[upside-down text]
Brother Thomas Cottam sends Love to you He wants to know if you
remember him He came out at Nauvoo with you & your Mother
[end of upside-down text]
Nothing done. The presidency are well except yourself and still in S L. County, But Earth & Hell are moved to get hold of them (as they have
no jurisdiction in heaven no one there helps the ring) Boremans
Court is to sit in St. George in March, Arthur Pratt takes the
place of Murderer Thompson. Armstrong is appointed Marshal of Beaver district again which we are satisfied with. I had an inter-
view with JohnHenry & H. J. Grant at St. George Conference. John
Henry was sommonds to Beaver Court to testify against Thomas Taylor have not heard the result. G Teasdale is in England & E Snow
& Thatcher in Mexico yett. The great sheep owner Daggs has 25000 sheep in Sanfrancisco Mountain I know him well. He is a
Mormon Eater & has tried to drive the Mormon heardsman out of the
country a short time since He drove 2500 sheep into Lot Smithsland
and tryed to claim them Lot was alone with his little boys
Daggs and his sheep Herder a Big Englishman undertook to whip Lot and drive him off or killhim with stones a pistol & winchester
came near breaking Lots Arm with a stone. Lot got his winchester
the twomen got Behind a building while Lot was in open ground
whenever they drew gun on Lot, he would get the first fire the
2 shotLotcut off one finger and stove the winchester all
to peases in the Hand of his Enemy, or it would have killed him dead
Brother Thomas Cottam sends Love to you He wants to know if you
remember him He came out at Nauvoo with you & your Mother end of upside-down text
Nothing done. The presidency are well except yourself and still in
S L. County, But Earth & Hell are moved to get hold of them (as they have
no jurisdiction in heaven no one there helps the ring) Boremans
Court is to sit in St. George in March, Arthur Pratt to take the
place of Murderer Thompson. Armstrong is appointed Marshal of
Beaver district again which we are satisfied with. I had an interview with JohnHenry & H. J. Grant at St. George Conference. John
Henry was sommonds to Beaver Court to testify against Thomas
Taylor have not heard the result. G Teasdale is in England & E Snow
& Thatcher in Mexico yet. The great sheep owner Duggs has
25000 sheep in Sanfrancisco Mountain I know him well. He is a
Mormon Eater & has tried to drive the Mormon heardsman out of the
country a short time since He drove 2500 sheep into LotSmiths land
and tryed to claim them Lot was alone with his little boys
Duggs and his sheep Herder a Big Englishman undertook to whipLot and drive him off or killhim, with stones a pistol & winchester
came near breaking Lots Arm with a stone. Lot got his winchester
the twomen got Behind a building while Lot came in open ground
whenever they drew gun on Lot, he would get the first fire the
2 shotLotcut off one finger and stove the winchester off
to peases in the Hand of his Enemy, or it would have killed him dead.
"Letter to Joseph Fielding Smith, 30 December 1886," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 3, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/g8k9