The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

Clinton, Iowa, were in saltwater Monday and
called at the prison wherein they were not much
surprised to find late fellow townsman. They
| came up on that gem of river crafts, the Lady
Grace.
Bishop John H. Vincent, Chancellor of the
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. will be
here on tho 22nd inst. He will address the in
mates in the chapel sometime between ten and
twelve O'Clock in the forenoon. An appropriate
address will be delivered to him by the prison C
L. s. C.
The boys who have been engaged for the past
two months saving out Eastwood broom handles
counted up Tuesday and found that they had got
ten out nearly twenty-five thousand handles.
Considering that they have not worked every day
this is pretty good showing. About ten thousand
OF the handles have been Kindred and are ready
to be turned.
Miss Fife Sinclair and Ida NJ Pike who have
been visiting DR.. and Mrs. Reyes. returned to
their South Dakota home Monday. Before going
away they and Mrs. Reyes presented the hospital,
library and MIRROR. each with bouquet of the
handsomest water lilies it has ever been our
pleasure to see.
Our worthy postmaster has at last got him
self located in new and comfortable quarters. The
prison post-ofice is now located in the room which
until recently was used as a store room for the
cellroom. He has everything nicely arranged
and is now prepared to give our community bet
ter mail service than enjoyed heretofore that is
it is possible for the service to be rendered more
efficient.
MIR. Isidor Kjellberg. editor of newspaper
called the Ostgoten. published at Linkoping Swe-
den. visited this institution last Saturday in
pany with Rev. Axtel Lundeberg of Minneapolis.
Mr.. Kjellberg, accompanied by his son, is making
a tour Of the United States. He is much inter.
ested in prisons and is making the visiting Of
them special feature of his tour. He expressed
himself as being unusually we'll pleased with the
apparent condition of things in the Saltwater
prison.. Sweden. we believe, was one of the first
countries to take active hold of the subject of
prison reform.
Even the oppressive conditions Of prison life
cannot suppress the hunting instincts of the In
dian. The other day John Morse, our full FLOODED
representative of the Chippewa tribe, absented
himself from his gang of co-shovelers for few
minutes. Presently he returned, from nobody
knows where, carrying his hat in hand as if he
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opened his countenance from ear to ear as he ap-
preached his fellow workmen. To the question,
''What you got, John?" he replied, me got UNI
come see." A look in the hat revealed six fat and
sleek young rats. To inquiries as to where and
how he had caught them he would point over his
shoulder in an indefinite direction and say, "Oh.
me get um." John is one of the original charac-
tiers.
The heavy rain storm of Sunday evening
played havoc with the board stockade on the west
side. and the flood brought down hundreds Of
yards of earth from the new Second street grade
A forty-feot section of the stockade was tumbled
down the bluff leaving free access for the mud
ladened water to flow over the top of the unfn-
ished wall The water deposited its mud around
the southwest corner of the paint shop. then
rushed down Main street like raging river. The
deposit of mud was more than two feet deep be-
tween the paint shop and the wall. and: although
teams have been busy ever since carting the
muck away,not much more than aiwagon road has
been made clear. Foreman Carlgren does not
use profane language, but we will bet that he
thought very concentratedly when he went out
Monday morning and found many of his tools
buried from sight in the mud.
Personals.
husband Guard Tiffany.