April 16, 1859 ~ Saturday

April 16

I had a sick night with cold on my lungs it is a warm plesant
day. Thomas Bullock called in & I let him have two
Journal for helping Brother Kimball on his history
for 1838, [183]9, & [18]40. It is a warm plesant day. Mr Morrel
the Post Master had a fight with Dick James He told
Morrell that he was a Dumb Gentile Post Master who
stole peoples Letter broke them open & read them. Dick
James was Garland Hurts Indian Interpeter. Morrell
pitched into Richards James and and they both come
out best Morrell had his face scrached up badly, & Richards
hid his Eyes gouged some & was parted by the poliece & taken
before the mayor. this was on the 15^th G. A. S. received a
Letter From Calafornia containing one for President
Young I carried it to him He opened it found it from
John V. Cooper who tried to sell us the Musketoe country
asked some two or three million dollars for it now he offers
it for $100000. $10000 dollars down & the remainder
in Annual Enstallments. President Young told him
while in this City if the whole country which he prop[ose]d
to sell was covered 18 inches thick with solid gold plate
& he could have for picking it up he would not take
it as a gift if he had to move this Church & people there
President Young said he must be a fool to still try
to get him to buy that land, after telling him what
He had. President Young attended the High Council on
a case appealed, from referees Betwen Bishop Smith &
Sanford Porter the High Council sustained the decisin
of the referees who sustained Bishop Smith

April 17, 1859 ~ Sunday

17^th Sunday 17^th A Lyman Preached in the morning
O Pratt in the Afternoon I met with my Quorm in the
morning we did not Pray I met with the Quorum of the
12 at 6 oclok O. Hyde Prayed I was mouth.

April 18, 1859 ~ Monday

18^th There was an Express came in in the night
saying that 2000 of the army with Judge Sinclair would
start in the night for Salt Lake City All the police were
called out in the night and arangements made to meet
them if they attempted to meet them come in. I set
out 40 young trees to day. I also attended a surgucal opera-
tion by Dr France & Anderson one of the worst surgercul
opperations ever performed his name was [blank] Hawkins
from Bever it was a malignant canser commenced on the
lip iat first it was not larger than a pea it could then
have been cut out with safety but some Friends advised
him not to do it thought they could cure it, but It continued
to spread untill it eat up two thirds of the lower Jaw & nearly
to the pallet, they cut out 2/3 of the lower Jaw & one third of
the lower lip & took out all the chin but the skin & one third
of that they sowed the tung to the upper lip whare it has to
remain untill it heals up if his tongue was now loose he would
swallow it. it was the awfulest affair I ever witnessed. their
has been about 100 opperation of the same kind in the world for
the last 100 years 60 out of the 100 lived Needles were used for stitches

April 16, 1859 ~ Saturday

April 16 I had a sick night with cold on my lungs it is a warm plesant day. Thomas Bullock called in & I let him have two Journal for helping Brother Kimball on his history for 1838, 9, & 40. It is a warm plesant day. Mr Morrell the Post Master had a fight with Dick James He told Morrell that he was a Dumb gentile Post Master who stole peoples Letter broke them open & read them. Dick James was Garland Hurts Indian Interpeter. Morrell pitched into Richards James and and they both come out best Morrell had his face scrached up badly, & Richards hid his Eyes gouged some & was parted by the poliece & taken before the mayor. this was on the 15th. G. A. S. Received a Letter From Calafornia containing one for President Young I carried it to him He opened it found it from John V. Cooper who tried to sell us the Musketoe country asked some two or three million dollars for it now he offers it for $100000. $10000 dollars down & the remainder in Annual Enstallments. President Young told him while in this City if the whole country which he proposed to sell was covered 18 inches thick with solid gold plate & he could have for picking it up he would not take it as a gift if he had to move this Church & people there President Young said he must be a fool to still try to get him to buy that land, after telling him what He had. President Young attended the High Council on a case appealed, from Referees Betwen Bishop Smith & Sanford Porter the High Council sustained the decision of the referees who sustained Bishop Smith

April 17, 1859 ~ Sunday

17th Sunday A Lyman Preached in the morning O Pratt in the Afternoon I met with my Quorum in the morning we did not Pray I met with the Quorum of the 12 at 6 oclok O. Hyde Prayed I was mouth.

April 18, 1859 ~ Monday

18th [FIGURE] There was an Express came in in the night saying that 2000 of the army with Judge Sinclair would start in the night for Salt Lake City. All the police were called out in the night and arangements made to meet them if they attempted to come in. I set out 40 young trees to day. I also attended a surgucal operation by Dr France & Anderson one of the worst surgercal opperations ever performed his name was [blank] Hawkins from Bever it was a malignant canser commenced on the lipat first it was not larger than a pea it could then have been cut out with safety but some Friends advised him not to do it thought they could cure it, but It continued to spread untill it eat up two thirds of the lower Jaw & nearly to the pallet, they cut out 2/3 of the lower Jaw & one third of the lower lip & took out all the chin but the skin & one third of that they sowed the tung to the upper lip whare it has to remain untill it heals up if his tongue was now loose he would swallow it. it was the awfulest affair I ever witnessed. their has been about 100 opperation of the same kind in the world for the last 100 years 60 out of the 100 lived Needles were used for stitches