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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