Omaha daily bee., 1914-12-24
CONVICTS ENJOY
THREE MEALS DAY
Warden Gives Their Menus in Re-
port Filed with State Board
of Control.
TWELVE MEN HAVE DEGREES
This Number out of Four Hundred
and Thirty-six Are College Gradu-
ates-State House EN-
plOyes Paid.
(From a STAFF Correspondent


az the state penitentiary feel little OF the
conditions covering the high cost of liv-
ing and appear to get three pretty good
meals each day, no matter whether the
price of foodstuff is high or low. A re
port filed with the State Board of Con-
troll gives the menu at the institution
for the three meals as follows:
Breakfast-Fried bacon. brown gravy,
fried potatoes, wheat bread and coffee.
Dinner-Roast pork, boiled navy beans,
stewed turnipS and coffee.
Supper-Cottage fried potatoes, brown
graVy, hot biscuits, syrup and ira.
Produce of Farm.
other interesting parts of the report
show that among the many things raised
on the penitentiary farm by the conviCts
vas SlO24 worth of potatoes, 5000 of
pork 81 1872 of alfalfa. Sl,S6S of milk, 81 1855
Of wheat
During the bicnnium there have been
43j people in the institution, OF which iOS
wese male and eight female. OF these
ISL were white, fifty-one negroes, two In
dams, one Chinese and one Japanese.
Twelve Uni Grades.
Eighteen had no education, fifty-three
primary education, 293 common school.
sixty high school and an even dozen were
educated in a college or university.
There were 80 who were single, 1i3
married. seven widowed three divorced
and three did not know whether they
were single, married. widowed or di-
vorced.
Under the head of nativity, seventy
nine were born in Nebraska. 269 in the
United States outside of Nebraska and
fifty-two were foreign born. Illinois
furnished thirty-four Iowa, thirty-five;
Missouri. twenty-eight, and New York,
seventeen.
When They Worked.
Occupations run into every class nearly,
the following being among the number:
BARRIERS. fourteen cooks, thirty-one;
farmers, eighty-nine; firemen, ten; la
borers, ninety; porters. twelve; team
sters, twelve. The balance run into the
single figure and show that there is one
professional ball player, three cowboys,
two printers, one policeman, one sailor,
one soldier one undertaken and one trav-
cling saleslady.
There eighteen in for murder, eight for
mansaughter, one is under death SEN
tence, ten are in for life and two for
twenty-five years.
Salary Warrants in Advance.
Monthly salary warrants have been
drawn in advance by the people of the
state house out of respect to Santa Claus
and the Chritmas feeling that they needed
the money. State Treasurer George has
made an effort to help the thing along
by cashing the warrants of the employees
so far as the money would go in order
that the monthly recompense might ex-
tend along Christmas lines as far as pos
sible.
DeIzeIIs Next Berth.
For a prohibitionist. State Superntend-
ent James L. Delzell feels that his future
is to be along pleasant lines If he desires
to make it. Having accepted a position
in one of the state normal schools of
Wisconsin he has discovered that the
town in which the school is located, has
sixty-two saloons with a population Of
only 1900 people. When Mr.. Delzell
reaches the town there will be 1893 people
to each saloon. Mr.. Delzell invites his
friends to come up as there is plenty
of room for all.
A requisition for l.. G. Graham, whom
the authorities of Lancaster county have
been looking for for nearly year was
issued by Governor Morehead this aft
ernoon. Graham is wanted for forgery
and is being held in Tulsa, ok. Deputy
Sheriff Antilles left this afternoon for his
man, but expects he will resist being
brought back He is charged with forg-
ing check and having it cashed by the
Lincoln Safe Deposit company for 500
signing the name of j. E. Martin.