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the ostensible design of destroying the Latter-day Saints, according to the reports that reached us from the East.
4th
He saith:-
To the best of my recollection there was no United States Judge here in the latter part of 1857
5th
He saith:-
As usual emigrant trains were passing through our Territory for the West. - I heard it rumored that a company from Arkansas en-route to California had passed through the City.
6th
He saith:-
No. -not that I know ofI never heard of any such thing, and certainly no such order was given by the then Acting-Governor.
7th
He saith:-
Yes.- Counsel and advice was given to the citizens not to sell grain to the emigrants to feed their stock, but to
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let them have sufficient for themselves if they were out. The simple reason for this was that for several years our crops had been short, and the prospect was at that time that we might have trouble with the United States Army then en-route for this place, and we wanted to preserve the grain for food. The citizens of the Territory were counselled not to feed grain to their own stock. No person was ever punished or called in question for furnishing supplies to the emigrants, within my knowledge.
8th
He saith:-
I did not learn anything of the attack or destruction of the Arkansas company until sometime after it had occurred; then only by floating rumors.
9th
He saith:
Within some 2 or 3 months after the massacre he called at my Office and had much to say with regard to the Indians, their being stirred up to anger and threatening the settlements of the whites, and then commenced
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giving an account of the massacre, I told him to stop, as from what I had already learned by rumor. I did not wish my feelings harrowed up with a recital of details.
10th
He saith:-
No. He did not call with John D. Lee, and I have no recollection of his ever speaking to me nor I to him concerning the massacre or anything pertaining to the property.
11th
He saith:-
No. I never gave any directions concerning the property taken from the company of emigrants at the Mountain Meadow Massacre; nor did I know anything of that property or its disposal, and I do not to this day except from public rumor.
12th
He saith:-
Because another Governor had been appointed by the President of the United States, and was then on the way here to take my place;
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and I did not know how soon he might arrive and because the United States Judges were not in the Territory. Soon after Governor Cumming arrived I asked him to take Judge Cradlebaugh who belonged to the Southern District with him and I would accompany them with sufficient aid to investigate the matter and bring the offenders to Justice.
13th I did receive a communication from Isaac C. Haight or John D. Lee who was then a farmer for the Indians.
14th I have not. I have made diligent search for it but cannot find it.
15th He saith: I did to Isaac C. Haight who was then the acting President at Cedar City.
16th He saith: Yes.-It was to let this Company of emigrants and all companies
