| 429 Just Let them give us a Call and We Will See You in any Way that You Want Goo or Bad the rules of our band We Want The Mormons Mus quit travling down the Branch Way or you will hear the never more preach the for well Surmant to the Later Day Saints and the Hog thief of oregon and How County We in Clud all Hog thiefs in each County fulton Oregon Howell Couny."
Following this note is drawn the outline of a pistol. Notice number two is as follows:
"howell Co Mo. July 20 1883
we Unders Stand that you say that When the Shilow boyes Comes this time You are redy to Steal all of the hogs that you can get to. Smith is the big gun but we will take the old haire Cutter and You Can Shoot your big gun the Mormon Can leave heare hin pese if they wish to if they dont leave Wea Can drive them off buy the forse of armies and we want Youens to Quit traviln down this hollar if you dont quit we will whip the . . . them Mormons amos Smith Can Sae at at home withe the reast of the Mormon and if They Want to reite to the boyes diret youre leater Wrem fork oregon Co Mo have then fixed good We the Shilow boye Grandpap and his 50 sons."
The Amos Smith spoken of is a young man, not a member, but a friend. . .
Saturday: the 28th, Mr. William Jones and I walked down the "Branch Way" referred to, and found where some one had been lying in the grass, and stuck under the brush near by was a green hickory club, three feet long, three fourths of an inch in diameter at the smaller end, and two inches at the larger. Near by was another place where some one had hidden behind a bunch of bushes, and had a way cut out to the road, evidently to shoot through. This is on the way where we would be expected to pass, going from Bro. James R. Jones' to Shiloh, a week ago, and we thought the work appeared to be about a week old. I wish to say in behalf of the citizens of the country, that the better class do not indorse [endorse] such proceedings.
This spirit of opposition was also rampant at the same time in Northern Texas. Elder George Montague had arranged to meet Mr. C. A. Worley, of the Baptist Church, in discussion, near Manchester, Texas, August 7, 1883. Threats of violence were freely indulged in. Elder Heman C. Smith, leaving the scenes of excitement in Northern Arkansas, had hurried there to be with Elder Montague during the ordeal. Elder Smith wrote from Oenaville, Texas, August 23, giving the following account of the conflict:
On Tuesday, the 7th, we repaired to the arbor prepared for the debate; but Mr. Worley failed to appear. Two messengers were dispatched for
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