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Show Discontent prevailed in every department. depart-ment. The warden rarely inspected the interior workings of the prison. He hardly ever ventured within the walls, for tho reason that he had become so unpopular with the prisoners that lie was afraid that tlicy would carry out their threat of "doing him up." Captain Cap-tain Amos was ably u.-sisted in his peculiar pe-culiar management by his son Hilly, who was as profane and abusive to the guards anil the prisoners as his father. They made a fine pair, indeed. 'The wonder is that they were not thrown into the prison ditch and given a good ducking by the guards. The Times' interviews prove conclusively con-clusively that ('n plain Amos' interview in the Tiibune was a tissue of falsehoods. They show also that Marshal Mar-shal Parsons was fully justified in removing re-moving him from the position he had disgraced for months by his incompetency, incom-petency, bullying and profanity. (Jap-tain (Jap-tain Amos ought to have been removed some time ago, and Marshal Parsons would probably have ejected him long b:;fore this had he not been engaged in a light to secure his confirmation against the bitter opposition of the Tribune element. Tim Tijiks predicts thai under the management of Iho new warden, Mr. Vamlercook, the Utah penitentiary will soon become a model prison so far as eireumslu'ices will permit.' There is one great dilicieney, however, in the institution, and Unit is the utter lack of employment for the inmates. Some daily employment should, if possible, be provided, as the prisoners would be imii'li more contented mill healthy if they huil souii'thlng to 1I0. THE UTAH PEN ITKN'Tl A It V. Tlin interviews with tho penitentiary guards and oilicials, as obtained by a Times representative, and published in j today's issue, show pretty conclusively i that change in the office of warden was an absolute necessity. The guards unanimously denounce Captain Amos, the ex-wurden. as a tyranieal bully, a profane and abusive man, and a person who lacked every element of discipline so necessary for the chief officer of a penal institution. Under tho management manage-ment of Captain Amos the peniteutiary was a, very poorly governed prison. |