New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-04-26

that county have not long since cause6
grand juries to investigator into the shame
A prisoner certainly has the right to re-
ceive humane treatment, and Redwood
and Renville counties, at least, should
take steps to see that they receive it,par:
ticularly, if they are paying another
county to decently care for their wards
1t is probably also time that the secreta.
ry Of the State board of corrections and
charities take a trip outside of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, and make an investiga-
ton into and report on this alleged in
question:"
1t is unfortunate, for the Gazette, that
its field of action is so limited that it
must go outside its confines to give its
readers sensational news. Its main hold
for the past six months has been an in
Fiction upon an indulgent but disgusted
public of whole columns of sensational,
unreliable, oftimes scurrilous matter
that would be vastly more appropriate to
the Police Gazette and publications of a
similar nature. Its appetite increases S
with what it feeds upon, and now it re-
sorts to interviews with prize6ghters,
thugs, buns and those who are outside
the pale of law to keep up its weekly
digest of unsayory romance. AS last
resort, It's editor falls upon the bosom of
noted tough, and, inspired through the
medium of this unholy alliance, he at
tempts to malign one of Brown County's
most conscientious officials.
Let us consider the source from which
the Gazette gets it's statements and learn
from what corrupt fountain-head of
thought it would expect anything like a
pure train of truth to flow.
Calvin R. Thurbcr is prizeighter and
all-round rogue; he deserted his wife
| and left her to care for herself-an act for
which she is no doubt thankful; he was
on the eve of marrying one of the women
who lived across the river from Red
wood Falls when he was arrested; he
corlesponded while in Jail with woman
in Wisconsin of like stamp with himself,
and is now in that state ostensibly for
the purpose of marrying her; his every
day conduct while in jail was marked
by the gross insults which he directed
towards the ladies Of the sheriff's house.
hold,and his fellow prisoners say that he
was tic foulest-mouthed, worst crank
and tilthiest man in his tobacco habits
and in his bedroom of any confined in
the jail during the entire winter. Mrs.
Thurbcr, we mean the one who lives at
Belview and not the others, is eagerly
waiting for the day when she may drop
her married name, claiming that Thurbcr
is too mean a man to have anything to do
with. This, then, is the source of the
Gazette's article. Immediately after
rcadingit, theReview sought admission to
the Jail and made tour Of inspection.
Instead of filth and dirt, we found the
floors scrupulously clean and spittoons
neatly arranged. We made personal
inspection of beds and bedding and were
more than pleased with the cleanliness
that was apparent; there was not the
slightest stencil or smell to offend the
nostrils of the most aesthetic Thur
Der excepted; the walls are white
as though the artists brush had but lef
them, and from the outhouses there emf
mated no smell whatever. Four of thu
cells are light while the other four, from
their location are not so much so, bu
fall far short of the "horrors of the in
QUESTION" Two prisoners sat around
warm coal stove, enjoying their newspa
pers, and, when asked how they Jared
replied, ''We have no complaints t.
Offer" We left the jail room convinced
in our miGd that before an editor .goe
hunting for sensations, he should appris
: himself of the size of his game. W
then told Sheriff Anderson why we ha,
visited the Jail and he was conslderabl
hurt at the Gazette article and told Ii
where he bought bis. provisions. w
visited each place he mentioned and tn
merchants informed us that he bough
the best in butter, meats, teas and coffee
that the market afforded. For the las
six months the lowest price he paid TO
= butter wastseventeen cents while the ay
erage price was twenty cents per pound
His tea, uncolored Japan, cost him fft,
cents and his coffee twenty-five pc
pound; his meats he always selected him
self and his dried fruits he bought a
good as any in town. Everything h,