[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday Sept 5th 1847. This morning a calf belonging to Jesse Mc[.] Causlin was in the stray pen & he refused to redeem it and abused the law and the police & so we killed it and divided out to the police and applied it on their wages. This was done to caution others from doing as he did which was not uncommon
At meeting today I was told B. L. Clapp one if the first Presidents of the Seventies on the stand spoke very predudicial of the police & guard and the killing of the calf and inflamed the minds of the disaffected to a high rate against us
President Joseph Youngs also was by some construed in the same light.
Joseph Taylor my brother in law having returned from California came to see me. He came home with Genl Carney [Kearney] as one of his guards. The Genl chose his guards all from among the Mormons as the most faithful
Went out on guard with 7 men[.] I & W. Meeks went south on the bottom and came home at 3 oclock in the evening and attended the Council
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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