The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
INCREASE OF SAN
QUEN7IN'S ROLL
Turkeys List Grows,
While Deaths Are
Fewer.
But Three Executions at the
Prison During the Past
Year.
Parole System Praisad In a Report
to the Board of d.
reCtOrS.


4.-The pitiiuI case OF Joseph Cook, the en-
bezzling Police Court clerk of San Francis
CO, came before the State Board OF Prison
Directors to-day. Cook is dying at Fol-
som from asthmatic troubles, and he has
filed an application with the Directors for
parole. Cook was sentenced for eight
years, and was first brought to San Quen.
| tin. His affection made q change of loca-
tion necessary, and he was transferred to
Folsom.
The trouble has now become so serious
that COOKS death is expected, and so his
application for parole has been pressed,
and the papers in the case were sent down
from Folsom that the Prison Directors
might act to-day. However, letter re-
| ceived from Warden Aull of Folsom
| stated that the man is not in danger oil
dying within couple of weeks, and the
Prison Directors resolved to let the matter
go over until the meeting at Folsom.
David McKean's application for parole
went over for one month during which
time the prison authorities will commu.
nicate with the San Francisco officials in
regard to the case. Mexican was sent ur
from San Francisco for burglary.
Samuel Brandt. alias Goldstein. green.
goods man, sent up from San Francisco
for grand larceny, made an application
for parole, but the directors denied it.
Henry Beavers application for parole
went over, and the authorities in Tulare
County, whence Beaver came to serve a
sentence for grand larceny, will be com
m unicated with.
Warden uaIa .ubr,;ttad biz -
port for the forty eighth fiscal year, and
The reports of captain of The yard, turn
key, resident physician, chaplain and pa
role clerk were passed upon. Special ref
erence was MADE to the low cost per capita
of maintaining the institution. II has
been but % cents per day.
The turkeys report shows quite ali in
crease of prisoners during the year, the
average having been 1895 as against
l27935 for the previous year.
The report Of the resident physician
shows decrease of six in the NUM- Der OF
deaths during the year. the total being
twenty-five, which includes three execu-
tions. viz : Marshall J. Miller Frank KIoss
and Chum Sing.
The Salvation Army comes in for COM
mend alton a. the chaplain's hands rs
follows: II commend most highly the
work Of the Salvation Army, VINO have
manner in taking temporary care of pris-
oners upon their discharge and have
found steadv employment for quite a
numbsr of them. Their efforts in this
direction cannot be praised too much and
sh ould be encouraged in every possible
manner"
The parole clerks report shows that
twenty-five prisoners applied for parole
during the year and fifteen applications
were granted by the Board of Prison Di-
rectors. Tweniy-fonr prisoners in all are
at present at liberty on parole and their
reports show all OF them to be steadily
employed IN various occupations and TO
lead thrifty and ind dustrlous life.
while this law has been in operation
only two years. the report reads; ''ts
effect, so far as administered by your
selves, with but one or two exceptions,
has been an unqualified success and bene-
fit to the prisoners released under its pro-
visions"
The jute mill during the last six mont Is
of the fiscal year, under the superin tend
enoe of c. E. Alden, has been increased a
considerable degree without correspond
ing increase In the running expenses,
which, on the contrary. were lowered to
some extent. thus enabling bags to be
produced at lower cost. The dem and
for grain bags has been very good The
prospective change in the tariff law
nad the tendency to stiffen the MAI ket
and the prison authorities were enabled
to sell all the bags on hand alta handsome
profit, amounting to $25. .991 81 for the
year. The outlook is that prices will rule
higher.
During fair weather prisoners to the
number Of from fifty TO sixty have been
kept at work on the San Rafael Tiburon
boulevard without interruption. The re-
port in regard to this great Marin County
Improvement reads as follows:
"The work is progressing very satisfac-
toriIy and the road from San Rafael to
Greenbr is about completed. In order
to expedite progress on the road across
the marsh from Green brae, the construc-
tion of which entails very long haul of
m material, track has been laid with rails
donated by the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railway, and upon completion of
the road toward San Rafael work will be
rapidly pushed across the marsh, as we'll
as on the branch road to Ross Valley.
While an immense amount of labor is re-
quired for these roads, they are being
built In most substantial manner, and
when completed this will be one OF the
best constructed roadways in the State
of California, fully deserving the name OF
boulevard already bestowed upon il by
the citizins of Marin County,