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Show ' ( - 2?- One day I helped a trusty to kill a pig and we were quite late in finishing up. Those inside had all their supper and gone to their cells. The guard took us down in the basement under the guards room and guve us a square meal. We had bread and cheese and beef. The bread served inside was cold, sour, light bread with the exception of the two days in the week when they gave us corn b~ead. My cousin, George T. Holladays, and wife came to see me and brought me a two quart fruit jar of fruit. I put it in the head guards' room for keeping. In a day or two I went to get my fruit and they said it was gone. Someone had stole it. Soon after I went into the pen Lars Augustson had a daughter down at Vernal and he sent f or me. I went and talked to h~n, and wrote a letter to his family. Augustson and Edward Thomas were both sick with pneurnonia. Every day or two they would send for me to come and see them. 1~ time was up on Sunday, the fourth of December, but they said they didn't allow five days off each month on a three month senctence. Taylor went to a lawyer. While Taylor was gone the warden came back and said they allowed the five days off but as there was a cost of $80.00 on my side I would have to be taken before the comissioner and I'd have to wait till Monday morning. Edward 'fi1omas' time was up and he sent for me to help him. He was so anxious to get away he didn't know wat to do. He said, ~I'll be at the commissioner's office in the morninr,." So Monday morning the guards took me up to the conmissioner. The cormnissioner asked me how much property I had and how many children I had. I told him twelve. Be counted up what my property would come to and he said you haven't enough so I didn't have to pay the fine. I was released. I went up to H\lntsville then I took the train for Priee where my brotherin- law, Charles A. Nye, was waiting to take me home. We arrived home a f ew days before Christmas. I <Dmmenced to labor in the Sunday School as 1st assistant to Charles H. Glines, He had chosen me November 20, 1995vwhile I was away. I labored in this position until October 20, 1895 when I was chosen as Sunday School Su.perintendent with Don B. Col ton as first assistant. In April 1893 I attended conference at Salt Lake City and was present at the dedication of the Salt Lake 'I'em.ple. It was a wondeful thing. It was i nspiring to listen to the testimonies or the leaders of the church. Wilford Woodruff was President. In December, 1893 I was chosen to represent the Maeser Sunday School to ta.ke a Sunday School course at the B. Y. U. The School opened on the 4th of .Tanuary, 1894. A twenty weeks course was given. J.P. Rudy from Glines, Albert G. Goodrich from Naples and I were chosen. We all three boarded with Sister Holdon, my brother Charley's mother-in-law. J.P. Rudy only 10 weeks. A.G. Goodrich and I stayed the 20 weeks. We attended April Conference. The school was held until about the 4th of .Tune. |
