The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-01-07

Mrs Alma A. Misener. of Minneapolis who
takes great interest in the welfare of number of
the inmates who we're sent from her city, visited
the prison Tuesday and was granted interviews
with several Of the boys. Mrs. Misener never
comes without bringing THE MIRROR a new sub
scriber-this time it is Mrs. DR.. La Pierre.
The Gazette corrects us for saying in the last
issue that the passenger train wreck. which hap
pened at the bridge in Schulenb ergs addition last
week, was the first accident of the kind ever oc
curing in Saltwater. The Gazette republishes an
account of a disaster that occurred in the city
Jan. 8. 1873. Our mistake was due to a statement
in one of the st. Paul papers.
The wise man who is acting as our exchange
editor for a time. has been bored very much by
the reasonless opinions expressed concerning
young Fields mental condition. We find this
scribbled on the margin of one of the exchanges:
"E. M. Fields refusal to eat the regulation prison
diet is proof positive Of his sanity. No sane man
would eat prison hash if he could get any other
food.'
The set of boilers that have stood idle in the
building south of the dollhouse for the past two
years. have been taken out. 1t was the hardest
job of work that Foreman Carlgren and his crew
have undertaken in long time. To get them out
Of the building, which had been built around
them. they had to cut roadway about two feet
deep and twelve feet long in the bed rock which
forms the surface about the building. Ike boilers.
which are nearly new, will be cleaned, painted
and put away.
BY order of the State Board of Health all the
inmates of the prison we're vaccina:ed last week.
Steward Hall scratched away nearly all New
that he says he wasn't worth a busted soap.bub.
Bile. few of the boys escaped for the timebeing,
but they will have to come up to the scratch"
when a new supply of virus is received. good
many of the boys thought that the smallpox was
around but so far can hear there is not a
case within a hundred miles of the prison.
Did you ever hear an editor sing3 You are
excusable If you did. for the singing editor
is rare bird. But we have heard him.. Editor
Gustavus Theden of the Minneapolis Weckoblad
is member of the Swedish Tabernacle Choir
which entertained us in chapel. Sunday. Mr..
Theden Is the basso profundo of the choir, and he
held up the hOnors of his journalistic profession
in the realm of song in manner that caused his
less gifted brethren of the quill present to feel
proud of him. That he may never catch cold or
lose subscriber is the wish of the boys here.
beginning with the first day of this year, all
the inmates will be graded in the matter of COM
pensation. The Warden announced in chapel on
New Years Day that the law for granting compen-
sation would hereafter be applied as meant. The
law says that for good conduct the convicts shall
receive compensation "for every day. except Sun
days and legal holidays. at average rate of ten
(1O) cents per day per convict. the comp nsation
to be graded. at the discretion of the warden,
from eight (S) to twelve (12) cents per day. The
difference in the rate of compensation to be based
not on the pecunary value of the work performed
but on the willingness. industry and good conduct
of the convicts" 1t will be in the new rules that
man will receive cents per day for the first
three months, after which time he may be ad-
vanced until he reaches the maximum of IL cents.