Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . sible. Sherman went onhis mission to England and on his arrival there commencedsending back notes for the various amounts Kianed to the dif-ferent people that did not have quite enough money to paytheir fare, each giving their note for the amount received, withthe promise to pay Father out of the first money earned aftertheir arrival in Utah. 158 PIONEERING THE WEST About four yea
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . sible. Sherman went onhis mission to England and on his arrival there commencedsending back notes for the various amounts Kianed to the dif-ferent people that did not have quite enough money to paytheir fare, each giving their note for the amount received, withthe promise to pay Father out of the first money earned aftertheir arrival in Utah. 158 PIONEERING THE WEST About four years after tlie date of the last note, Fathergave them to me to figure up the amount of the thirty notes,to see how close to the $100 the total would come, as he said itwould cost something to change the money to English. Wefound that the notes amounted to exactly $100. We could notfigure out how it had been done without the cost of exchangehad been divided to each note as interest in advance. Father had intended the money to act on the perpetualplan, by sending it back to help more, as soon as said he might be able to collect the most of it bycalling on each person owing him, but said probably they. Deseret News and Tithing Office Corner in 1860, A\ here Hotel Utali Now Stands. needed the money, and so told me to take these notes andburn them, which I did, but it destroyed his perpetual as-sistance plan. *Before Mother died a note for $50, which had been givenfor the same piMpose, Avas found and it was given to JohnMorgan for a life scholarship in his college, which he used topay a j^ainter that had been immigrated by it. A short ago a man, who said he had been secretaryof a theatrical organization, said he remembered counting the . PIONEERING THE WEST 159 door receipts and found a $10 gold piece among* the silvercoins and asked the doorkeeper how he got that, who said itwas given by Howard Egan for his entrance fee and to helpthem. In 1862 he was made a deputy
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