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Show John Tanner and His 400 was do other men and must by whair I could do best. If he could others he had the same chance. wall Wall you can load up seys he. Wall now do you want thes other to load under my contract, if so they will do it, otherwise they will buying for as men Family as other plase. They are my friends and you told them that they better. You desieved them. Wall fech them in. I did so and as they went to loading the flour a man a merchent whose goods was under atachment and sed to me, I am broke. My goods are under atach ment. I want you to come and take what you want, pay me what you can. They have to be sold. If you can give the wholes ail price in N. Y., wall if not pay what you can aford. I told the other murchent and he sed I am not broke thank God. Thus I feal I was able to save one half the cost of our winters flour to the suffering saints. While the camp was on Shugar Creek the brotheren on that side of the river ware very libral with their crops and suplies and many of them paid their subcription on the N auvo hous to help their suffering brethering in the city and ade the travling camp after they new the N auvo House would not be built. I gave a gold wach for that use and a libral shair of my crops and one good wagon besides halling for other at varous time as surcumstanses requaired. I had a fat cow jest before the troops took posesion of Far West and the mob was stealing cattle and I feared they would git hur and I kiled hur for my one use and sent my brother to Far West for salt to put on the meet and told the boy to keep clear from sum points of brush near the road and if eny of the mob com after him to let the mair'run. She was a very fine mair. The boy saw two men coming after him and he run the best he could and rode up to the door and sed ther was 2 men after the mair. My wife lay down hur babey and sprung to the door ontied the other horse that was tide to the wagon and took both halters in hur hands and stood on the door step and held the horses. There was 2 men rode up and said the mob has not got your horses yet. No said she nor I dont mean they shall git them. One of the men had got down off from his horse and he looked at the other as much as to say shall I take them by forse from the womans hand and he did not do it for shame sake, or sum other cause God only nose. The mob was takeing boys off from horses all the time when they got a chanse. My wife was a woman of grate fortitude and I was not there at the time. She would do hur best to save the team at all hazerds. load at an could do no |
