[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday May the 9th 1847. Clear & coolrather unfavorable for gardening.
This morning Br. Titus Billings & family move into one of my houses to live awhile. They were in company with me while journying from Mt Pisgah to the Bluffs and were uncommonly kind, benevolent & attentive to me, at that time when I was so much worn out with sickness poverty and distress
Meeting at the stand as usual. Parley spoke in the fore-noon on the subject of the stupidity of the people in observing the council & instructions of the Twelve & their heedlessness about their cattle in exposing them to the Omahas also in not working according to the instructions of the Epistle of the Twelve &c & touched very plainly on the dullness of the people, about as it exhisted. Said there was more to be said and requested a general attendance in the after noon. He also disabused some reports current that he gave council different from Brighams policy &c
In the after noon both Parley & Taylor spoke at length on the same things after which several votes were put all carried unanimously, viz: to obey council, To work in union & not individually, to finish the stockading & none go West till all stockade was done To sustain the poor & in short to work according to the pattern. Council was given to herd the cattle more closely & secure them against the Omahas and a company of ten tough Rangers to be raised to guard the out skirts of the Herds to prevent Omaha depredations. When I was voted capt of the same & to raise the men who were to be well mounted & armed so as to defend ourselves against them if necessary & whip them if caught in mischief.
Ten different individuals then were called for to volunteer to pay the Rangers each to pay one man.
The names of those who volunteered to pay the Rangers were
1 P. P. Pratt 6 Alpheus Cutler
2 Danl Russel 7 Jos Young.
3 John Taylor 8 Isaac Morley
4 David Boss 9 D. D. Grant
5 Danl Spencer 10 John Neff.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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