The morning call., 1890-06-15
MEETING OF
PRISON. DIRECTORS.
Bids for Supplies to the States
Penal Institutions.
Contracts Awarded-Warden McComb Sub
mits His Report Regarding Affairs at
the San Quentin Prison.

The State Board OF Prison Directors met yes
terday at San Quentin. Present. Il. I. Devlin.
Chairman; Directors Z. j. de Pue, j. Craig
Charles Sonntag; absent P. Reddy.
The morning session was consumed in auditing
bills and passing bids. The bills audited
amounted to SIT, 800.
The contracts for supplies were then consid
cred and passed upon.
The contract for potatoes was awarded TO John
F. English.
The bidders on fionr were the Starr Company
Buckeye Milling Company andthe Stockton MIL
ing Company. These bidders were Instructed to
furnish samples of their -four at the meeting
which is to be held at Folsom next Saturday.
Beans, oats. oicake, meal. cabbage. onions
and potatoes. F. II. Hammer.
Hay, J. G. johnson.
Corn. wheat and hay, Scott & McUord.
Photographic material, S. G. Partridge and
Hirsch, Kahn & Co.
Beef So 92 mutton Sc "a, Miller, Lux s. Co.
Lime and cement, III. T. Holmes Lime Co.
Sand, Alden Brothers.
The board then adjourned until after the lunch
hour.
In THE AFTERNOON.
At the assembling OF the afternoon session the
question OF groceries was taken up. and Jacob
S. Tabor was appointed an expert to report on
the quality of groceries and PROVISIONS
Contracts for groceries were awarded to the
following firms: Jones g. Co., Goldberg, Bowen
Co.. Getz Brothers. and Mau, Sadler s Co..
On oil the bidders were Leonard Ellis & Co.,
Whittier, Fuller & Co., Standard OIL Company
Yates s. Co., Baldwin, Taylor s. Co.
Oppenheimer g. Brothers. DrinkhOuse & Co.,
Eisberg, Bachmann s. Co. and Ii. Levi were the
bidders on tobacco.
r. W. Simpson and F. Feldman bid on brushes
and brooms, Levi Strauss s. Co. on blankets and
prison cloth, and Murphy, Grant & Co. on dry
goods.
wARDEN's REPORT.
The following report was submitted by the
Warden
To The Honorable state Board of Prison Directors
GENTLEMEN: The farmers OF the State have
ifested their appreciation Of your action in fixing
the price OF grain bags at 61a cents by sending in
their orders by mail and by telegraph, and even
after the stock on hand was exhausted they have
placed orders ahead of manufacture, content to re-
cefve the bags when they can be turned out, up TO
July Goth.
late even later engagements will be made. The in
dcations that the yield OF grain will be nearly
up to the product of last year, judging from the
orders from individual farmers for each season.
While the brilliant financial results for the bag
factory will not equal that of the previous year
subs antial encouragement given to the farmers
who had INDUCED In gloomy forebodings about the
prospects OF poor returns for their labor; low
price for grain sacks prevented many farmers from
sacrificing their crops by cutting for hay, and they
weather has favored them by maturing an average
crop when they bad looked for scarcely anything.
On the night OF the 18th OF May Frank Van
wezer, an inmate of Crazy Alley, succeeded in cut
ting the upper bolt of his cell door and IN destroy
he managed to reach the top of the wall aud out
witted the stupid sentry by giving nonchalant
crazy man disappeared In the front building in
course of erection and reached the outside of the
grounds. Speedy pursuit was made, but the iugi-
tive was not captured. He is said TO have been
seen last Monday'in Germantown. Colusa County.
HABEAs CORPUS wRITs.
Judge Gibson dismissed the writ OF hab zas corpus
in the case OF Edward shetland and renanded the
prisoner. The is to be taken to the Supreme
Court by the attorney for the prisoner
Three other writS have been issued, in the cases
of J. H. Snowden, Frank Williams and II. Lawson.
The writs were made returnable before Judge Levy,
and he has postponed the hearing till the first Mon
day in August. The point to be raised is the same
in each case-that the preliminary examination was
had before Police courts, which have since been de-
clared by the Supreme Court to have had no legal
been a little Illness among the prisoners,
on account of the sudden change of weather a few
days ago, but there serious case, and the
trouble soon disappeared.
The equipment OF the prisoners has finally been
completed and they are now clad VITA clothing en-
TREY of distinctive manufacture This has in-
volved the making OF about 1000 uniforms, besides
somewhat trying to those who work in the gar
dens aud in the harvest Held but there was other
and that could be made at small cost.
Colonel E. O. Foster, Special Agent OF the Depart
ment of Justice visited the prison officially the
18th. and expressed himself being very much
pleased with the condition OF the United States
prisoners.
NIGHT SESSION.
An adjourned meeting OF the State Prison d.
Tectors was held In their room, 121 Phelan
Building. at IL: 35 last night, immediately on
their return by the tug boat Etna from their
meeting at San Quentin. Director DevIin pre-.
sided. Directors de Pue, Sonntag aud Craig
present Senator Reddy was indisposed
and teephoued that he could not attend.
On motion The bid on small white beans was
RECONSTRUCTED because only one sample was pre-
sented. The result was The acceptance OF j. F.
EDglishs bid
On motion 1t was agreed to purchase coal
at schedule prices from each of the bidders aud
receive lest report from the Warden and EUgi-
neer upon the qualities Of each sample. The con-
tract will then be awarded.
The bid On wood was rejected because 1t was
too high. and agreement made TO buy the
wood III the open market
The bond OF b. ana NJ Isaacs for $4,000 for
guarantee OF water supply at the Preston ScnOol
of Industry 20 be erected al lone. Amador Coun-
ty. was placed on the table for inspection. The
suretes are NJ. Lindner, a merchant OF Wood
land in 100000, aud Jacob Lew Jr. of This city
in $4,000. Other sureties are yet 10 be secured.
The bond will be given further consideration.
Directors Craig and De Pue committee on
electricity, reported, recommending the lighting
OF San Quentin Prison grounds, buildings and
cells by a double plant OF the are and incandes-
cent sytems. Action was deferred on the re-
port, aud The meeting al journed.