4th I spent the fore part of the Day obtaining grafts & puting in to my
offi orchard Br Nebeker put them [in] for me he put in 90 buds most
of them were choice fruit from the states the remainder of the
day was spent in the office. we learned soon after ariving at the
office that one of our clerks viz that Jonathan Grimshaw was
about to leave us for England could not stand the hard times &
did not know whether Mormonism was true or not so he is going
home but he has taken a vary honorable Course in all his business
& deal[ings] I learned from the New York Herald of June 24th 1856
[FIGURE] that James J Strang was shot by 2 men who had been
his own party one ball lodged in the Head went in near the
nose & the other in the spine of the back. Also during the Evening
there was a row in our street & one of the surveyors a pole
was nearly killed
4th President Young went up to Feramore Littles we had a cold
rain storm in the valley. Robert Scholls & my son Wilford lay on
the mountains all night in the cold I spent the day in the office on
the History [FIGURE] I wrote a letter For the Standard
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we are living in one of the most important Generations that man ever lived on Earth & we should write an ofaccount of those important transactions which are takeing place before our Eyes in fulfillmen of the prophesies & the revelation of God there is a great flood of Revelations fulfillig in our day & as they are transpiring before our eyes we want a record made of them if the power & blessings of
we are living in one of the most important Generations that man ever lived on Earth & we should write an ofaccount of those important transactions which are takeing place before our Eyes in fulfillmen of the prophesies & the revelation of God there is a great flood of Revelations fulfillig in our day & as they are transpiring before our eyes we want a record made of them if the power & blessings of
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