In explaining Mormonism I said that the gospel did not debar a person from any pleasure he desired to enjoy. Brothers Pratt and Stewart followed and spoke on the first principles of the gospel. After meeting was dismissed the leader of the disturbers met us at the door. He asked me to go and take a drink with him. I told him I did not drink liquor. "Then you go back on your own words, do you?" he questioned. I asked him what he meant. He said "While preaching you made the statement that your religion allowed you any pleasure you desired." "Yes sir, but drinking whisky is no pleasure to me and I do not desire to drink any." "Well, do you ever eat anything," he asked. "Yes, we are all good eaters." "Well then come with me to the hotel and I will pay for a good dinner for as many of you as will come." Brother Pratt and some others went along. We had a good dinner and when we went to go our friend said, "If any body bothers you let me know and I will lick them for you. I like to fight but would rather fight for you boys than to fight you. Good bye." To finish this,--some ten years after as I was sitting at the dinner table at Pueblo, Colorado, I noticed a man looking across the table at me. I soon recognized him as my Irish friend. I spoke and asked if he knew me. "Yes, I know you. How are you?" he asked, reaching across the table and shaking hands with me. "Have you ever thought of me?" I enquired. "Yes a thousand times." I told him I had often thought of him, and with a few more words we parted. I feel an interest now in this man and would be glad to meet him again and know his name. I can say that I have often observed, in the course of my experience, that every man, even the worst, has something good about him if properly treated. CHAPTER XXXIX. Justice in Early Days--We Prepare to go Further--Our Letter of Introduction--Loss of our Animals--We Trail and Find Them. I will give you a short account of the actions of the first authorities of Franklin as given to me by the main actor, that the "tenderfeet" of the present day may know a little of the experiences of early days. When Franklin first established itself as a town, Judge Jones was elected mayor and Ben Dowel marshal. Soon after organizing a number of roughs came in and started to run the town, defying the officers. This would have been all right and possibly admired a few days before the organization, but now order must be kept and the laws vindicated. A warrant was issued and the marshal and posse approached the rioters. A man was killed, but the outlaws kept possession of the street and defied the officers. Something had to be done. The dockets show that these men were arrested, brought to trial and found guilty of murder in the first degree; that the court sentenced them to be shot; that Ben Dowel and others were ordered by the court to execute the orders.