The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-04
NEVADA STATE PRISON.

The second Biennial Report OF Jas.
:. SIingerland, Warden OF the Nevada
state Prison, for the years 5 and
so, has been printed, and a copy Is
now before us. From this we learn
hat during Mr.. Sli~ngerland's admin
istntion he received l23 prisoners, in
Guiding those turned over to him by
Warden Crosman. OF this number II
we're sentenced for murder in the sec
end degree. 81 for grand larceny, 6 for
ra~ansiaughter, l for burglary and rob-
d-sry, 10 for robbery, II for burglary,
Is for assault with intent to murder, l
for arson, l for attempt to commit ar
.on, second degree, . for attempt at
grand larceny. l for receiving stolen
goods, 1 for forgery, for breaking
isil, , for drawing deadly weapons, 3
TOR assault with deadly weapons, 1 for
eounterfeiting, for assault with in
tent to rob, l for violation of L. 5. rev.
enue laws, and l for killing. There
arc 70 laborers, 5 blacksmithS, . sail
crs, l steward cooks, 5 stone masons.
Stailors, l ranchero, S carpenters, 81
miners. D shoemakerS, , saddlerS, 4
farmers machinistS, baker. l host
ier, composition, l barber, l stone
cutter, l waiter, ) clerks, l stage dri-
YER, 4 laundrymen, l liquor dealer, )
butchers. | engineer, | merchant, and
boiler maker. There are 81 of them
rom Storey county, 20 from Lander,
I6 from WaShoe. II from White Pine.
II from Elko, 10 from Ormshy, ) from
Douglas. 4 from Nye,5 from Lyon, ,
from Humboldt. and l from Lincoln.
Churchill and Esmeralda counties
have no representatives, i'll the State
Prison. Foreign countries gave birth
~ 6S, and the United States to so. OF
he latter. Is hail from New York;
and Virginia each; Iowa, Tennessee,
Massachusetts. Illinois, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Florida, Maine, Michigan,
: each; Delaware, Nevada, Louisiana,
New Jersey, Wisconsin,. Vermont.
Indiana, Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire, | each. OF foreign born prison
,rs we have 10 from Ireland, IL from
England; Germany and China, reach:
from Canada: Mexico, Wales, Rus
,ia, Switzerland and Chile, > each; and
italy, France. Scotland, Norway and
Australia. l each. The four Oldest are
aged respectively 40 ~years-three OF
hem from England and n from
Maryland; the youngest, II, from
Kentucky. Nine We're sentenced fol
life. l for 80 years, l for 43, l for 10, :
for2a5, l for-3 Years 6 months, l for -,
c:for 81. 1 for 20, l for is, l for Il years
;months. l for -, > for II, l for l3,
Hor 70, 4 for 10, l for 9, ; forS, 5 for :,
o 6. - for }, l for 4, 10 for3 IS tor >.
FLOR 10 months, ) for Is months, IL for
p. year, and / for three months. Every
prisoner sentenced could read and
write.
Otherwise, the Report is Il singularly
fncomprehensible document, and it is
perhaps as well that it was delayed
until the expiring hours of the Legis-
isture-as that body would have been
,uzzled out of its wits i'll bordering
over it. 1t seems to have beenthe de.
sire of the retiring administration &c
elaborate small items and abbreviate
nr omit large ones. For instance. Sly
pages of the pamphlet are devoted t.
tho naming of the property turned
ever December 9th last, consisting il
uurt of old oil cans, brooms, beans
jiam, hOminy, soap, sand paper ano
rees wax; while only S613 81 are re-
,,nrtpd as income-S300 - of this dat
:ns back to April, 1867, and being pu
Sown as still outstanding. Against
his four wears income, We find pu
down as 1.-The total cost of running the
Nevada State Prison from January |
$3.50, 10 December p, 1870" twC
;aarsl. the sum of SS3,69o 81; vet IL
Another place (if We understand the
;;eport-and we think We come as
AGAR to it as is compatible with sanity
We find that the prison was Support
cd and maintained from April II t.
December /, lS70"-nearly eigh
nonths-by S37,l50 81 which wa:
drawn from the state Prison Fund
she $4,000 appropriated in 1863 be
came exhausted i'll July last. Among
The items of expenditures is g, go ),
,or .l,Iilding new addition designed
for woInen's prison and for refractory
,.nvicts," which, at Il glance, W.
should estimate TO he worth about tina
sum if built for or by private indivil'
nails. 1t seems that liS14 cords @
stnpe was furnished to the Branci
Mint. but no account is given OF tina
,;tnI Tho total SIM