The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-12
San Quentin Authorities Will Pro-
coed to Enforce Their Regu-
lations With Severity
PRISON COMMISSION
SCORES GOVERNOR WEST
Belief Expressed That Vests %
Other Pleas for Mercy Have
Upset All Prison Discipline and
That General Unrest Resulted

SAN QUENTIN, June 1o.-The reign
of mercy at San Quentin is over, here
after it will be discipline tempered by
mercy, not mercy tempered by disci-
pine. Grubb, the guard who killed
Savage in the 'Grub strike" yesterday
with a repeating rifle, is in charge t.
night of the 'incorrigible cells"
Will Have Armed Guards
Warden Hoyle intends to begin
tomorrow a bridge across the interior
of the jute mill, ana armed guards
will patrol it during work hours.
Armed guards will also occupy at
meal hours, the balconies oyerhanging
the mess hall. Solitary confinement sor
life will be the punishment melted out
to the chief of the rioters, Fred How
ard Is his name and he Is veteran
Of the big break from Folsom in 1905.
Twenty lesser leaders have been sing
led out thus far for confinement and
bread and water for terms ranging
from three to six months. Probably
ten more will be punished by loss of
their credits.
Scare Governor West
In commenting on the outbreak,
Warden Hoyle said '.Lynwood, who
was killed yesterday was one of Gov
ernor Vests paroled men, Yes. as
! sented President Duffy of the prison
board, he was a graduate of Govern or
Vests school at Salem There is no
question in my mind" resumed Hoy,e,
"That Fremont Older, Donald Lowrie.
governor West of Oregon and all these
ether carhphierers are responsible ~,
unrest that is seething in the prisons
OF the country today, east and west"
Older Is the editor of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin and is heading a cam
paign for the pardon of Abraham
Rueff, Lowrie, paroled from San
Puentin, is protege of Older and the
author Of my Life in Prison But it
was or Governor West that Hoyle
conferred his attack in which COM
mitteemen Sontag and Duffy concur
red 81
Parole System a Failure
Gov. West he continued, sis more
than any other man on the Pacific
coast at least responsible by reason
OF his high position for the unrest
that is in all American prisons today
though Baker of Nevada and Others
have their share to bear. Warden
Baker was dismissed recently by Gov.
Oddie. Three prisoners broke Jail I'M
mediately afterward. "While Gov
West was here last, "Hoyle went on.
we received two of his paroled men,
and we have others here now. How
do think his system works in his own
penitentiaries I am not, perhaps, IN
position to judge, but l know he las
men out buying new rifles right now. .
State board of prison directors met
might to consider far more serious
situation than the information voucn-
safed yesterday would indicate in con-
nection with the outbreak in wnicn
one convict was killed and one wound
ed. The reason the jute mill was shut
down today is that the board received
information of a plot to fire the juta
and wreck the mill, the reason the
steam was turned into the kitchen yes
terday is that rioters were battering
at the doors of the locked cupboards
in which long butcher knives are kept.
The board is of the opinion that a
wave OF agitation for more sympa-
thetic treatment of prisoners that has
swept the country is misunderstood
in altering through the prison walls.
What policy the board Will adopt is
likely to be decided tonight though
It's force may not be felt directly for
several weeks. Warden Hoyle concurs
in this belief which is shared by a
majority of the board. A majority also
ascribe the revolt to the general un-
rest and belive that the so-calle]
Grub Strike" is only a blind. The mi
nority of the board to use the words
of one of them believes that convicts
nave been too much ''coddled and
nursed.' they believe the disturbances
of yesterday and the day before were
part of a serious attempt at a gen
eral jail delivery