Show THIRTEEN YEARS IN N THE SALT L LAKE JAIL I i Sol Kimballs p Experience as Turnkey I HAS LOCKED UP AND I LIBERATED DIANY t His Success In Curing Dope I Fiends P Interesting Reminiscences of Salt Lakes Oldtime JailerDoc Clintons Favorite Prescription Vas Sulphur and Coal Oil Because Be-cause the City Had An Unlimited Unlimit-ed Supply of Those ArticlesHad to Furnish His Own Medicines Everybody knows City Jailer Sol Kfmhall He Is probably the oldest employee in the service of Salt Laks City today HIs connection with the I l1Unlcipal government began thirtesn rears ago and with the excePIon of a four years Lioeral administration has I never ended n this time he has seen thousands of faces has never ceased to study them and experience coupled with observation has made him the i most efficient energetic and at the same time easygoing individual ever at the helm of the city hostler lore than this the jailer has become an adminIster of medicine of some note He at present does nlnet nine onehundredths of the doctoring at the jaB and his accomplishments in the way uf curing the morphine habitfir teen case in allhave attracted widespread wide-spread attention If Sol were asked why h isnt tile laughing stock of the iocal wend of crIminals ru in days gone by he would own np and answer Experience And If he were asked why we do not want the Philippines he would answer in the same way Experience Is everything every-thing he believes and in saying s he speaks from experience Jailer Kimballs ins and outs Ot early prison lifeor rather Ills initiation into his present positionare entertaining entertain-ing to the listener for he tells them in away thats all his own He some H I i I + Ia t t IL JAILER SOL XIMBALL times goes over the whole thing with the older members of the fore and his reminiscences if caught by the phonograph phono-graph would begin about as this Thirteen years ago Time flies 01 I sure Why all the city offices were here then and old Solomon was chief They were great days and I remember how I came heregrecn as ra5 elt the Imslnessand went through the mill from start to finish The first day I got measureless Instructions In-structions from the chief and was told to have the prisoners work So I nut six men out to scrub the hall floor and when I turned my back they all ian I never saw them again It was enough to make a fellow feel bad to have that to explain on the very day of his employment em-ployment but the chief didnt scold He told me they were not the kind tf prIsoners to let out that I should have men I could trust So I bit upon Paddy Doyle for a trusty and put him to F I grooming the horses Padd Paddy stole all the currycombs and brushes at the I place while I was at dinner sold them I at a secondhand store and was found In a saloon dead drunk Sol went on to say that after Paddy I aped punishment everybody around the place thought they Quid do just as I they pleased with himeen the wo I + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t + + + + + t + t + ttttt + + tit I + it + + + + + t ra a + 5 + + r + J t u EL ill I + o t + S tT o u l + 11J + tJ a 4 + + + + + jI1J + DOPE FIENDS CURED BY JAIL ER KIMBALL + t + + t + + + + + + f + + + + + + t4 t + + + + + + tt + tttt + t + men He had three of them who did the kitchen work The door was never locked and one day they got out and after a long hunt Sol found theft at a circus in the southern part of town all drunk The jailer hIred an express wagon to haul them back but during dur-ing the ride the fairies shouted out to pedestrians Sol is our husband or Oh what fun we had at the cil cue They hugged him too and It gave the Impression that the Inexperienced Inexperi-enced Sol then ununiformed was a farmer with all his wives in town to see the show The third day Sol worked a kindly old lady called to see her daughter at the jail and he left them In the hall stepping out of sight but within hearing hear-ing He listened intently to all she had to say to her wayward child who by the time Sol appeared was blocks away The mother had been talking to herself 1 was taken in worse than that by a fellow named Murray continued rhe jailer He was in for drunkenness but 1 told him it was for murder The fellow tool It to heart he didnt know he wa drunk at the time Murder he exclaimed Yes murder I said and walked away laughing in my sleeve at Murrays terrified expression Yell it happened that the masons had been building a chimney in the jail and had sawed a little hole in the roof The chimney was built from the door almost to the ceiling of the second story and that night Murray tore It all down and crawled through He jumped across a tenfoot alley and down on to a barn about thirty < tHe t-He jumped twenty feet from that to the ground and Its a mystery to this day how he did It without killing hiMself hiM-self But he got away The jail was kept pretty full In those days and the chief came to me one morning and said Sol youre not giving giv-ing us enough men on the chaingang You have forty in there and only turnout turn-out fifteen YeJl I said the men are all unable to work TheYe all got sore arms or legs Ive examined them carefully and theres something the maHer with all of them He let it go for a time but when he spoke tome to-me again I insisted that he send for Dr Clinton to examine them Doc washed a pint of red paint off the bunch But It took six months to aan vince me that the men were not Tel lv laid up What faces they could pull when they unwrapped Ute bandages and displayed terribly inflamed arms and legs I never could understand it until Dot showed me how they pricked themselves with a pin and painted the soreThere There was a case That Doc Clin ton Docs anybody remember him Xo one did He used to get 3i5 a month and furnish his own medicines The city had a ton sulphur and a fivegallmi can of coal oil down cellar and when Doc was called no matter what the complaint he gave them coal oil and sulphur It used to puzzle me how he cured so many ailments wIth the same remedy In extreme serIous I cases hed give them a little Indian root also in the cellar but Doc always al-ways kept his i5 The jailer thought for a moment ot the most familiar faces in and about the jail Bph Kelly was one and was addicted to whisky hits Whenever lie got on a drunk he would have one md the only remedy for it was a big dlilll That was all light said the iallc but pretty sOOn every man In jaIl got to having them They lay on the floor and roll their eyes and squirm and I kick and even froth at the mouth and I was forever running to the drugstore after whisky Somebody said they were I making a fool of me but 1 wouldnt believe It It was six months befult I found it true The map had sDcml I all over town of course and every drunk we had went into a fit as sun as he landed in jail But one day 1 saw a fellow spit a piece of soap out of his mouth and that let the cat oUt Those fellows actually put soap in their mouths to make the frothing effect realistic Then we had six fellows w hui poi pretty mean and put them on read and water In three cells on the ground hoer moving all the other prisoners upstairs to keep them from passi = food to them After we thought they had been punished sufficiently they wee sent to the table again and there it leaked out that theyd been living on the fat of the jail passed down through a stovepipe from the door above Oh they played Jots of tricks and there was nothing they wouldnt do to cause nie trouble One man used to bring an oyster pie to his wife everyday every-day with a pint bottle of whisky inside of it Ve knew the womangot drunk but couldnt tell where the liquor came from These same women used to carry off all the new blankets we bought as petticoats and Sam Grlc used to eat pills of soap to make ohm look like a consumptive He worked upon my sympathies once and got it pardon That was a new one on me The last time the old hall was painted paint-ed It was done by four painters who got drunk on the city and got ninety days each to give them plenty of time to finish the job That was once we got even I I The jailer was once a prisoner him I self fIe considers it the toughest experience ex-perience of his life A man came to the jail with smallpox all unknown to I the officIals Everybody was exposed and it fell to Sol to take him to the pesthouse out near Fort Douglas He I was quarantined with the prIsoners and had to stay In the jail for two weeks Again the Jailer was called upon to move the sufferer over into I Parleys canon somebody having com I plalned that the penthouse was too near I the city During his two weeks con I I tlnement the jailer could only associate associ-ate with his prisoners and put in the time playing cards and listening to their I tales Doc Clinton fumigated the jail afterwards with coal oil and sulphur and Sol blew the city for new clothes I the best he could find Pete Miller the jailer believes was the toughest man ever In the city jail I He is doing tine lri Colorado for burglary burg-lary now Miller was In the hands of the local authorIties three days and in that time all but effected his escape es-cape twice He first changed clothes I with a lodger by preconcerted arrangement arrange-ment it was subsequently learned He I was detected In the office and on the second night of his confinement was caught sliding down from an upstairs window on a rODe of blankets Th 14ierphine Cure The accompanying cut shows the first four morphine eaters cured by Jailer Kimball with Dr J W Harveys discovery dis-covery The photograph was taken on the day they first went under treatment treat-ment and the cure was perfect The medicine is an herb found by Dr Harvey Har-vey of this city on the Colorado river In Arizona and it is a remarkable fact that although its powers have been amplY demonstrated the doctor never has used his discovery as a means of making money He is in the mining business and cares little for the life of 1 a medico He experimented first on Morphine Dutch of this city and effected ef-fected a cUre Jailer Kimball heard of it and having eight fiends In the city jail at the time determined to try the remedy In which he had but little faith Obtaining a bottle of the preparation prepa-ration from Dr HarveY he went to work on all of his wards The picture shows the four worst cases Ute subjects sub-jects having used the needle for from ten to twenty yearn It tools ten days to get them In condition to do anything for themselves but the magic liquid performed its work and none of the patients has ever gone back to the use of the drug Since then the cure has been Improved and strengthened and It has not yet been known to fall In Its errand of mercy FIfteen cases have been treated successfully by Jailer I Kimball the last beIng that of a man named DImick from Skull valley who was not even locked up while under treatment but came to the jail from time to tim for his dose A twoounce bottle of the preparation will cure the worst caRe Jailer Kimballs patients are grateful to him for the good work and very often call at the jail to see him The discovery was a great thing for the city Formerly there were five or more fiends always in the jail and It was a matter of some expense to keep them supplied with the drug If they I were deprived of it their screams made night hideous and could be heard for blocks around the city hall One man hanged himself In prison fur want of it I and a drunken woman one night found i a bottle belongIng lo another woman on I the wIndowsill drank its contents and died i I It was such things as these that drew Jailer KlmlJalls attention to the necessity neces-sity of a cure and with its aid and his cartful attention he has worked won I I ders I |