The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-05-26
WESTERN LEAGUE.
LOCAL PICKINGS.

Nine arrivals and three departures during the
past week.
The heavy rains of the past week did very lit.
tie damage about the prison.
1t takes from IS to 40 loads of sawdust per day
to feed the furnace in the boiler room.
The Stewards garden truck has grown right
out of itself in the past few warm days.
The paper sent to Frank Ribe. GAINESVILLE.
Minn is not called for at the post office.
Asst Deputy Glennon has been spending a
few days in Dubuque. Iowa, his old home.
The Irvine output reaches nearly 5000 pounds
some days and averages about 1850 pounds per
day.
Clerk Hayes, of the St. Cloud Retormatory.
and Mr.. Bohn. of the State University, visit
Monday.
wood & Sawyer's orchestra" has been play.
ing on the wood pile the past week. and the cords
have suffered.
WIN. R. Sanborne. travelling correspondent Of
the Chicago Times. spent an hour or SO looking
over the prison Saturday.
Statement of population May rs: Working
for Thresher Co.. 1877; working for state l64 sick
and infrm, 10. Total population, 331.
-Supt. Hanlon of the Irvine factory is very
happy. His family arrived the other day and they
will 60 to housekeeping in saltwater.
The Warden got home last Thursday morning
from his trip to the hemp growing district of Ken
lucky. He secured fine lot of fiber.
The boys opened wide their eyes when they
marched out of the dollhouse last Thursday morn.
ing and found the ground covered with snow
DIR. Merrill is attending national convention
of Railway Surgeons at Old Point Comfort. Vir-
ginia. He went Saturday and will be absent
about ten days.
All the machines running in the
Irvine factory, but not quite at their full capacity
Many OF the hands new and it will take little
time to break them in.
-Supt Coven of the tub and pail factory has
been appointed building inspector for the city of
saltwater. He says the honors of the Office far
outweigh the emoluments.
--Hr. John Hitzker of Winona accompanied
Sheriff Braey on his visit to the prison Monday,
consequently THE PRISON MIRROR will here.
after be found file in the finest tonsorial parlors
in Winona.
One of the late arrivals when asked in the
evening why he sat in the darkness said that he
didn't have a match With which to light his lamp
The guard kindly turned the button for him and
left him to wonder where the oil came from.
Manufacturing stopped in the tub and pail
factory last week, and in a few more days the
stock in the hands of the painters will all be fin
ished, then that department will be closed for
time, as the men are needed the retaining
wall.
Memorial Day will be observed holiday in
the prison. There will be an appropriate service
in the chapel in the forenoon. We understand
that St. Paul gentleman is to deliver the ad.
dress. The choir has been practicng on war songs
the past week.
"A former inmate of this place has just been
sentenced in New York to forty-nine years and
three months imprisonment for attempted train
robbery. As he got that for an attempt what in
the world would he have received if he had made
success of it? Just think of the lot of good time
he will have saved at the end of that time, if he
behaves himself.