September 18, 1885 ~ Friday

Sept 18^th 1885
I gave Elder Jacob Hamblin A mission to the
Lamanits Any whare in the United States or Mexico I gave
him A written Appointment & filed a copoy of the same

September 19, 1885 ~ Saturday

19 [FIGURE] Br Thompson took me in his wagon & we rode to Atkins
Pond & spent the day we shot 10 wild Duck 4 Rabbitts
& one large fat crane & cought about 100 fish with hooks
and returned in the Evening. On my return I had
an interview with Brother Bleak who informed me that
A telegram had Been sent from Beaver saying
that Woodruff, Thurber, Spencer, & others were accused of
threatning to Put Marshal Armstrong & his papers into
the Lake or make him a prisioner [prisoner] in the land. this is
not true but a trumped up story to Black mail us
for Money I moved my quarters for the night

September 20, 1885 ~ Sunday

20 Sunday by I spent the day mostly reading

September 21, 1885 ~ Monday

21 I have felt for several years that there was a
change coming over Zion, & over our Nation & the world
at large. I have spoken of it in public in several instances,
and it has commenced. The United States Government has sent
Judges & Marshals to Utah to prosicute all the Mormons they
can for Poligamy & cohabitation with their own wives
and they have turned it more into persecution than prosecution
untill our prisions are crouded with the Leading Men
of the Church. All the Leading Men are Either in prision
or Exhile All of the 3 first presidency are hid up & myself
& the Twelve Apostles are in Exhile and many other leading men
of the Church And the United States Government with the
Editors & P[riest] are laboring to destroy the saints of God we shall see

September 18, 1885 ~ Friday

Sept 18th 1885 FIGURES I gave Elder Jacob Hamblin A mission to the Lamanits Any whare in the United States or Mexico I gave him A written Appointment & filed a copy of the same

September 19, 1885 ~ Saturday

19 [FIGURE] Br Thompson took me in his wagon & we rode to Atkins Pond & spent the day we shot 10 wild Duck 4 Rabbitts & one large fat crane & cought about 100 fish with hooks and returned in the Evening. On my return I had an interview with Brother Bleak who informed me that [FIGURE] A telegram had Been sent from Beaver saying that Woodruff, Thurber, Spencer, & others were accused of threatning to Put Marshal Armstrong & his papers into the Lake or make him a prisioner in the land. this is not true but a trumped up story to Black mail us for Money I moved my quarters for the night

September 20, 1885 ~ Sunday

20 Sunday I spent the day mostly reading

September 21, 1885 ~ Monday

21 FIGURES I have felt for several years that there was a change coming over Zion, & over our Nation & the world at large. I have spoken of it in public in several instances, and it has commenced. The United States Government has sent Judges & Marshals to Utah to prosicute all the Mormons they can for Poligamy & cohabitation with their own wives and they have turned it more into persecution than prosecution untill our prisions are crouded with the Leading Men of the Church. All the Leading Men are Either in prision or Exhile All of the 3 first presidency are hid up & myself & the Twelve Apostles are in Exhile and many other leading men of the Church And the United States Government with the Editors & Priest are laboring to destroy the saints of God we shall see