The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-30


road Of four hundred miles. Our
living consisted generally OF bread,
bacon. coffee without milk or sugar,
and molasses, such as is used In the
States to kill flies with. We used the
" self. rising -four" for biscuits, but
our cooks were not even respectable
amateurs. and made q terrible mess ID
of it. Half the time our bread was
/. Missouri bake i. G.. burnt on top |
and at the bottom and raw in the ?
middle. The water supply was so |
irregular, too, that most of the way
we only made one route a /
day,v which implies no dinner,
aud to aggraYate the case further, we
seldom had enough at breakfast and I
supper was our only full meak9 AT /
night all were at leisure. The mti les
were fed, turned out, and given IN
| charge Of the night-herder. The boys
| gathered around the FIRE, -.whIle-the
/ cooks took their time and prepared
/ hushel or so Of biscuit, and we ate as
long as we pleased. But in:the mora
ing an was hurry The mules were
done eating before the men began.
/ The wagon-boss hurried the cooks so
they did not prepare enough, and at
| the shout of grub pile, every man
went for p" his plate and tim. LIZ was
taIl grab game, and as. these o
nlainsmen can eattwice as fast as l
can, I often got ~undery way with
| scant breakfast. But after. a time
got tired of this, and when | learned
that but one = route was Intended
for that day, managed to seerete a
biscuit or two, and take lunch on
mule-b back about noon Butoalter We
got west of the Twenty-mile Desert
| we began to have game occasionally
that is, jack.rabbits and sage-hens.
i When we got far enough to meet Salt
Lake teams, with freshly dried peaches
of this years crop, we invested largely
therein, and our cooks made a large
batch of peach pies. The materials
were -four, baeen-grease, peaches, and
the molasses above mentioned, and
the pies were cooked 10 a tin plate
inside of a baking kettle. Iwish l
: c3uld send you one by express. i
l1Would like to have it presented to the
( High School Museum. On another
occasion 1 got four eggs at rancho
and determined on a custard pie.
Having no milk made a pretty good
imitation out of -four and water, in
which [ beat up the eggs; and as the
i
put the sweetening In the crust,
and cooked as above described.
! 1t was not a success go Our
favorite dinner, when we could
f get. the meat, was fried ham and
: "sinkers" But perhaps you don't
! know what those are. Here is the
recipe: Flour, I'D tibltum; water,
} quaint. suff. soda, a spoonful. If you
? have it, If not, little pinch of ashes.
} Make in thin cakes and fry rapidly in
| hot grease-long- handled frying pan
Death balls and stone- binders /"
are made In the same way with the
Y addition to the first of the hylkillel
l molasses and the second of plenty OF
S saleratus. L trust your lady readers
d will properly appreciate the above
0 recipes, as believe they are not
y found in Leslie" als-s rs.9 R ~
d For sleeping purposes we Joined
blankets two and two. sleeping or
y gunny sacks, generally under the
k wagon, with two blankets over us
o. which kept us quite comfortable, ex-
}, oept few nights ON the nous,
< tains, in which | suffered Will
u cold. From Benton to Echo Canor
II no dew was felt, from which l con
e elude that part of our route would
y average 5000 feet nearer Heayenthar
e extreme dFyness Of the air probably
e enabled me to endure the cold muct
q better, My partner was a tall, lank
e Mormon, native of Mississippi, "a
a tough cuss from Provo" his compan.
S ions called him. After a few days
I travel, he grew quite confidential, and
e told me his whole history. He joined
I the Confederate army the, first call
o fought till he was tired, and allowed
y himself to be captured In Hoods re.
7 treat from Nashville; took the am
: nesty oath, for which his girl in Mis-
0 sissippi WOUND MT have nothIni more
n to say to him." when he took huge
! disgust at the States, and came out
b and Joined the Mormons in 1865. He
e has nice house and lot and two good
0 looking wives in the Twentieth. Ward
!, in this place, and considers himself
y settled. / should think he would.
Considering myself an outsider, 1
z had kept quiet on the subject OF
G polygamy; but one evening after we
were all well acquainted | was read
i ing aloud from an account of Chi
!, eago divorce case, when a Mormon
b boy remarked THAT was the benefit
i of polygamy; they had nothing OF
J that sort" :" Polygamy would be all
right said another, " if they only
I wouldn't pull hair. But the women
= will pull hair any way you fix itP'
And TO my amazement furious de.
/ bate sprung up on the subject, the
o party being about equally divided,
: pro and con. / noticed that the Kim
:, ball boys were silent My partner
i directed my attention to them, and
: after retiring to bed informed me they
S were sons of different wives, that
e their mothers were cousins. and when
9 living together, according to report.
f indulged in almost daily battles
} When l got well acquainted with
! them [ found them much smarter
than | at first supposed from their
Q sophisticated appearance. They
grew very communicative, and when
ever the roads would admit Of it,
g would fa Ii back and walk beside my
: team, asking every imaginable ques-
: tion about life, manners and schools
} 10 the States. When We reached
Parley's Park, twenty five miles east
OF the city, we camped, near their
sather' 8, who'keepsa large stone no.
:, tel, on the stage road. Our mess
J, with the boys. Willie and Burton
nF1!!m6ail; to- buy milk and butter at
, hImball s rancho. Kimball is . plu
rallst, has two wives living in the
> house with him, both young and
? Handsome, and quite a number of
I beautiful children. Burton's mother
! lives in a long log house, two hun
, bred yards from the hotel, and VIII
! lies mother lives in the city, and. i.
! is said, takes in spinning and weaving