July 11
by any law to go to that camp & he should not do it & if
He was his Lawyier he should advise him to let the Judges
do as they pleased at the examination & if I was in his
place I would Neither Deny nor confess any thing but would
remain silent. if he is guity he ought to be cuffed for
I have employed him for 2 years & paid him & helped
his family & for such a man to ingaged in such a business
I feel like spanking him they seek evry opportunity to
Hatch up an accusation against me. If MCKinzie will
tell the truth it will be all right as far as I am concerned
But if my enemies can get him to lie against me or any
body els so they can make a war on me then their will
be a fight on hand and this will be as soon as the Lord will
Brother Hosea wrote to MCkinzie, that the holding of a court
at Camp Floyd in a military camp was illegal & contrary
to the instructions of Judge Black & President Bucannan
I shall not come to plead any cause in that camp

A man called upon President Young & informed him that
he had found a good bed of stone colal on the Webber from
4 to 10 miles above the mouth of echo canyon. He found three
veins of the coal about 3 feet each & the man is an old colyier [collier]
He ingaged to deliver to President Young 100 tons of coal at
$20 per ton

July 12, 1859 ~ Tuesday

12 President Young called into [Co &c] Commission Room
E. T. Benson was present. He has been to provo & held a meeting
saw Brother Carns & told him that he herd that He
was Brain cracked & low spirited He said that it was
true and any man that could be shut up in a dirty sell
as long as I was with some 25 drunken Irish who were
cursing, swearing, fighting, spewing, & shitting & trampling
over me without being Brain cracked & down spirited then
He has a stronger spirit than I have I vomited many
times nearly all there was in me. H Stout said that
Wilson remarked that He expected that Judge Cradlebaugh
& Sinclair would Join Issue against Buchannan & Judge
Black. But whatever they done Stout said they would
Bemean themselves. President Young dreamed a few
nights since that He saw those Judges drunk & they behaved
as ^bad as^ they could evry thing they done was dirty and filthy
The Probate court has been in session about four weeks and
Adjourned to day senedi. I spent the day in the office

July 13, 1859 ~ Wednesday

July 13^th I went over Jordon & staked out my grass ground
& went to the office at 1 oclock I found President Young
& D H Wells in the office President Young invited me
to meet at his House at 2 oclok as He was going to have
an interview with Horace Greely I met agreeable to invitation
I Found Mr Greely A singular looking man He
was midling well dressed white but bald Headed his
head vary dirty looked as though He had not washed
his Head since He came off the plains He had quite
a feminine soft green appearance He asked many Questions

July 11 by any law to go to that camp & he should not do it & if He was his Lawyier he should advise him to let the Judges do as they pleased at the examination & if I was in his place I would Neither Deny nor Confess any thing but would remain silent. if he is guity he ought to be Cuffed for I have employed him for 2 years & paid him & helped his family & for such a man to ingaged in such a business I feel like spanking him they seek evry opportunity to Hatch up an accusation against me. If MCKinzie will tell the truth it will be all right as far as I am concerned But if my enemies can get him to lie against me or any body els so they can make a war on me then their will be a fight on hand and this will be as soon as the Lord will Brother Hosea wrote to MCKinzie that the holding of a court at Camp Floyd in a military camp was illegal & contrary to the instructions of Judge Black & President Bucannan I shall not come to plead any cause in that camp

A man called upon President Young & informed him that he had found a good bed of stone coal on the Webber from 4 to 10 miles above the mouth of echo canyon He found three veins of the coal about 3 feet each & the man is an old colyier He ingaged to deliver to President Young 100 tons of coal at $20 per ton

July 12, 1859 ~ Tuesday

12 President Young called into Co& Commission Room E. T. Benson was present He has been to provo & held a meeting saw Brother Carns & told him that he herd that He was Brain cracked & low spirited He said that it was true and any man that could be shut up in a dirty sell as long as I was with some 25 drunken Irish who were cursing, swearing, fighting, spewing, & shitting & trampling over me without being Brain cracked & down spirited then He has a stronger spirit then I have I vomited many times nearly all there was in me. H Stout said that Wilson remarked that He expected that Judge Cradlebaugh & Sinclair would Join Issue against Buchannan & Judge Black. But whatever they done Stout said they would Be mean themselves. President Young dreamed a few nights since that He saw those Judges drunk & they behaved as bad as they could evry thing they done was dirty and filthy The Probate court has been in session about four weeks and Adjourned to day senedi. I spent the day in the office

July 13, 1859 ~ Wednesday

July 13th I went over Jordon & staked out my grass ground & went to the office at 1 oclock I found President Young & D H Wells in the office President Young invited me to meet at his House at 2 oclok as He was going to have an interview with Horace Greely I met agreeable to invitation I Found Mr Greely A singular looking man He was midling well dressed white but bald Headed his head vary dirty looked as though He had not washed his Head since He came off the plains He had quite a feminine soft green appearance He asked many Question