267 Sunday I attended Meeting and spoke to the people
44 M[inutes], C W Penrose 38 M[inutes]
~ Monday
28 I spent the forenoon in the office I received 4 letters
I held a meeting at 11 oclok with Joseph F Smith John John SharpB Young & John W. Young. We had receivd
intelligence from Jesse N. Smith that the Ring at St John
was trying to rob our People of their homes by trying to
Buy the Rail Road Lands upon which a part of the
Town of St John stands occupied By our people
We telegraphed to Gen Williamson of Washington D.C.
who was the General Land agent of those RR Lands
to Telegraph to Gen Sedgwick not to dispose of those
Lands untill he received our letter of same date this was
signed By W. Woodruff John Sharp B Young & J W Young. We
also sent a letter to Gen Williamson giving him an
account of matters appertaining to it both Letters & Telegraph
copied into my copy Book. In company with J F Smith F. D. Richards B Young & H S Eldridge we ordained Christian Daniel Fjelstead to the office of one of the
first Seven Presidents of the Seventies W Woodruff was mouth
27 Sunday I attended Meeting and spoke to the people
44 Minutes, C W Penrose 38 Minutes
~ Monday
28 [FIGURE] I spent the forenoon in the office I received 4 letters
I held a meeting at 11 oclok with Joseph F Smith John
John SharpB Young & John W. Young. We had receivd
intelligence from Jesse N. Smith that the Ring at St John
was trying to rob our People of their homes by trying to
Buy the Rail Road Lands upon which a part of the
Town of St John stands occupied By our people
We telegraphed to Gen Williamson of Washington D.C.
who was the General Land agent of those RR Lands
to Telegraph to Gen Sedgwick not to dispose of those
Lands untill he received our letter of same date this was
signed By W. Woodruff John Sharp B Young & J W Young. We
also sent a letter to Gen Williamson giving him an
account of matters appertaining to it both Letters & Telegraph
copied into my copy Book. In company with J F Smith
F. D. Richards B Young & H S Eldridge we ordained
Christian Daniel Fjelstead to the office of one of the
first Seven Presidents of the Seventies W Woodruff was mouth
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," April 25, 1884 - April 30, 1884, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/A6L3