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Show ' - m a t Incidents. Continued. Captain Smith kindly furnished the elders horses to ride and carry their things 25 miles, to the main settlements in Carson Valley. We put up with a brother Nixon, a merchant Here we read in the papers of the and death of Parley J?. Pratt, who was killed in Arkansas Ar-kansas by one McLane of San Francisco,' who stabbed him to the heart The next day we took dinner with brother and sister Lawson. He said he had no money but he had a heart and made elder Hawkins Haw-kins a present of a new suit of missionary clothes, then accompanied accom-panied us a few miles, calling on everybody wc met to "hand ouer some of -their. loose change," to the Sandwich Island elders. (Brother Lawson had been on a mission himself and knew what we needed. ) Simon Baker donated five dollars Charles Walker nine dollars. Brother Nixon told us to put our things into his wagons and he would haul them across the mountains moun-tains to Murphy's, a distance of a hundred miles, where he was going for merchandise. To Be Continued. |