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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON 'lANNER. 5 his home and farm in Kirtland and unite his interests with those of the people in Missouri. "We arrived, " Myron, "in Missouri somewhere about the Soon after our arrival, I, with some of was sent into my brothers, up Clay County for the purpose of get a little wheat for the ting family. We were successful in obtain a for small the ing supply family and for seed. We sowed all that we could possiblv spare that fall, thus making calculation to stay in Far West. But the troubles came on, the mob pressed in upon U3, an I we were cut off from outside supplies and had to depend altogether upon what little corn we could get from our neighbors and brethren who were there before us. We were some distance from the mllls=-the nearest. I think, was five miles; says latter part of June, 1838. and there was another twelve miles from where long time after the trouble, we lived the trouble becoming more serious." on we lived. For a hulled corn, all the time IN FAR WEST. During the late summer and fall of 1838, the state militia had been gat hering about the city of Far West, demanding capit In the ulation of her people and their exodus from the state. event of their refusal to go, Boggs, to be exterminated, the militia of the state was as a they were, in the order of Governor Writers of Church history refer to The militia, however, mob militia. regularly organized and under the command of the sworn officers of the state; and while it committed the outrages and excesses of a mob, it acted under color of law and was properly entitled to the designation of a mobbing militia-not mob militia. Some of the leaders of this organization evidently preferred that the Saints leave the state, while others were brutal enough to undertake the work of extermination. They had engaged in a at Haun's mill, had broken in upon the inhabitants committed many of the barbarous practices of and West, the dark ages. Men were insulted in the streets, their wives out in their homes, and a reign of terror so prevailed in Far brutal massacre at Far raged West that the Saints, who at first themselves, were glad enough to days by removing to any state were determined to protect escape the horrors of those avil or country in which they might |
