Jan. 31st, 6:57pm
From the Journal of Josephine Maxwell
December 23rd, 1875
We left the Yellow Rose with the men after the leader pulled out some dynamite. The men still insisted they were going to take the injured man.
Jakey Wales pulled out his gun and the men grabbed Juan as a hostage. Juan attempted to get away with a punch to one man's face.
The man shot at Juan and grazed his head. The men tried to run around the Doc's office and Juan followed. They shot Juan and he collapsed to the ground.
The Doc ran out to help Juan and Jakey Wales shot back at the men. Rusty Shackleford shot one of the three men from inside the building, and that man fell. The sheriff came out and shot the leader down. Then Jakey shot the last man after I walked into the church.
8:07pm
After all the men were shot, we took everyone into the Doc's office. Two of the men were taken to jail, two were taken to the chapel.
Feb. 7th
December 24th, 1875
The blizzard had picked up. We got the feeling that the storm would go on for a while. After a day we began to check to make sure all the people in town were all right.
December 25th
We brought Granny Crocker into town. We also decided to check on the rest of the people outside of town. The three men from out of town seem to have disappeared. All of their belongings were left, and the horses were left and had frozen to death.
6:28pm
December 31st, 1875
The newcomer to town, Johnny Chu, went out to find that Algernon Dike had built a fence right against Johnny's house. We had a town meeting and agreed that he had to move the fence back.
January 2nd, 1876
Wire arrived from Ft. Grant: "Rep FMM will soon arrive to survey the grounds."
A young sick girl was brought into town by her parents. She continued to get more sick over the next few days. She had a red dot under each of her shoulder blades.
In the Doc's office over the night, the Doc saw the girl with a person standing over her int he middle of the night. The person had a weird glow around him. The Doc threw his coffee pot at the man and it deflected off the person and landed upright on the floor.
The Doc grabbed the strange intruder, but then felt calm. The person disappeared after proclaiming that the girl was hurting. The weird light seemed to glow around the girl.
The stranger disappeared, but the girl's spots seemed to be getting better.
The papers saying the FMM survey party was going to be there soon arrived.
Mr. Bloch returned to town to talk about surveying. We let them know where they could survey, and I told them not to go past the river and not to go near Round Bend.
January 3rd, 1876
The sick girl with the red dots seemed to be getting better. She went home with her parents.
January 6th, 1876
Rusty Shackleford heard footsteps on top of his house and then tapped the ceiling with a broom. He then heard a tap back on his roof, then looked out to see a light float down off the house, then head into town.
Johnny Chu heard a glass break in the kitchen of his house and saw, just below the window, a small creature with long ears. He reached down and grabbed it. It was textured like metal.
The things floated away and ran off to the woods.