Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20

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host for in few days after we had
starred our team pulled our wagon with
about 700 lbs on It with ease and we
helped many good teams up the steep
hills and / do not think we had 70 be
helped once.
COAXED WITH CORN.
Rerore starring Up a hill we always
pa.Vc our steers an ear OF corn and II II
v5as very steep mother would g ahead
nud hold out some ears OF corn 10 thetn
and YOU ought to see them pun. When
We got to Bonaparte in Iowa we stopped
for about two months and iathef got
to woik at wagon making ana sot a
GOOD yoke Of cattle and PROVISIONS ana
we started Tor Council Butts
we suffered much from sickness WINE
i'm Bonaparte. Father and some OF the
resi- OF us were taken down with me
fever and ague and ! can tel you
shook us up good. But we had many
friends while there, especially IN one
instance when my brother william anu
ana two other boys by the name or
Mcdonald went IN swimming IN the
river The boys OF the town found out
that we were Mormons ana IluusHt
they would have some fun with US 50
they took our clothes ana scatterth
theu, about and bedaubed them WIN
Donald boys saw them and got out OF
the water as soon as possible ana
,ttcbod into them and in about 10 MIN
utes licked their hullies and drove the
rest on After that they were very
friendly toward US for one OF them salu g,
10 me next day You d,a Just .'s So, ~,
and that he thought the Mornons Were
inst as good as white people II they
tust behaved themselves H..
we got 10 Council Bluffs In due time
hut did not cross the river We puiit
a log cabin OF one room ana lblu VIZ
lows on top for o roof ana coVereu II
win dirt and got ready for winter
80 Rut we all took sick father
with fever and ague and the rest OF us
with scurvy and black leg. MY broth-
or Washington died there ana my
father made him nice comm CUT vi
the wagon bed and he and my hrother
V-UIlor1 carried him on their shoulders
,',ross inc Missouri river. covered with
masses az ice. and buried him IN tho
grave yard where many OF the saints
were laid 10 rest. having died from
sickness and exposure.
GAVE OUTFIT no VETERAN.
our rattle died that winter and left
ms without team. Father went into
Missouri 20 town called Weston win
many others to try and make a raise
Father got work az leaVenWorth ana
afterwards was foreman OF the govern
mcnt wagon shops We stayed thorf
about year and got a good hi-2 GU.
and started 10 the salt Lake valley but
when we got to council Blufs he was
advised 90 let one Of the brethren nave
his outfit TO get TO the Salt Lake valley
az be- was very old. lie did so and
we stopped az Davis camp ana ihtusr
and William started wagon shop In
Eancevluo About that time the Cali
Far.r hrtl-0 ont and MF
got another good outfit and started FOR
Salt Lake on the 17th day ~ June 1850.
DEATHS on THE PLAINS.
We had very good time crossing tho
plains. hunting buffalo and game when
we We're cumpci TO rest. About the
only thing that annoyed us young folks
along the plains was that the chol ma
: was very bad and many died ana the
| old folks got very religious and would
| not let ms dance az night and sing negro
! songs but we had good time when
! We got tho chance.
| The cholera was very bad all along
/ the Platte bottoms. There were thou
( sands of the cmigrunts goiug to Call
J forui1 who died on the plains. In some
/ places you could jump from one grave
/ 90 the othor and In some graves there
were great holes az the head and foot
/ where the wolves had dug down and
got the DOulcs. Iherc were also many
Z Saints who died I think there muut
! have been an average ~ about IS 90
every company Of N wagons We had
/ 60 ford the Platte river three or four
! times.
on one occasion ! camc pretty near
/ tclns drowned. ! was driving the OK
/ team and my cattle went 20 lltuo TOO
I far 20 the right and we an went down
/ tho stream together wagon, oxen and
D N.... 90 B.
I oXcn's bows and kept my head out or
/ water until We struck another BAN, ana
! wc got across nh right There was "a
/ Young man by tho name OF Frank cum
. r'urh1w who drove ono - our teruaa
/ WHO MISC got nearly drowned I'm the
/ Platte river but some OF t1e mon throw
him rcpe ana he caught n ne he was
( going down tho last time and they
pulled him ashore under water lie
| had no HE In him whom they got hin,
I % shore but they rolled the water cut
Of him and worked with him until they
| hvUuuht him 10 life