Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-21

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mained there hunting for them, till
q, the Mormons believed, traitor
among them informed them where
their horses were. Ihe Californians
Immediately armed the mise Ives to the
teeth, and came upon the herders OF
the horses so unexpectedly that they
only got away with four, which they
happened to have saddled. The
Californians took the remaining eleven,
crossed over and pursued their jour.
ney. The day that we were at the
! ferry, woman crossed at the lower
ferry with -L0sses.-Ths next
night her best horse was taken, and
though she spent several days search
ing, she had to go on without it.
When we went into the bottom, the
Mormons came out to stop us, and
told us that that was ferry that the
Mormons had established for their
own use, that they had put off cross
ing for month to accommodate the
emigration, that there were then
twenty-four fifties in the bottom wait
ing, and that no Gentle would be al
lowed to cross until every Mormon
had passed over. This was a sumner
to Capt. Dunn's plans, as we'll as ours,
for though he was one of the apostles,
he was running away from his fifty
and to do it he was passing himself
off as an Oregon emigrant. Alter a
short consultation, we decided to go
on to the ferry. Before we turned
down to the ferry we were stopped by
two fifties of armed men, and ordered
to turn back. They said they had
been there, then, more than a month,
and they would be fooled no longer |;
that they would shoot any Gentle
that attempted to cross before they
did. We pacified them by telling
them that we knew that their claims
were perfectly just, and that we only
wanted to go to the ferry to make ar
rangements to cross when our proper
time came. With the ferryman we used
such arguments as with the help of
an extra dollar to each wagon and
each team procured for us the promise
that Is soon as the regular days for.
ferrying WAS done we should be next
over. Being full moon and cloudless
nights, it could have been done with
perfect safety, but the hands kicked
against nigh t-work, so we were put off
till morning. In the morning we got
all the wagons and teams over, except
my team, before the lazy Mormons
came to tow the boat up. AS ! was
towing, / Was left till four o'clock.
then stopped towing, kept my team in
readiness and as the boat touched
land rushed it aboard, then gave the
boat a backset into the stream. The
Mormons shouted to pitch the Gentle
and his team overheard. No threat
of shooting was made, till Bishop
Kimble came running to the landing
and ordered them to get the guns and
shoot the Gentle. Before they could
do this we were safely out of reach,
but not till many Q threat and Latter
day-Saint's malediction had reached
our ears.
Now to return, rs We were in the
midst of a Mormon crowd, it might
have been esteemed disrespectful to
have pulled up and left, and as we
wanted to hear what the Apostles
Dunn and Bell had 10 say, we stayed,
and got seat directly in front Of the
speakers stand. Bell and Dunn failed
to favor US with specimen Of their
oratorical skill, but our dark minds
were enlightened and cheered by the
eloquent efforts of several others. 1t
finally came to the Bishops turn. He
took for his text "The Earth is the
Lords, and the Fullness Thereof" and
from that he argued that rs they were
the Lords people, whatsoever was in
the earth was theirs, and they had .
right to take it aud use it. Though
his style Of speaking was by no means
agreeable, yet he clearly explained the
doctrines of his text, and having
enumerated these facts, the taking of
the horses to help the weak brethren
to reach their appointed places in their
distant mountain homes, became q
very praise-worthy act, since they were
taken from the Gentiles who had no
right to . habitation upon the face OF
the Earth. He showed also the enor-
nifty of the sin OF betrsying one an.
other and causing them to lose the
booty they had gotten SO securely and
needed so much. They showed the
impudent audacity of the Gentiles in
asking, and the absurdity of the Nor
mons in permitting them, to cross the
Missouri, when so many Of the good
brethren had been waiting a full
month. "My BRETHREN" said he,
"these things ought not SO to be /;
they must and will be attended to
when we get to Salt Lake." With
feelings more easily surmised than ex-
pressed, left the camp-ground and
shouldered my rifle and went to look
after the cattle. / found that the
man who was guarding them had gone
to Mormon encampment, a half mile
away and, was so much enraged with
what was going on there that he had
entirely forgotten his buriness.' From
him l learned where he had left the
stock. Going there I struck the trail
and followed it two or three miles
Strayed or stolen, found them in q
concealed valley where l would not
have found them if / had not followed
their track.
Monday morning, by little extra
exertion on our part and the help OF 8
sham stampede, we succeeded in get
ting the lead again of the whole Kim