Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-12-23
A WASH0E CONSPIRACY
To Make Bell Warden and Move
the State Prison.

Already the busy people OF Washes
are conspiring for the removal Of tht
State Prison to Reno and the election
of Bell as Warden Of the peniten-
tiary. The Reno journal has open
cd ths ball as follows. 1t says:
There are l08 convicts in the Ne
vada State prison and the cost Of
keeping them is about 81. 10 per day
per capita. This is expensive aud II
the labor of the convicts can be util-
| lied, 50 as to make the pris Il self
sustaining, or nearly SO the Lagisla-
ture should see that it is dane The
cost per capita Of maintaining pa
tients in the Insane Asylum is not
one-half that of maintaining convicts
in the State Prison.
Now the above paragraph is float
about the State with the aim of ms
leading the members of the Legisla-
ture.
Two years ago Mr. Bell had q
printed statement, in the shape of
comparative tables to show how much
cheaper he had maintained the State
Prison than any osher Warden.
These figures had a splendid effect
in getting votes for Mr.. Bell until
the APPEAL showed their utter falsity
by printing the authentic figures
computed from the reports on file in
the Controllers office.
Then the Bell boom subsidized like
punctured toy balloon. This year
Bell is once more laying his wires
for the Wardcnship, and at the old
game of circulating gauzy statements
about the Prison or Asylum.
The cost Of maintaining the in
mates of the Asylum per capita ac~
cording to the report of 1889-9o,
was sixty~hvo and one>third cents.
See Commissioners report for 1889 90 !
page 40. Now having established !
by the biennial report the cost of
keeping insane patients in Reno, let
US look at the cost Of keeping con
victs in Carson
The report Of he Warden Of the
Penitentiary for 1880 81, the same
period is covered BY the Asylum re
port, was 4S cents per day per head,
a difference in favor Of the States
Prison Of II ID cents at Carson.
What the cost Of these institutions
are during the past two years we
have no means of knowing as the
report has not yet been made public.
As Mr. Bells friends are urging
HE great economy in expenditures
it may be wei to compare them with
his successor.
According to Bells report in 1889
"a it was 90 cents per head, during
1889 Sc it was A cents per head, an
average during the four years of his
of 495 cents, if the ,
were correct.
McCulloughs cost per head for
-887-S8 was 43 cents, for 1889 80
Is cents or an average of 455 cents, {
The scheme is now to move the |
Prison to Reno after electing Bell $
Warden. l
1t is claimed that Bell was promis-
d the Wardenship if he would join
he silver movement, and just before
lection, after this bait was held out =
0 him, he fell in line.
A man who has to be conciliated
18th the promise of fat Office to
lduce him to join the Silver party of .
Nevada is not the kind of silver b
IAN the rank and file are looking t
Or this year. Y
Again, who had the authority to r
romise Bell goods which could only
e delivered by the members Of the b
n
The removal Of the State Prison to a
emo wi! cost the State 100000 at :,
asst calculation. z
According to the showing made III d,
lie last reports, it might be good 4,
lea to move the Asylum to this city On
here the inmates can be maintained
a cheaper rate,