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Show mho . r . " e '·7Y.S hGre ,mt1.e sight Dram the s1..'pm1 t .ff;as a grand equally pioturesque and ·v/ln.dinn;. r/e, ' oon 4eached the Arkansas River and' passIng d01i·tte·f8mous canyon, merged at canyon ,City here the state Penitentiary is locatec. e on 't a .. r.! muc '1 cur anow . d,escent ecn d Pue' 10 • Vias. a:t-· about 4 P." 1. then took'the A .... I .. and s. F'. Railroad and ar.rived· at La Junta ·a: about 7 :30 F.U'•. ;oiere I chenrted car e, tak ng the west bound .trf\in.', . Sa 1. 10.,. I woke up.. thi s ,morning e.s 'the ccnduo t oz- called' RO/iAon •. too { bt"eakfst a.t La.s :t Vegas. passed V'Jhez:.e. a. tright -train had been vJrcckad the day bet·ore. 'Ab'out aevent sen cars vv.ere all mashed to pieces. ',\'lie e.rri,'"ed in Albtqllerque about 6 P.tll!. r stopped at ur. andell·a and slept with.him.. Jan. 11. I made ·a fe'vV'·purchases. o'f goods for our store at I uoodrufx. t'901 a ride in the ar t.er-nocn about t1( 01 -e,y 'l1" th !.1r. I: at.t end ed the:'theater last' everrrng He.udell. The play was the' which was intended to show ·ho·the oan1tea. Mormons took vangence on the poor eHnigrant{ as' they passed., It was, a. poor affair but giren to prejudice people.against the Mormons.. Jan. 12. Fres. Taylor, and Pal"ty came into Albttr19rque la.st '. night,. trhe pa1:"ty consisted of Pres .John Tajrlor,' J03eph F. Smith, Erastus Snow, F. rJI. Lyman , M. John John r'l .. . " . . . , . . • Thu,'tcher, Q. Co.nnont' Sharp, Spencer,. J. . Smith and Lot Sith •. I relt where a' po-r,t of them were and' spent a pleasant . George 3eynolds, Bro. dorm to their car tini6 7i th thm. Ero Smi th requested me ·to go, home and look after the store and ti thing rna ttern. The. "train that I was going out on was Lat.e stelorting, so 1. twas about 2 P.M. 1/!b,·en I bid the party, goodbye and strted for Holbrook. e arived at Holbrook a little after 10 P.M. As I did not wish to be reen, I got off from th hind end of the train' on the back side and started back to the crossing of' -the rusrca. trpcn ar-r t v Lng ther I found the water qui te high and running thick wi th mush ice. I wont up quite a. distance to find a '\vide sh11o'VV place but in th dakness could not tell, very well. I pulled oft my boots and pants and waded aer-o aa, ,Near tho edges the a·till wo:t;,er was frozen over but not ,hard.enough to carry met so I broke through every step. It wa's a.' cold and dinagreeabla hath., I waHead on .up to Wooclru.ff, arriving there about 3 A.M •. ,1 stopped with'ap. J. C. Owens and slept with John B. Milnor. .' ,jan. 13. I sta:ted a.t Bro. Owens during the dt,i.Y' The store boolcs were. brOU[)lt in, 8,Y.}.d I, looked them over. A 11 t·t1e aft/er darl Clarence owens hi tched up a team a..YlQ t.o ck me to Snov;flf',ke where VIe arri'lO<1 about 11 P.T;!. ! spent the few following '.days in wr it,ing. Jan. 17... I wen t to' V!o0 druff , ti:u{ng my wife Julia and son' I understood that the off.icera wert) after P.W for Joseph .0. polysamy, so I remained at Br o .• John : Ri.e4he"ad 's ana a, sh*Jrt tlr.ls a t Bro. Charles Jarvi s; s. ! remained here. 'until the 22, porking' on the store bccks 1: tr<3.1"lsfered the accounts into a new ledgor. There W.6."'e 2B4':·flccounts. I made a list of all debts due the stor. The books were brought to me from the store bV Charles c.rtrvia •. I.did not gO into--the,s cor-e .: San 22. I went to Snow'flake wi".;,h Bro., Jamen D. Smithson. ! started after' dark rmd arrived ·there about midnisht Jan. 29 r was notified tho:', the ,.!rlarthals wer e expected n town) so t. went down +,0 Joaph w. Sm th' s wher I worlced at the tl thing account a ,: •. '. ' . . , .. . ,_.. .. . , .. .. : , . .. . •. , |
