The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-03-15

Deputy Warden Lemon went to st. Paul
Tuesday morning in charge of Andrew Wilson
who was cited to appear that day before the
State Supreme court on writ of habeaS corpus.
Received 3. March -, one. Morrison Co.
grand larceny end degree; one year: March 10
one, Brown Co. perjury, three years and three
months: one Ramsey Co. grand larceny, reforma-
tory plan
To the prisoner sending THE MIRROR to
Jerry O'Connel, Hamilton. Mimi. notice is here
by given to discontinue sending the same as the
party to whom it is addressed is not resident of
that place.
The 'sick cells" are now located in the cell
room, block No. 1. ter No. 5. These cells here
tofore unoccupied. have been fixed up in nice
shape and are located in the most quiet part of
the cell room.
Engineer Jones went to st. Paul Saturday to
be in attendance at the installation of the Ma
tiOna Engineers Lodge which was to have taken
place there that day. The installation was post
poned for ten days
james II. Small representative Of the Amer
lean Citizen. of ST. Paul, in company with Asst.
Dep'ty. GennOn. took in the sights of this dOcile
community yesterday afternoon making our
office pleasant call
Mr. Alexander Richard. of the drug firm of
Richard & ,Jourdain of this city, Mr.. G. B. Rib-
bard, general passenger agent of the 'SOe'' road,
and Mr.. r. C. Judson, of st. Paul, were callers
at the prison Monday.
Foreman Mcclellan of the wagon shop is
mourning the loss of bran new pair of rubhers.
The parties who got them, however. were certain
ly possessed of some charity as they left him an
old pair as a mOmentO of the occasion.
Next Saturday. st. Patrck's Day. will not be
observed i'll our immediate locality, as we cele
brate legal holidays only. and congress- by some
oversight. has thus far neglected to name st.
Patrick's Day among the legal holidays of our
nation.
The county commissioners of Dakota county
under the escort of Manager j. f. Norrsh, of
Hastings. paid the prison a visit Friday and in
company with Warden Wolfer. took in all the
sights not forgetting to make THE MIRROR a
brief call.
John b. Donaldson. editor of the North &
West. of Minneapolis, and Harry Il. Danner. of
the law firm of Banner & McBeath. of this city in
company with Usher Kenyon made tour of the
prison Monday paying THE MIRROR office a
pleasant call.
We are indebted to editor F f. Barnum of
the Sank Centre Avalanche for photOgra oh of
our recent card of regrets to the State Editorial
| Association. 1t is Il perfect picture. and we
| thank Bro Barnllm for his ever thoughtful kind
ness and courtesy toward us.
Another noticeable Improvement in the cell
room is the absence of coal oil upon the walks.
Previously the iron walks have been oiled every
day to- prevent them from rusting but the neces
sity did not cOunterbalance the o1ensiveness of
the custom. hence its discontinuance.
Yesterday we received a package from Jas.
| Vick's Sons the famous 1Oricuturalists and seed
| growers. of Rochester, y. V. containing thirty
varieties of choice flower seeds. See their ''ad''
| in another column of this paper and send for a
copy of their beautiful catalogue for 1891
| One of our southern colored brethren has
| been appointed street commissioner. and right
we'll he fills the position. Each day he may be
seen with broom in hand and ScOOp-shOvel behind
his ear perambulating up and down Park Ave
nue. attending faithfully to his new duties
The prison tailOrs are kept pretty busy these
days getting out First Grade suits. Gray seems
to be the favOrte shade in spring suitings in
locality the present season. while cheeks are
ular and few orders coming in for this style
| of goods
Warden WOfer is receiving letters daily
| from members of the National Prison association.
who will be present at the meeting to be held in
| st. Paul from June l6 to 20. This meeting is
destined to be of the best the association
| ever held and the attendance bids fair to exceed
300. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
| Yesterday Warden Wofer sent out some
| four hundred samples of binding Irvine. the
price of which, the present season will not exceed
seven cents per pound. and in case of necessity
| the price may be even less in order to meet COM
| petition of any Irvine OF equal length and quality
| that may be placed upon the market.
! A pair of brOgan shoes which had recently
been repaired in the prison cObbler shop. was
given out few days ago to one of the boys in the
bakery who. after wearing them awhile and not
| feeling them altogether comfortable, took them
off and proceeded to investigate their interior;
after perambulating inside of them awhile. he
brought forth from each. first an artificial inner
SOLE under each of which was carefully folded
newspaper, which upon further investigation,
proved to be two remarkably we'll preserved
copies of THE PRISON MIRROR of August oath
| 1887 Vol, l. NO,3 Whoever wore these shoes