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394 John Tanner and His Family and had beuared the canon. The mob fled before us. Old Bro. Tubs on a rase mair and she run rite into their ranks. Those that wair behind in their compeny ware loded with sacks of bred and Tubs came with drawn sword. They litened up throing of the bred. Old Father Brase with his old plough horse foUod up and gethered up the sacks of bread as the mob had. fled. We linked our bridle rains so one man could hold several horses and we began hunting for the canon which was soon found by one of the horses that had dug it up with his foot. This was in frunt of a large hued log house. We then wanted the wheels and catrages. I asked a lady that was standing in the door if she could tell was whair the wheals ware that belonged with the cannon. She said no. Can you tell me whair the cateriges are. She said no, nor I don't care whair they are. At that moment I saw the catrage, the punchin or hewed me floar had srunk and they ware under the floar. I called 2 or 3 of my and told them to take up this floar and take out this caterag and it was don. The lady then cride and sed she would git us sum dinner. I thanked hur and told hur we could help our selves. We found plenty of corn for our horses and fed them. Ther was a good milk house wall filed, and several stand of bees and with my sword I split open a couple of stand of bees and with Father Brase sacks of bread. We made a very good dinner We took a couple of prisners and prest a wagon on which men . to carey the canon. The prisners told our Capt. that his men fought like devles. No, said the Capt., you mistake. They fite like Angels. We got back that nite to our camp. When the troops ware coming in to Far West I went with George M. Hinkle to make a treaty of peas of sum kind as I understod the troops had agread to meet us at a certain point about 10 or 12 miles out from Far West. We went there and waited for them and they did not come to that point at all but avoided us an was within 5 miles of the city on the march when we first discoverd them. We could not pass them directly on the road and had to go around on the rite and travle 15 miles to their 5 with our plough horses and mairs with foald. We lost sum coalts on the road, but got in in time to form in line to stand of our inemy. What became of Hinkle I dont no unles he went into the inemys camp. I no our men ware formed into line by Joseph Smith and while they the troops ware forming we with arms at present ware marched rite down on to them and they could not hold their men. They run like scart sheep and there wasent a gun fierd and we went back into camp. The next call from Hinkle was to arms wen every man flew to his exspeting to fite. We ware marched on to the publick square and surrounded by their gards and requared to surrender and lay down our arms. We had no knoledg of this move untill it was don. When their arms ware plast around us, then our Proffit Joseph and Sidney, Hyrum and others ware taken down into their camp under the sentance of deth. I stood near to old general Clark when he sed we now had our chois to gards