his taking for his wife.} The Secretary
still owes me $15 for the 5 days while going to
the Secretary takes a strange course He pays some their
Full per diem $120, others He pays $105, and other Less.
I paid my tithing to Brother $15.50. I settled with
Bishop my tithing which amounted to $205.74
I had paid it all except $20.50 which I setteled with
an order to that amount from
I spent the evening at home it had snowed all day
, , & all went over to
through the snow storm. Elder Lorenzo Snow spent
the evening with me till midnight {He had some diversion with Phebe}