Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-26

Drleu ifult. ..... Z,0oS9 De
Peaches ................. 34cans
Average number of convicts in con.
finement, 3221s.
Average number of yards of stripes
and satinets used in Ohio State Peni-
Tertiary during the year 1877, 5 Ito
yds per man.
| Average number of yards of stripes
used in the Iowa penitentiary during
each year of Craig's administration,
1913 yards per man.
Average No. OF yards of Hickory
used in the Ohio Penitentiary during
the year 1876, 54 yards per man.
Average No. of yards of Hickory
used in the Iowa penitentiary during
the year 1877, IA 9-lO yards per man.
/. Average cost of tobacco during the
years 1866 in the Iowa penitentiary,
224 mills per day per man.
Average cost during the same years
in the Illinois penitentiary, 5 mills
per day per man.
| Average No. of lbs. of meat con-
sumed each year Of Crsig's sdminis-
tration, 707 lbs. per man.
| Averge number of lbs of meat con-
sumed during the years 1866 in the
Illinois penitentiary, each year, 255
lbs. per man.
Average cost per day during S. H.
Craig's adj inistration of the Iowa
penitentiary for general support and
officers salaries, G7 $40 cents per man.
Average cost per day during the
years 1876 and 1877, in the Iowa peni-
tentiary for general support and off,
GERS salaries, "a 7-lO cents per man.
Average cost per day during the
years 1874, rs, and '76, of the Illinois
penitentiAry, for same accounts, 4OI
cents per man.
Average cost per day during the
year 1878, in the Northern Indiana
penitentiary for same accounts, 33
cents per man.
Average cost per day during the
years 1876 aud II Of the Ohio peni-
Tertiary for same accounts, l41a cents
per man.
Price paid for stripes CT inches
wide and IL OF. to the yard), in Him
ois penitentiaI y during the years 1875
and 1876, 66a55 cents per yard.
Price paid for same used in the
Iowa penitentiary during the same
years, 96c. to 81 per yard.
CRAIG's REPORTS.
In his first biennial report made to
the Governor, on the 3lst day of Oc-
tober, 1873, Warden Craig says {page
465): "While the past management
has had considerable appropriations
from the State Treasury, from thou
sand dollars or SO to many thousands,
the present Warden has neither had
a dollar appropriated and placed to
the credit of the general support
fund, nor has there been occasion to
draw upon this fund for any sum, not
even dollar, had an appropriation
been made. Owing to the prudential
aud careful utilization of the labor of
| the convicts the product of
the labor contracts has sufficed to
meet all expenditures for the general
support Of the prison. More, it has
not only been ample for this, but it
has also been drawn upon and
still has unexpended balance in the
treasury OF $l4,44S.04. In this con-
nection it is also proper to state that
the supplies of red blankets, socks,
clothing, goods, tish, vegetables, and
some other articles have been pur-
chased in quantities sufficient to serve
for several months, rendering further
immediate drafts upon the unex-
pended balance unnecessary. 1t thus
appears that despite the extremely
low price at which the convict labor
is sol |, to-wit: forty and one-third
cents per day, the Iowa penitentiary
has become practically self-support-
ing"
Asappears from his second Bien-
nial Report, made Oct. 3lst. 1875. the
convict labor was let in July, 1874, at
an increase of 1873 cents pc. day per
man, above what was paid during the
period covered by his first report, and
yet Notwithstanding this, and the con-
stant depreciation iu the prices Of
necessaries, his second report shows
that on the lst day of Oct, 1875, the
supplies on hand ut the time of his
first report, and the $l4, ,44S.04 balance
of the general support fund, were
exhausted, and in addition that he
had received from the State for the
use of the gen raj support fund $l2,-
4S9 OF, and that fund was then indebt-
ed in the sum Of $l,339.37.
From his third Biennial Report,
made on the 30.h OF September, 1877,
it appears that this self-supporting
institution, under his management,
drew from the State for the general
support fund, the sum of $4O,447.Ol,
anu that on that date, it had all been
expended, except $55.55. The indebt-
edness Of the general support fund,
at the date he was relieved, March 8,
1878, is reported at SIS, l42.6S.
Referring again to the Warden's
reports, we find that during the first
twenty.four months, the general sup
port fund received from all sources,
$SS, ,23677 and that the average num-
ber Of prisoners in confinement was
supported said prisoners, laid in q
sufficient supply of many of the lead
ing necessaries to last for several
months, and then he had balance Of
$l4.4 4.44S.90. He received during the
next twenty-four months for said
fund, from different sources (besides
the State), $92,l2S.9O. The average
number of prisoners in confinement
was 2S5; and that said fund, received
during the following twenty three
months, over and above what was
paid it by the state, the sum Of $9l,- :
6O5.5S, and that the average number
of convicts in confinement was re.
ported at 3726.23.
The amount allowed by law to be
expended for the general support Of
each convict during S. II. Craig's ad-
ministration was limited to $8ls per
month, yet we find there was expend.
ed by him for that purpose Atone.
during his first term $ll.35 8; second
term, $l7.A6 third term, $l5.26.
Many of the transactions during S.
II. Craig's administration we have
notinquired into, but we believe that
sufficient facts have been developed
to show that an investigation was ad-
visable, and that the information OBJ
tained will be Of benefit in the prose-
cution Of the suits that have been
brought against the late Warden and
his bondsmen, in which actions said