Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-06 | Page 3 | Reform School in Mates Are Mostly Mormons

KEKORM SCHOOL IXMATBS : ARE MOSTLY M0RM0XS Of the 140 Inmates of tlie Stnte Industrial Indus-trial school at Opden elfcluy-tlve. or almost al-most two-thirds, are of the Mormon religion, re-ligion, according: to .Superintendent H. II. Tliomus's hlcnnln! report. Just banded to the governor. Sixty of those are boys nnd twenty-live girls. Seventeen of thf other hoy Inniiites and four of tho girls he-long he-long to no denomination, following Is :i table showing the religion of all inmates: in-mates: 'Hoy.. Girls. Tot. Japtlst f, 0 G Catholic l.T 13 Christian . 1 1 2 Kplscopallnn ". I 1 - Greeks I n 1 .Methodist 1 : 3 Mormon CO S" Presbyterian I I j So denomination 17 1 21 Total 101 r.C 110 Salt Lake county sent 100 boys anil glils to tho school In the last hlonnluui. tho report shows, sixty-six of whom wrro hoys and only thirty-four girls. Four of these were sent up from the third district dis-trict court nnd tho mst from tho Juvenile Juve-nile court of this judicial district. Tho largest number aro between 1C and 17 years of age. There mo 1,11 whites lat the institution, five negroes, three of whom are girls nnd fwo boys, and one Indian boy. Delinquency was tho on use of most of tho commitments, .seventy -one hoys and thirty-five girls being scut up for this.