The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15
The united States Marshal and the Penitentiary.

We have made a careful examination as
toythe manner in which the several United
States marshals have conducted the peni-
Tertiary from 1882 to the present time an
find that the management has been about
S7ksame by the several gentlemen who
have mad charge of that institution during
)vfhe period covered by this report.
The penitentiary is in charge of the mar
shall as warden. He has from ten TO
twenty guards under him, one of whom
acts as deputy warden at a compensation of
SIS per month and board
The deputy warden from 1882 to 1SS6,was
George n. Dow, appointed by Marshal Ire
land. Mr.. Dow also served for some
months under Marshal Dyer. From Oc-
tober, 1886, to the close of Mr.. Dyer's ad-
ministration, o. L. Brown and Arthur
Pratt were the deputy wardens. Mr.. JOS
eph Amos is the deputy under Marshal
Parsons.
The supplies were furnished for the peni-
| Tertiary during all this time-with few eX-
| ceptions-by the following named firms:
"a Groceries and provisions, Remington,
johnson u Co.
Groceries and provisions, Kahn Bros.
Fresh beef, Martin Lannan.
Fresh beef, Cook & Glanfeld.
Dry goods and clothing, Auerbach Bros.
Dry goods and clothing, L. Goldberg.
Flour. George a. Lowe.
Coal, Pleasant Valley Coal Co.
Hay, ID. c, Lee.
Oats and bran, Sears & Liddle.
Potatoes and milk, by the deputy war
den above named.
THE VOUCHERS.
Upon examining such vouchers as we
have been able TO find, with view of as
ertaining prices paid for supplies, etc., for
the penitentiary, we ascertained that all
vouchers rendered the government for pO-
tatoes and milk by Deputy Wardens Dow,
Brown and Pratt, were not according to
thdAscts. The potatoes were raised upon
the penitentiary reservation by prison
labor; the milk was from cows owned by
the marshal, cared for by prison labor and
fed principally from food either raised upon
the reservation or paid for by the govern
ment: the deputy wardens presented the
vouchers for such supplies in their re-
spective names, but the money went to the
marshals. These potatoes cost the govern
ment from sixty to seventy-tive cents per
bushel and the milk from twenty five to
forty cents per gallon,
From 1882 to the present time the gov
ernment has paid on account of these milk
Vouchers between two thousand five
hundred and three thousand dollars
this for the use of one, and a por-
Eon of the time, two COWS, to supply milk
occasionally few quarts for the prison
hospital 1t was also made to appear that
during the time Mr.. Brown was deputy
warden. not half the milk was furnished
which the vouchers called for.
We are unable to state the amount of
money the government paid on these so
called potato vouchers but are entirely
satisfied that it was in excess of the amount
paid for milk.
There were confined at the penitentiary
during the fiscal year ending May 81, 1889,
a daily average of 2O3 $40 prisoners, which,
with the twelve guards and the deputy
warden and matron, made a total of PIG $40
persons to be provided for. The total cost
of this for the year was about SS7, 800; de-
ductNg salaries of guards, warden and
matron, the expense was about $4,000.
The expense of keeping prisoners for the
year ending July, 1889, including pay and
board of guards, and the warden's salary,
was about 4S cents per day; deducting pay
Of guards and warden's salary, it was about
80 cents per day.
We are of the opinion that many OF the
samples furnished were excessive in GUAM
titv and extravagant in price.
In March, 1889, there was II, 100 pounds
of fresh meat used, at cents, 1855; ham