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Show 1 96 .. 266- I received'a af 2 litter,ysterday ftom Dro Jess0 1'. ;snllth a n /:ich he state t na t there "vas a po:3r;;ibil:tty of' r.W \,tir c .... dc La i de pas s Lng away. She has been s 101" s Lnc c the t os C 'jar" 0" :i;ovGmbc·r. lEG ...... leo wr o t.e me hie v i ewe on t18 late manifcsto(as it, is coumon'Ly tel" ed around here) and. hew Utah go t to oe D. S ta t.e In I"] or inion his vicrJe; wer-e very good, and I ap )reciated t.hem Fiday. , .. quit I I ;gay 30.' ao ·60 'so '!re ! highly. decided at once to go ovr to Snowflake to see Adelaide, so spet t th day in fixing up for t6 trio. I decided to maLo the trip on hor-aebac kj and HOl""4C,e who was going' wi th me spent mo s t of he day iI, getting a orse. He finally hired one from Avi L Alltm, of Thatcher. as t.o to v - Je ",ot up at, midnir;ht Saturday.. t.he all )1i :ht We satl.uleCi Le ave ha:ve a Lmo s and fLcOQ our- bee hi"'·e,' up o.nd'stD.rtcC: c.'l, 2A.111. travel to the mountain f if tee '1 mi los wher-e we n the t cool part of the day to from Safford some due ror t.h struck a spring of wa te r This had been fixed il/i th t.r-cughe co as to water stock but even with tis method of saving all the vter,. there seemed to be a scarci ty of wa t.er and s t.ock could hardly , eet what, they want.e d ,rrherG had been wagons' up this far (0 Hore we' ate a 11 ttle br-e akr as t and then 'went, on crossing the aummd t , something like a mile distant. :W turned to the northwest course toward 1 o c key Canyon. The next water, we found was a very 15.. ttle at the slaughter pens about 13 miles, f r-om the spring whe e ue t.ook We then ent across the flat some 20 miles to breaiasta Rockey Canyon where tva o.rri ved about 8 P. 11. 'tie lay down among the pr-i ck ley pears and r-ocks for a few hou6, but did 'not get sn, ch reBt, May 31. Sunday.' We got up at 3A. M4 and started. It was dar and we had a rough time getting over the rocks and washes for about a mile. when vie struck the wagon road in Hockey Canyol1G )[!e found a 11ttle,/water on the divide e... L the head of t.he canyon v;here we wat·, ered O"LU' hor-ae s , and t.he n werrt on a few miles where We stopped and ate a little breakfatt after ,which we went on Black past River near-Ly to 'Turkey Creek wner-e vIe s topped for d i nner-, tie ar ..... ved at'For Apache about 4 P. M. I went to the te16graph office and found that \delaide was somewhat betterJ so we conclded to stop ..' here ,all night. June 1. ",le started at 3· A. IA. and c ame out some 8 r.onday. L lee ! for breakfast. ite .then 'went on to rflr. IV1urphys where '1J7e stopped and t.ock dinner vvi th hi n , and cot him to put on tV-/O shoes on one 0_ our animals. Here I eot on the buc kbo ar d , and went 0:'1., leavine; ,Horace to follow with. the horsGs. I got supper at Bro. Dradys and then we came on , ,arrivinc; 'at Snolflflake abcu t 10 I·'" r<. I found ,Adelaida quite poorly though somewhat be:ter than she had heel I was much eratified to find her so v"lel1 but her' long e tc kne s s had told upon her to a great ex t en t ,June 2.' Tuesday. I spent the day aout home. I had tho elerS c ome i1 .. and administer to my \yife wh i.ch helped ller co ns Lder-cb Le 11) Bro. I. G. !\llaeser was here. He had a t t ended the Sunday School conference whjh had iust c10sed last nighte -June 3. We ( t.he family) fastert.,this nor-nf g and She seems to be for Adelaide. prayed gettinp; some better. I t Bros spent the evening at Aunt -Jane t s r.a'3er, Srni t.h , and come o t.he r s time. and we had a were present" left aesor June 4. Bro. bnowflake this morning for Thursday_ nen . r; , . . I · ; . .. I ' , ·VdnGSd.ay: . .. , pl_o.sat· I' uttended I spoke a ut,te-1dancG'W St., Johns. of .evil June B 'Jcal<il G 5. cbor t q Fr1day@ I rJeeting today. F'as t, did t.i me c;me e Br o .. There Smi th was applce very soed pon t,he avila e, t little work abolt home I cot soe 1 :I! I ' |
