The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-02
ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME
FOR THE NEBRASKA RANCH
MEN.
JA|LERs AT SWELL CLUB
A Telephone and Electric Lights
Added to Rugs, Easy Chairs, Books
and the Chef, Won't Make That
Federal Sentence So Hard.

Hastings, Neb., Dec Who wants
to be a ranchman way out on the
bleak, blizzard-swept Nebraska pra-
iries when he can spend the winter
in a jail that's more luxuriously ap-
pointed and comfortably furnished
than the best mans club in Kansas
City? That's just the way w. G.
Comstock, Aquilla Triplett and Par
son" Jameson feel about it tonight
after spending the first day of sent
ences of many months in the Adams
county Jail here. For their is a little
Jail de luxe, gilt edge, and all.
These are the western Nebraska
ranchmen who were found guilty in
the federal court at Omaha of unlaw-
fully fencing government lard for
range purposes. They We're permit
ted to select the Adams county jail
to serve their sentence in AMI now
even the deputies around the Jail
believe they're stewards at swell
club.
Their first day the ranchmen spent
in fixing up for their winters stay
Besides covering the floor with Turk
ish rugs, installing comfortable loung-
| ing chairs and book cases with a
carefully selected library, they also
will have telephones and electric
I lights. But this is a sad blow, for a
day or two they must eat the regular
prison fare. The Japanese chef en-
gagged to prepare their meals cannot
reach Hastings for several days.
Bartlett Richard, brother of ex-
Governor Richards of Wyoming, will
join the trio next week. Comstock
and Richards are sentenced to one
year each; Jamison to ten months,
and Triplett to eight months. They
will be permitted to furnish their
cells as they please. Their relatives
have leased a large home near the
Jail.
Shortly before retiring tonight the
millionaire trio looked carefully
around their newly furnished quar-
ters and talked about the improve
ments that had already been made.
Jamison expressed himself as being
entirely satisfied with the appearance
OF things, and Triplett also said he
had no kick coming. But Comstock
was of the opinion that there was
plenty of room for improvement. AS
he has rented the spacious oswald
Oliver home for his family during
/ his stay in Hastings, he is more than
anxious for the installment of the
telephone which has been ordered to
be in operation tomorrow. Then he
can talk with his wife at will and
also dictate the menu to the Japanese
chefs.
AS the rules of the Jail prevent
] pl lSOlltIS llOill Will NloI-
tors except in the presence of the
jailer, the installation of the tele-
phone will give the prisoners an op-
portunity to talk secretly with friends
as often as they please. 1t will also
give the prisoners an opportunity to
take all of their business affairs in
the Jail with them and enable them
to dictate at almost any time all
kinds of business transactions.
Up at Alliance, in Box Butte coun-
ty, where the prisoners" came from,
there is much sympathy expressed in
their behalf. The Alliance Herald, in
commenting upon their conviction
this week. said:
But few men have done as much
for the development of This country
as these men. From land that for
merly was as unproductive as a des-
ert waste they have brought forth
taxable wealth; by giving employ