Show 1 r r T T T Y T T T T T T AflEY ON THE STA Warden Idaho Pen Gives His Side of Story EXPLAINS TESTIMONY GIVEN Declares That Ho Has Never Permitted Per-mitted Anything to Bo Stolon Prom the State Institution Neither Has He Bcncfitted Personally Nor at All by His Position ns Warden Aside From His Salary But Two Witnesses Arc Heard in His Behalf Be-half TRIBUNE SPECIAL BoIse Ida Sept 25The Investigation Into the management of the penitentiary closed today with a statement by the war don No witnesses were put on his side except the deputy warden Donnelly who testified yesterday Tho warden explained with respect to many ot the articles alleged al-leged by various witnesses to have been removed from Ito prison Ho said In the cose of the flour that ho hind purchased other flour and replaced what had been taken Tools etc had been returned With reference to quite a number of such ho said they had been returned last Saturday The warden oporcd his statement an follows I am not a thief nor the son of a thief nor the brother of a thief I havo never stolen nor permitted anything to be stolen from this institution nor havo T benefited personally nor nt nil by the position po-sition I have aside from my colors Now referring somewhat In detail to ho Hinders that have been gone over In this examination I have carried on a iy Um of exchange that la loaning and borrowing with my brother with Hammer Ham-mer Godwin Coson fJonI occupants of Kcllv Hot Springs Frank Young C B Jnackson Dr Colllster Grant Whllnoy and a man from Highland valley STATE SUFFERS NO LOSS By virtue of these relations the Institution Insti-tution ban Buffered no los sin my Judg mont and the Improtanco of siiGlalnlng friendly relations with my neighbors hero iii much more Important than it would bo with a person conducting a private enlor irlsc for tho reason that we have so nany trusties who are pent about and from tho reservation In the performance of the ordinary duties Incident to Its management man-agement With regard to the plgtaklng the warden war-den said Sometime last Hummer near he close of our hog Mckncns Harry and I were looking over the pigs one day and we saw a weak pig I judge It would weigh forty or llfty pounds J believed It could not live without special attention atten-tion and ml lie ouch iu wo could not afford to give here J allowed him to take JU I iclleve the pit died In three or four days from disease STATEMENT A LONG ONE The statement was very long and offered of-fered explanations of practically all the specific cases oC removal of property brought out In the case Mr Arnoy explained with reference to tho discrepancy between the amount drawn by Viurden halley during his first twenty months on the expense account and the amount drawn on the same account ac-count during the present administration for the corresponding period It was shown yesterday that Ilallcy had drawn 1397 II from the fund In twenty months and that Aniey had drawn 457433 during the corresponding period Mr Arne Ar-ne explained that Mr Ilalloy had many United States prisoners for boarding for whom the Slate wan paid The money received re-ceived went Into the cash fund In tIm lands of tho warden and was paid out on account of goods traveling expenses and other expenses of a general character FEW UNITED STATES PRISONERS The number of United States prisoners during this administration had been much smaller llallcy received from tho United States 6UO while only 10H had been received re-ceived since Mr Arnoy became warden Consequently the latter has had to draw much more from the expense fund by warrant t Tho board hold a meeting tonight to consider Ito matter Mr Bnssott was not present Ho asked that It go over until ho could attend It was In responoe to an Inquiry by telephone from the Governor asking If ho would object to a doclylon being made bv him the Governor and the AttorneyGeneral Decision Is Affirmed San Francisco Cal Sept 25 Collector of Customs Stratton has been notified bv the Treasury Department that his deem lon in the case of Mrs IL G Green of Portland Ore has been confirmed Sirs Green war recently lined J571 for not do 1 T T r i 1 T I V T T 1 T T 1 F T T clarlng tlc dutiable contents of her trunk when olio returned from Jaian |