The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-30
FINDS KANSAS
IS VERY WET
water, Water Everywhere, and
Plenty of Other Stuff
to Drink.
SMYTH TELLS~OF TRIP
ONLY 1865 SALOONS IN PRoHIBI-
TON LEAVENWORTH
SMYTH TELLS~OF TRIP

went into cafe attached TO the Ma
tlonal hotel in Leavenworth and ordered
meal. Knowing that the state was pro-
hloition, the governor a radical prohibi-
ZIONIST, everything in the laws and the
constitution prohibition, ! was naturally
timid about asking the waiter
presume, said I, that il is impossi-
Die 10 have a glass Of beer with ones
meal here?
No, sah,' said the waiter
But ! thought that everything was
closed tight. It's prohibition, isn't u?'
es, sab An reckon it am
but aren't all the saloons cIosed?'
es, sab: all but a hun'red an sixtv-
ItFe-they was talking about closin' of
mem, 100. but l reckon they didn't close
The above is from the testimony Of Cap
tam L. II Smyth. chief deputy United
states marshal bearing on LeaVenworth
ran; d city a 2s,Oc5 people, where is To-
cated the biggest soldiers home. the
Greatest military post. at least In the
west the Kansas states prison.
Finds Lots Of Water.
Not often does il fail within the limits
OF the fortunes OF men to run railroad
trains over great bodies Of water or he
passenger on a train buffeted abOu, by
we waves or a vast and desOate sea.
let Captain Smyth. chief deputy United
states marshal. is one who has undergone
this eventful experience
captain Smyth returned yesterday after
a Trip 10 the federal prison at the LeaVen-
worm military reservation, whittier he
took DR.. Edwin 5. Payne, convicted i'm
the United States court on the charge of
violating the postal laws.
Ut. Payne never referred 10 his Of
tense. nor, of course, did / on our trip.
which was prolonged on account of the
Iloods, said Captain Smyth. The old
man joked and told stories all the wav TO
IsEdNElWOrIl N vel
III II came time for me 10 bid him good
bye.
The Face Toward the Wall.
We. Jack Hardy and myself. treated
the old doctor more as a guest than q
prisoner, well knowing that he was not
likely to attempt to escape When IL
came time for me 10 leave / asked per
mission OF the warden to bid the doctor
good-ble. II was granted. One of the
rules OF the prison is that when a visitor
passes. the inmate must turn his face
toward the wall. leaving whatever task
he Is engaged in at the time unfinished
30 when l went 10 say the last word 10
the old doctor. he stretched out his hand
behind him. and as / clasped IT, | felt the
tfem9r shake hint was his first hu-
initiation. And tears Welled up and came
down his furrowed cheeks
Vast Seas of Water.
Il don't think | ever saw so much wa
ter in all my life in a place where there
IA
the captain, graphically There were
seas OF Il; oceans of il. There was water
everywhere, and IL was certainly a pitiful
sight TO see those hundreds of thousands
of acres OF fine wheat and waist-high
corn laid by the flood. When we were in
Kansas City | was told that the water
was within five inches of the bridges
which was an inch or TWO below the mark
reached two years agO-if there's any con-
ISOLATION in that. Happily, there is still
time TO replant. and the people in the
districts where the water has gone down
are already putting in new crops. I am
told that this is not an extraordinary Oc-
currence and that, somehow, the human
body and the mind adjust themselves TO
IT, But so far as / am concerned [
would like To have just a little less fer
tility of soil in uninundate1 districts and
a little more peace Of mind where we are
lging right here.
1.-The old prison at LeaVenworth has
been abandoned and the government IS
building one that, in its construction, Is
now about half completed. They ha re
room for 2,4O0 prisoners and when they
get the other buildings finished there will
be room for 500. There are now about
100 prisoners at leaVenwOrth. only few
of whom are military. Ii is expected,
however. that since the new order mas
gone out that the defendants sentenced
to terms OF more than a year shall go TO
I.eavenwOrth, the institution win be rap
idly filled.
CAPTAIN Smyth turned over TO deputy
at Cheyenne Fred Bennett arrested 1t
Ogden on a charge Of having forged a
money order in Wyoming.