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Show -257- September 7. Saturday.' The Hie;h Council met at Ttatc.:10t'. rrI-Je shop rJeU:er andGeorBe Cluff came 'fho o ounc I 1 wer-e 0.1: up. present. Wi t.ne aaas were ce.lled and test,ified. Cluff acl{"1onledcot" preaching what had been proved. SO'L1e of the bishops. and othors wlshd to speak"but President Layton 'would not allow them the privlege. Presidnt Layton docided tlat the dharse had no t been case of .01 Ol,lSta.n0 and tbat i there very {3oocl, so.tisfactl,on first counbelortstated was to t.ne c aus e bishops. of appear. arret. peep Lay.on» >and. September ir "he Le 1[1 did not o;i'l'10 ·t,he Presideni preachine_ that , exonorated,. iel\:er _ tCher. .. , action. Thio w D. .Johnaon , the following Sunday, in tis VIas than and tha Bishop ?re, Jas ever. I'h i s was t aken exc ep t.t on to by 1.11<:'.ny 0.1 d tl':e 11 ttlE s to .be ·tlle main tall"" wi t.h nany abouf 'rhe and is c cuaf ng some division and ill ,feelingr-s among scm Brtber Cluf lov4t:r ,than of no I) ::i II: llil. , 8. Sunday. I attended me e t.Lng at ChlQJ:""son and 'oblnson: spoke on behalf o f the Ac Layton", 1,, :ill Br-o t.her-s adcmy Geptember 15. Sunday. I attended conference at Pim today r.:ost of the bishops gave in their I spoke 6. ahort t i me in r-cpor-t.a the forenoon on the subject of education. Julia and Horace wen h down wi th me" Horace belongs to the Thatcher Choj.l" which did tl!e ; s1nging for the conference and received some for their Ve had some goods at the 'September 16. f.1onday which I depot I went and got" GO I d I d not to the , , , (, some he Apo of weather t i.ng Low is e t Le s uncommonly again. Ii' _' , ·to go visi t .war-m credi. conr er-cnce us for but there this time of , were year, effo.t'i1j. 'I! t7e had Looked for The pr-e se nt and water is got- none , li!1 'I i deptember 21. Saturday.' I started for Phoenix to meet the -1r1"'1-, gation Congress v/hich had been in session at I .ex. .Al.buquer-que pected o. meet Bra Jesse N Smi t.h Geo., Q Cannon and others of our .' , • I , .. ; peop l e ;." I took tle train at Safford at 11 A. I1i. and ar-r Lve d at .Bowie statton at 1 Pa M., Here I waited two hours for the train thej! went en getting to 'l'ucson a li ttle after dar-k, where VH took suppe r arrived at Marieona a little after 10 P. . 22. I arr-I ve d in Phoenix about Got D. Lt- A. M wash and my breakfast, then went down to the Commercial Eotel where I found Bro. Jesse N. Smith and Joseph W. Smith It was a cordial It had been over two years since we had met. 'meeting. e with the company took the train·at 7 A. M. and went to Tempe. Here' ere er carriages wa i ting t:> take us t.o Y·,:;esa. Brother W. Johnson t.ock Bro 3mi t.h , Joseph IN" Smi t.h and myself. :;1e rode around :lesa some a.'10 then went to the Coop. store where in an upper room t a large. one) dinner was served. Several Speeches were made by menbers of the Congress and s6me by looal parties. \ After dir we r.ode bade to 'I'empe where -lie took the train and went about half way to> Pho eru x where we stopped and took carriages that were waitinB for US then went around. to the Orange grove, visi.' ing some old ruins on the way. rUe visi ted the canal, and i:.;ot back t.o Phoenix about dar and got our supper, at the Comerical HotelG Had met s e vcr-a I ac quaf nt cnc ee during tbe day and best of all :le.d put in most of the day in talking with Bro. Smith about home affairs, After supner I took the train for home at 8 P. M. the visiting 0 I , ", .. Sunday.September. I , I , 0 0 . , .. I , party was· to Septo 23 leave'somet.ime durinG the night. rondayo I arri ve d at, Bovi-ie Station at about 8 l.g r;L P. M .whe n I took the train for Safford. Met Mro Garland, the builder of, the Gila Valley Globe, and· Northern Rilroad and tried to get him to put in a depot i Thatcher. He waD wllling that we should have a depot if we would Plt it up and tend it ourselves so that it,would not be any eXgens0 tq him. and had to io wai t over until about, - If I ' \: i |
