The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-06-16
WESTERN LEAGUE.
LOCAL PICKINGS.

NO arrivals during the past week.
Which is it. Norway iron English steel?
Three men have gone out to freedom since
our last issue.
Warden Wolfer returned from Detroit yester.
day morning.
-Messrs. Dunn, Temple and Hall. Of the Board
OF Managers, were here Friday.
Our oldest inhabitant completed his twentieth
year in this institution Tuesday.
There a heavy demand for summer trou
last week.
The health of the prison is good, there not be-
ing of serious illness in the institution.
In few more days the Thresher company
will have completed its seasons stock of sepa-
rators.
The boys working out of doors have been sup
piled with straw hats-to protect their complex.
ion, of course.
Sunday was day Of torture in the cells, a
day to make the boys sigh for a spreading tree on
some breezy hill top.
Capt. Hall was perambulating the galleries
Tuesday night in place of Night Guard Anderson
who was under the weather."
Mr.. w. c. Forrest. of Blue Earth City, got in.
g ide of NJ. S. P. uniform shouldered gun and
mounted the wall Monday morning.
Statement of population June Is: Working
for Thresher Co.. 1885, working for state, 1866; sick
and intirm. &. Total population, 33l.
We are smoking ''Elkhorn" these days, but
the old horned Elk will have his turn one of those
days when old Ncotian has gathered US in.
They will soon be through excavating for the
new retaining wall. The excavated sandstone is
being hauled outside on fiat cars and dumped on
the lake front.
The lower floor Of the tub and pail factory is
being used for the temporary storage of binding
Irvine. 1t is very convenient as there is an al.
most direct elevator route.
"A new power shaft is being put up in the state
machine shop. This shaft will be driven by the
dynamo engine OF nights. Sundays or at any other
time when it is necessary to do work in the states
machine shop while the large engine is not run.
ming.
Gate Guard Flannery had mishap which has
kept him at hume for several days. He was en-.
deavoring to off the bottom of too.long
screen door when the saw slipped and caught his
leg just below the knee cap making very ugly
wound.
Prison Physician Merrill has taken unto him.
self a drug store, and is now prepared to supply
the suffering public with any kind of dope from
dog button to dray load of pills. He has bought
the j. c. Hening establishment, which will be
known in future as the Chestnut Street Pharmacy.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ w. Bright. accompanied by
Mr.. Brights mother and sister who from
Pennsylvania on a visit. were shown the prison
by Hospital Steward Hall last Friday. Mr.. Bright
is the gentleman who has just sold to Pris on Ply
scian Merrill the drug store which he had but
recently bought of Mr.. J. c. Hening.
Puck is in sackcloth and ashes, in his front.
page cartoon Of June 18th, and says, in explana.
ton of the penance Its the first time ever be-
lieved Blaine. and ought TO have known better"
The cartoon includes a small reproduction of
Pucks front-page cartoon of February 3d. 1888,
and. altogether suggests that Mr.. Blaine's state
ments regarding his withdrawal are not to be i'm
plicitly relied upon.