Show u From From Pago One 2 BRIGHAM YOUNG the band banzi was requested to play by the people of the tov towns townsand townsand s sand and villages near which the Mormons Mor Mor- mona mons ons camped The members of oC tho the band earned money and and- provisions lons In inthis this way Once they played prayed for fora a pail pall of honey and again for eIght bushels of corn Before Defore the band playe In any town it lit t was necessary for Clayton who was manager of band to ge get the permission of or Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young Bottom In June the rain stopped but then ther the mosquitoes became a distracting pest On June 13 1846 Clayton that they were very troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- some there being so many of them and so bloodthirsty Plague and fever now attacked the time camp for they were in a marshy section of the country countrymen on i the east bank of the tine Missouri river known as Misery Bottom So many of the Mormons Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons died that It H was was' to dig graves fast enough to oury nury them mem There was much grumbling and the usual friction which results when personalities are thrown together most of the grumbling was because of short rations In the summer the Mormons arrived ed near the present s site ite of of Bluffs Iowa and established themselves themselves them them- selves in there and ana across the Missouri l river on the present present present pres pres- ent site of Florence Nebraska Here the band played for lor the Indians who were practically the ithe only inhabitants of or the country and nd pleased them so much that they raised ten dollars and ten cents as a token of or their ap ap- ap- ap predation At Winter Quarters the tine people built log cabins and dugout and planted crops Ifor for it was the thc plan of or Brigham Young to use hU tempo tempon- ary location as a halfway settlement until he lie had succeeded In t transport transporting ing fag all his lila people ito their indefinite home near the Rocky mountains Under his direction a flour flou mill t to tJ grind their corn was built and hr he also se set the people to work worl building a n council house They hey tur- tur I ed cd washboards and willow baskets which were wel e sold in the tine nearest Missour Missouri Mis Mis- lis- lis sour towns But life was vos difficult The lack at or vegetables resulted in black leg scurvy provisions were scarce and the prospects of or settIng getting fresh supplies before the cro crops crop's I could grow were slight At Atthe the tho camp in lii Winter Quarters Brigham Young received his first and one of or his few v revelations It told toM the saints to do all that Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham Young had already urged them to do and thereby approved all that thai he had already don done dono donfor for their wel wel- fare The Time revelation also promised that the Lord would save the Mormons Mar Mor mons from hardship I The Mormons not experience jany any of the melodramatic Indian horrors which made the early carly development development development devel devel- of tho the west a subject of fiction fiction fiction fic fic- fic- fic tion for so many mammy years ThIs was due clue to Brigham Youngs Young's policy polley of catering to the tine wishes and respecting the time rights of ithe tue original Inhabitants inhabitants tants taints of the country He developed their good wIlt will by his gifts gUts and his consideration tine the result was that only two horses were lost to the Indians Indians In- In in the tine original Ori Utah pioneer party and no men women women or 01 children chil chU- dren were killed While the saints were encamped at Winter Vinter Captain James Allen AHen of the United Stales tates arm army rode into camp one day In June 1846 and had a conference with Dl Young Captain Capt Allen Alien showed Brigham 1 Young the request of or President Polk for five hundred Mormons to serve in the time war war Mexico which had just begun War m mind and Politics once more luck was against the Mormons They had expected to find territory in the west vest which was I not under the tho jurisdiction of time the United States and to establish there therean I I an fin independent theocracy ot of their own While they were the United States captured all aill the tine available avail avail- ruble able territory from Mexico and the Ome Mormons found themselves by tho time time lime they reached Utah once more under the government they were tn tn- to leave behind them Ithem t I Tho request for five hundred Mormons Mor Mor- mons to join jolin the time Mexican war Wal was not unwelcome to the tine Mormons at atthe time the time and amid was the direct result ot of their own solicitation In his letter letter let let- ter of appointment to J. 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C Little as ase e eastern tern representative of time the Mom Mor mon church Brigham Young had written on January 20 1816 1546 If It tour our government shall offer au any facil facil- for emigrating to the time n westen coast embrace those facilities it if possible as a a. wise Ise and anti faithful man So Little called calle on on Pr President Polk in hi Washington Time The president was particularly anxious to conciliate the Mormons at the moment t. t The The United was was at war with Mexico ana ani Br Britain tain was disputing the r c the tho United S States State atoo to Or gon gona a ti rn of l with Great Britain Bi was fear Wa Vi President Polk did not Wis' Wis and 1 I largo large body of or Mormons in th h to become allies of either Ct Cit or Great Britain Tho I their part were anxious to 05 gc get and amid th the opportunity to l hundred men not only at the tc ex of of the government but hut With v ih the t. t advantage of route appealed appeal to Little and lie he k kG e etha that tha it would appeal also to el Young alii It was Little who wino urged Pre r j J Polk to enlist the Mormons MormonS' S1 v i t they were thai than thane e wait walt until they had arrived i in n fornia Brigham Young VL VIas 2 gr grateful for fOT tho favor President POl conferred upon his j eople by Ing five hundred of them with uT th 6 understanding that they would woul 1 n iT fight in Mexico but would proceed L California th that tb-at t t the c Mormons vote ir the Democratic ticket at the ne next Il ci election Seeking a n Settlement In three days day the tho Mormon Battal Bati ion was mustered and ready t to march Brigham Young ordered t tn tia men to ta take re their Bibles and Beok- Beok of Mormon n and if they had any Plat Ing cards to burn thorn them The thi vl tiiu-vl that interested Brigham Young ve Vey r much about this enlistment Wet wa v as th m thi allowance the United States made in advance advance- o of two forty-two doll dollars am for c on onman each h hman man for clothing This amounted to t twenty one thousand dollars for th the 1 five hundred men an and most mont of t tins timi ls money money- went to their families or to th the church treasury ry In la addition the men sent their salaries as 23 soldiers back bade to their families and to to their church At the tine end of their period of en ec the Mormon l Battalion Was x mustered out In California Some Sone of C the company r reenlisted ed in San Diego Diego Die Die- and amid built th that t town down go up Oth Others rs proceeded to northern California where they heard that their br brethren breth ren had established themselves in th the valley of or the Great Salt Lake and ana they they- proceeded there to join them Brigham Young held the semiannual semi annual conference rence of the church at Winter Whiter Quarters on April G 6 1847 and the next morning he left Winter Wimer Quarters with a of or one oe hun hn dred and forty-eight forty of his tl people to find a place of settlement in ill th the far west The party was made nj ny mainly of sturdy men but brit three women accompanied them One of ot these was Clarissa Decker one of Brigham Youngs Young's wives an aa- other was wag Harriet Page Wheeler Young one of or the wives of ot Brigham brother Lorenzo and the other was wao Ellen Saunders Kimball one of or fie Ule wives of ot Heber C C. C Kimball limbaU V T children were in the party The train consisted of two seventy prairie schooners thre ninety horses t two fifty wo mules sixty six oxen and there were also nineteen cows seventeen dogs a few cats and some chickens To be Continued |