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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

The penitentiary has never been more
economically managed than at the present
time. There are fewer idle prisoners NJ
this season of the year than at any pre-
vious corresponding time. Up to the lst
Of December therseWas not an idle man in
in the prison. Since the men have been
withdrawn from the brick yards and quar-
ries there are from one to two hundred
prisoners unemployed, With 30 immediate
prospect of their employment before spring.
These men remain idle in their cells, which
necessarily entails heavy expense on the
state. This is unavoidable, ~ there is not
sufficient room inside of the walls of the
. branch penitentiary be erected in some
p art of the State.
The health Of the prisoners is excellent
The death rate Is remarkably small and
cases vi serious illness are rare. No cpl
demic Of any disease has prevailed for
years. The following statement evidences
the ruth Of the above statements
During the year 1881, 225 prisoners we're
admitted to the hospital and in 1882 to
Deceaber lst, 212. Total 437.
The average daily sick, both patients
and outside, male and female, from Janu-
AIRY ist. 1881, to December tst. 1882, equals
l9 or LIS per 100.
Deaths in 1881 were males, 81: females,
1. Total %.
Deaths in 1882 to December LIST, males,
Il females l. Total Is.
Deaths total January LIST, 1881 to Deem
Der LIST. 1882. ~ or Is t. the 1900.
There are at present seventy five persons
in prison sentenced to term 0flife servitude
or to one over twenty years. As the history
Of the penitentiary shows that no prisoner
has lived 70 complete . term Of fourteen
years. would il not be wise 70 90 amend the
law As 70 have no sentence extend beyond
twenty years, and giving the convict the
advantage of the three-iOorths rule, as il
nov exists, a. an incentive to good behav-
ior? This rule, ii restored, should apply
to those prisoners heretofore sent for over
twenty wears. Such change in the law,
as above indicated, would remsye those
sentences which cannot BE fulfilled except
BY death, and would give some hope Of
relief to those men who are now entirely
without hope and without an incenti e to
good behavior. A mans hope and life
should not be obliterated and DESTROYED BY
prison lite. Punish him. but do not de-
grade him forever BY declaration of Law
that man who enters . prision should
leave all hope behind, should be forever
viewed rs an enemy OF his race. without
being given an opportunity to retrsce his fall
en- steps OF. to become free. man sgain. The
presumption is that all men sent to the
Denitentiary are bad men. This is not true
many Of them are bad-very bad men
but there are some men within these
darkeued walls who have been trained in
the way they should 60, Who have occupied
honorable positions in life and filed the
measure Of good citizenship until at
some inpassioned and misguided msment
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

These tables show an increase in valu-
alton in 1882 over 1881 of 81, 554 1863 IL
and general appreciation in values in all
kinds of property. II the rate Of increase
in values is rs great this year as last,
think the valuation this year will exceed
O0,0OO,OO0. This will spring from two
causes: fFst, the natural increase in the
value Of property and second. the iniroduc-
ton of ether property into the State. The
taxes are rap dly diminishing in conse-
suence of increased valuations and the
rapid growth and development of the n.
sources Of the State. Under the present
constitution, the State tax rate can not ex.
coed forty cents on the hundred dollars
valuation, one-half of which is set apart
for the payment of the interest on the State
debt and the reduction of that debt, which
reduction, under the constitution, cannot
be less than $250,0O0.0O per annum.
Twenty-Five per cent Of the remaining half
Of the taxes is sacredly set aside for the
support Of the public schools Of the State.
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$l20,455 "a
Total. ............

Excess 1882 earnings over maintenance,
$6.Sll.52
Excess Of maintenance and repairs over
total receipts. E,905.3S
The following table gives an exact state
ment of the actual loss sustained BY the
State in Consequence Of the Ere Of May,
1881, computed from actual purchases made
to replace and from inventory December
81, 1880.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

ton of the criminal court of jackson
county and its officers; and thus there
was but little difficulty in securing a
pronounced enforcement of the laws,
and awakening in the minds of the peo-
pie of that county settled determine
ton to remove the stain placed upon
the county by the depredations ofthee
hands, and to summarily end, at once,
and forever, the crimes and career of
the organization. In this connection,
l desire to publicly recognize the in
telligent and efficient assistance of.
Capt. Henry H. Craig, of Kansas City
and Sheriff James X. Tilberlake, of
Clay>county. The aid rendered by
these gentlemen was invaluable to me,
and without it the duty devolving
upon me would have been much more
difficult, if not altogether impossible,
to accomplish. The task they assured
required fearless courage, extraordi-
nary vigilance and an unerring selec-
ton of instrumentalities. They &C
complished within fourteen months
what others for twenty years had
wholly failed to do; and to these
gentlemen, more than to all others, is
due the credit Of bringing these out.
laws to justice. 1t also gives me
pleasure to recognize the valuable
services of John Cason, sheriff of Sa-
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vA,@oS We
This sum Of $1,262.64 is exclusively the
excess of the receipts over that OF expepdi-
lures for the daily expenses Of the prison
for 1881, and is wholly independent of the
loss sustained by the destructive FIRE which
occurred there on the night OF the 11th OF
May, 1881, an account of which loss is
given below.
Although the loss sustained BY the State
in consequence of the FIRE in May. 1881,
was large and Notwithstanding the cost of
living ia the latter part of 1881, in conse-
quence OF the drought OF 1881, was greater
than in former years, yet the management
of the prison was so frugal and judicious
that the excess of the maintenance and re-
pairs consequent by loss by FIRE over the
receipts were only $S,099.S5, while those OF
the earnings alone over the cost of main
tenance were $6,44S.44. These figures
present an irreiutable answer to the idle
charges Of extravaganza and carelessness
made by incOnsiderate men against the
Warden.
pROCEEDS PRISON LARNR 1890
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fetal. ,27S :

Total. .......... tl4l ,2IS %
Considering the amount and excellent
character of the work done, We can say
that it was money veil spent, which has
and will rebound to the prosperity of the
State. In connection with this subject, l
call your attention to the necessity for
making the Office Of County Assessor more
desirable 10 our best business men than il
is new. 1t is, in my estimation, the most
important in the list Of county sfices.
Upon the action Of the Assessor-who is
often wholly incompetent ascertained
the taxable wealth of . county; and BY
aggregating the counties, The wealth Of the
State. outside of the cities. II proper as
sessments were made, there would be . sui
icient increase in the aggregate valuation
to pay the public debt of the State in ten
years. There ID . serious wrong in the
unequal and insufficient valuation placed
upon all kinds Of property, and the sooner
il is corrected the better il will be for the
State and the people. There is an evil
somewhere, either in the system or in the
way the duties of the Office ars executed,
which should be remedied at an early day.
The wisdom of this body will suggest q
remedy. Otherwise, the revenue Law
fully meets the necessity of its
existence. The back.tax law, - construed
by the Supreme Court, has been the means
Of enforcing the payment Of q large amount
of delinquent tax, and it should be sus-
tanned BY the voice Of the people. Missouri
has outgrovn the old system, rs operated.
Under il, taxes are closely and honestly
collected, and those taxes, for State purA
poses, are gradually diminishing; and to
lessen the burdens Of the people, taxes for
local purposes should also be diminished
in the counties. Low taxes end the en-.
forcement of the lava insures happy and
prosperous people. Before clio ing this
subject, assert that the peace Of society is
secured the States finances are in Q salts
factory condition; the government is man
aged with the strictest economy the courts
are pure and active in their duties; schools
and churches are found in every neighbor-
hood, and there is Q settled determination
in the minds Of the people to faithfully OBJ
serve every obligation imposed upon them
BY law, custom or morality. Since have
been Governor, it has been my chief aim
to protect its morals and its credit.
THE PESITENTIARY.
The table given herein shows the num-
Der Of prisoners confined in the peniI entiary
during the years 1881 and 1882. 1t viii
be seen that there has been an increase Of
convictions during the year 1882, and At
the close Of the year 1882 there -ere ll3
more convicts in the prison than at the
close Of 1881. This does not evidence an
increase of crime in the State; it merely
indicates IN increase Of convictions during
the year last past. Fewer crimes we're
committed during the year 1882 than for .
corresponding length Of time for many
years. There Is now q settled determine.
ton upon the part of the officers to en-
force the laws, punish wrong doors and
give protection to the honest and indus
triOus.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

Deducting the certificates OF indebted
ness held in trust for the school and semi
nary funds, the aggregate bonded indebted
ness January LIST, 1883, is $lo,94S, 600, not
including the Hannibal & ST. Joseph
railroad bonds.
OF this debt SIZE, 900 State bouds proper
mature in 1883. and none in 1884.
In addition to State bonds purchased,
the Fund Commissioners also purchased in
1881 bond 1914 of the Hannibal & ST. 10
seph r. X. series, leaving the amount OF
II. & St 10. bonds outstanding s., 1893 600.
think the receipts Of the revenue lev
led upon the valuation of 1881 and 1882
will be ample to meet the demands OF the
state until the General Assembly shall
again con, enc in 1885. This is gratifying
to those interested in its financial condi-
ton. Since this administration Was in
augurated the expenditures have been At
the minimum. The necessary costs and
expenses of the 3lst General Assembly
WcI ......-. A-,Scs H
OF the Called Sessisn....... $3.50 "a
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Females. ............. IA
- 635
Daily average confined In prison...13lS
PROCEEDS PRISON LABOR 1881.
Receipts.
Labor for 1881 s95,69S Is
Proceeds of sale Of broom fac
tory. ......................... 1927 "a
Total.....................Sl1 ,423 SO
Disposition.
Maintenance of penitentisry
XOtoi.s.s 20
Excess earnings over maintenance,
Sr
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Missouri Pacific Railroad bonds.....s s59. GOA 10
North Mo. Rail Dad bonds. Isi7O0O ~
81. L. & Iron Mountain X. r. bonds. ,:sl 90 On
Cairo Fulton railroad bonds $780,. 36l 40 %
Platte county railroad bonds-........... $4,000 0O
Consolidation bonds ......... 267D0S O0
state bonds proper $4,000 O0
State funding bonds 9SsDDp o.
Stale bank stock refuniing bonds. S9,eK o.
Penirentixry indemnity bonds.-........ -h,ro ~
State University bonds. ............ sD.0si 'Ss
North western Lunatc Asylum bonds. l>i,;.,I ~
Missouri per cent. consolidated certi-
ficate Of indebtedness tschool fund.-. $4,000 70
No. per cent. consolidated certificate
of Indebtedness seminary fuudl--- l22.0o0 "a
Total ...................... 100 ca
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Deducting the bonds redeemed and purchased
in ISL and 1851, g. 80 UD from the outstanding
debt January lsi, 1881, and We have remaining sl3
$1,000 which represents the entire interest bearing
debt ON the first day OF January, lss3-not inelud-
i-g bonds issued TO the Hannibal & ST. Joseph
Railroad Company. This debt may be classified as
follows:
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

June 20, 1881, to treasur.
er's receipt---...-..........
July 6, 1851, by purchast
OF III. 4 Sc j. bond No
l244......-....... ...........,
Aug =, 1861, by ll7l u,
). Reg. : per cent. and
premiun1-...................
Aug. ., 1882, by pur.
chase Of 10 Mo. State
bonds, proper and in
tefest .....-..-.........-....
Sept, 1882, BY purchas.
Of LIP No. bonds ol
sundry series, inelud-
ing premium and &C.
crued interest......-.....
Sept. I, 1882, by 156 stat,
D0nus, proper ana IN
forest, called by Fun
Commissioners.-........
Sept I, 1882, BY 1910 "
newal funding bond
and interest called b,
fund commissioners. -.
Sept. I, 1854, by cash in
vested ia other state
bonds.........................
Total............. .........
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This leaves only fifteen cents on the hun.
dred dollars for the support of the State
Government, the pay Of the Legislature.
costs in criminal cases and and the main
tenance of various eleemosynary institu-
its affairs more economically. This &C
counts for its prosperous condition. Dur
ing the present administration the public
debt OF the State has been reduced as fol-
lows:
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Receipts
Labor IL months, 1882. 1871 70
From Treasurer on account Of
earnings of 1880. .. 1858 %
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Leaving a balance of........-. $42,7 80
Considering the very large humber Of
prosecutions and convictions within the
last two years, and that crime Of every
grade has keen so we'll held in check, this
economy is creditable to the CO urts and Of
icers of the Law.
The following table shows the expsndi-
tsres for such costs for the last twelve
years:
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

CARSON AND COLORADO II. Il.
Taking Effect October 10, 1883.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14
How He Reformed.

A well known Santa Fe business
man had fine business and was ma.
king money rapidly, but was an invet-
crate gambler. Every night would
find him away from his wife, at a
faro table. The quick-witted woman
saw where the trouble was, and one
night after supper, she asked her hus-
band to 90 with her into another room
where he found faro table, a Layout"
and stacks of chips.
"Now," said she, 81 have $4,000
belonging to me in my own right.
When you want to gamble come here"
He was thunderstruck, and swore he
would never gamble again.
"No," she said, 81 don't want that
promise. You can afford to lose very
little money. What | have you can
win, / want you to promise me that
you will never play faro except here"
He promised, and that faro layout
has been used for the last five months.
With what she has won from him,
dealing herself, she has paid $3.50 for
Il buggy and built pretty little brick
cot age which cost little over s 900
81 told her TO put the whole arrange
ment in her trunk last week. said the
reclaimed gambler, that | was tired
of gambling. l shall never touch an
other card.'
But the sequel Is yet to come. The
correspondent happened to look into
a gambling-room the other night a
few hours after he had heard this story,
which is frequented almost entirely by
thn wpl1 IN fin mprpboptc opI ,,rofac
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

A young man in New York city has
new wife. His business frequently
keeps him out late at night. The
new wife is nervous when he is away,
and afraid of burglars. But she very
properly objects to his carrying a
latch-key because, as she says, " If you
should lose it, love, and a burglar
should find it, he might come right in
without using one OF those awful
jimmy things that the papers tell
about" the young man did not even
attempt to explain to her that there
are some burglars, new to the bnsne S,
who if they were to find an ordinary
latch-key on South Water street or at
the Monmouth race-track, might not
know that it fitted Il door in West
Twenty street The honey
moon still has several weeks to rum
In lieu of the latch-key she herself
suggested the other evening at dinner
as he was to be out particularly late
that night, that instead of sitting up
for him she would place the key
under the door mat When he got
home at 2 A, NJ. he saw by the light of
the street lamp piece of white paper
PINNED over the keyholc. He struck
match and read:
DEAREST: the key is under the mat,
where said | would leave it, but |
was afraid you might forget. Your
own JULIA.
AS a Substitute for burglar alarms,
there is nothing like new and in.
genious wife
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14
HOW 1T WAS DONE.

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
For when he marked his prices down
He then did advertise.
And when he saw his trade increase
With all his might and main,
He marked still lower every piece
And advertised again.
And when he advertised again
His rivals loudly swore
To see folks rush with might and main
To patroniEe his store.
And when they sat in solitude,
And saw his custom win,
That man behind the counter stood
And raked the sheckels in.
And when he raked the sheckels in
And saw his fortune rising,
He took n goodly lot of -" tin "
Ard kept on advertising.
Each day generous sum he'd sink,
And demonstrate full plain
The more one spends for printers ink
The greater is his gain.
And as he raked the sheckels in
And to the bank went smiling,
The banker asked, "Whence comes this tin :
d" Ha, ha, ha," he said, by Advertising
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

"WHAT do we learn from the par
able of the five wise and five foolish
virginsg' was recently asked in Il Texas
Sunday. school. THAT we must watch
every hour for the coming of the
bridegroom" a blashing Galveston
girl replied,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

"Drp you enjoy yourself at Frank
lin yesterday, Amy?' asked the High
School girl, "You bet your sweet
life did, was the forcible reply.
90 dear me! can never eradica Q
slang from your vocabnlary?" eA-
claimed the High School girl, in de-
spair. 81 thought that under NV
tuteiagc you would by this time (
your own volition have been able to
say; Wager your saccharine vitality,
instead OF Bet your sweet life.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

IT is an interesting and well -estab-
lished fact that bees never visit two or
more classes of flowers on the same
trip, but always procure full lot of
honey, or whatever kind they com
mence ON first, and return to the hive
to unload before making change.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

r -NF7not, ,hfe is sweeping by, go
X. HS land dare before you die, some
AtAd0 d thing mighty and sublime
leave behind to conquer time.
S66 week in your own town. So outflt free.
No risk. Everything new. Capital not re-
quired. We will furnish you everything.
Many are making fortunes. Ladies make as
much as men, and boys and girls make great
pay. Reader if you want business at which
you can make great pay all the time, write for
particulars to II. HALLETT a. Co. Portland,
Nss5ue'
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

The proprietors will endeavor to sell The
very best of every article in their line, and
thereby merit a liberal share of the public
patronage.
COIN qHS0INK n RICH ARnSnN
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-11-14

AT Hawthorne with the United States Stage
Company's coaches for Aurora, 26 miles,
Bodie, 81 miles; Landy and Bridgeport, and
stages for Coreyyille, IL miles.
At Luning, 125 miles from Mound House
with Gimer, Salisbury a. Co.'S tri-weekly
stages leaving Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays for Downeyville, Grantsville ano
Belmont.
Al Candelaria with the stages for Colrm
bus, miles; Silver Peak, Montezuma, Lide
Valley, Cola Mountain, etc.
At Bishop Creek with daily stages for 1nde
pendence, Cerro Gordo. etc.
II. NJ. YERINGTON, Gen Supt.
r. j. LAWS, Assistant Superintendent.
ID. A. BENDER,
General Fl eight and Passenger Agent.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-05

DIVING FOR GOLD. Down in the State
of Cauca, in the Republic of Columbia,
there are many deposits of auriferous
gravel. Most of the small gulches and
ravines have been worked out a hundred
years ago, though more or less mining is
still going on. Many large streams have
auriferous beds and the natives are not
up to turning the course of the river, SO
they mine in peculiar way. The women
take batea in their hands and dive down
in ten or fifteen feet Of water, scrape the
loose sand and gravel into it, and bring it
to the surface. They then climb on the
bank and pan" it out. They get all the
way from few cents to four bits batea.
Sometimes the men engage in this work.
but it is mainly done by the women.
After dive they set down on the bank
and smoke awhile before going down
again. They teach the children Of twelve
to dive for gold also. Sometimes rich
pockets or deposits are struck. Nobody
but natives engage in this sort of work.
At Saragassa, the Clara creek and the
Tewee river good deal of this mining
by women is done.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-05

The Virginia Enterprise, speaking oil
the mining outlook along the Comstock,
remarks: sour people feel not little
encouraged at the present outlook. Some
of our oldest and best miners say that
things are looking in the right way.
They say there is very good outlook for
a bonanza in the middle mines, and also
for one at the north end. They say that
no particular effort has been made in
either case to make a sensation in regard
to these developments, yet they are some-
thing that will last. An old mining
superintendent and shrewd mining man
whose name we are not at liberty to give
lis at present on the Comstock, and has
examined the lode from the Belcher to
the Utah. He said: Il am astonished
at what see. There are things going on
that no outsider know of. You know,
and most people on the Comstock know,
that not half the ore that is taken
out is being reported. There are big
movements being made on the Comstock
that will revolutionize things before an.
other year.