[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday April 20th 1847. This morning earley there was a meeting at the stand of the Bishops Council & Parley & Taylor to take into consideration the best way to herd the cattle secure from the aggression of the Omahas. It was decided for the Bishop of each ward to form the cattle in his ward into a herd & appoint a captain over those who are with the herd, all to be well armed with guns &c to defend the cattle against them
I was ordered to take ten men on horse back and reconoitre the country and see if there were any Omahas lying in their hiding places and if so to scourge them severely.
The Bishop were also ordered to ascertain how many cattle had been killed by the Omahas and make report to the committee appointed last night, so that it might be brought before the agent and Big Elk.
After the meeting I proceeded to raise the company & went about ten oclock & reconoitred to the South of town an the large flat plains & bottom land, untill about three oclock & then came home, not finding any Omahas. We were armed with horse whips &c to give them a severe flogging in case we found. I was very sick with the head ache when I came home.
To day I appointed William Miller in the police as the guard was rundown so low that I could not get along without more help. It was the same Miller that was taken to Carthage for Brigham(on the [Blank] 18th [crossed out])
This afternoon I was around as usual after dinner
Late in the night I was awaked by Br Thos Clark saying that a large boddy of Indians were in town, that they had divided into two divisions and went in[.] I immediately got up and had the police call up men enough to watch them. We padroled town for some hours but found none although there were some seen but not as many as Br Clark supposed to be.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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