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Show inniufi J Excellent Menus for Prisoners at Prison and County and Gity Jails. NUTS AND CANDIES FOR PENITENTIARY CONVICTS I Everything Done to Make the Inmates Feol Good for Ono Day at Least. From the most deaperato convict in the State penitentiary to tho least offcu. sivo prisoner in the city jail, everybody in the penal institutions of tho city was remembered by Santa Glaus Friday. At tho Stato prison as well as l)oth the city and county jails the inmates wore served with excellent .dinners, tho menu at oach being an elaborate one. For tho first time in the history of the institution nobody was allowed to visit the Stato prison Friday,, owing to tho smallpox scare which is now prevalent prev-alent in the city, although tho inmates wero served with a fine Christmas dinner. din-ner. The menu included roast pork and dressing, masnea potatoes and Drown gravy, pickles, npplo pie, cake, tea and coffee, oranges and bananas. Every convict within tho walls of the prison was given the same bill of fare, from the trusties to thoso in solitary confinement. Among the latter were Abe Majors and Joe Sullivan, tho two most desperate criminals inside the Utah prison. Aside from tho dinner, tho prisoners at tho Stato prison wero given another little treat which perhaps impressed more than did the dinner itself. This was a remembrance from tho Young Peoples' Christian Endeavor societies of the city, otherwise known as the Young Peoples' Christian Union. This organization organi-zation sent each ono of the prisoners a box of candies and nuts, and upon the recoipt of this little tribute, tears could be seen in some of tho prisoners' eyes. At tho City Jail. Tho sixty-five prisoners at the city jail were eivon an excellent Christinas dinner, which consisted of roast pork with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, celerv, English plum pudding with vanilla sauce, mince pie and coffee. Each man and woman, there being four prisoners pris-oners of the latter sex. had as much as ho or she could eat. The dinner was served at noon and Mrs, Pickett, who has charge of tho rations servod cit' jail prisoners, was thanked repeatedly for the fine dinner. Friends of a number of the prisoners sent in fruit and sweets with best wishes of the season, so, all in all, Christmas Christ-mas day at the city jail passed very pleasantly. More than ono expressed the opinion that if they could have as good things to eat every day as they did Friday the jail, wouldn't be a bad place in which to live. Of the prisoners in the jail, there is one murderer, E. L. McCormick, tho escaped es-caped convict from the Texas Slate prison, who gave himself up to the local police last Tiresdav. McCormick appreciated ap-preciated his treatment and thanked the jailers, wishing them a merry Christmas. Several Christmas days will pass before McCormick is a free man, aa a Texas officer is now on his way to this citato cita-to take the convict back to Texas. Other prisoners in the city jail have but a comparatively short time to serve, tho longest term being sixty days. The majority of prisoners are doinj time for vagrancy and with this class the jail is a winter home and tho fine dinner served Friday surely didn 't go amiss j with them, as it is ono of tho few they get during the year. Every prisoner took his lot cheerfully cheer-fully and by so doing nothing but good cheer existed in the city bastilo Christmas Christ-mas da3'. At County Jail. It has been a number of years sinco there were as few prisonors coufiued in the county jail on a Christmas day as wero thofe on Friday. They numbered num-bered but thirty-one. Of the number harbored in tho jail is one man, Thomas Vance, convicted of wife-murder in the first degree, but his treatment was the same as that given the other prisoners. At noon a chicken dinner almost as . good as served in any Salt Lake hotel was given each prisoner. 2o limit as to tho amount was made, each and every man getting as much as ho could cat. There arc no women prisoners. "With the chicken wero served celery, cel-ery, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and pie and cake as dessert. During the- course of the day a number num-ber of friends and relatives of the prisoners called and were permitted to visit the cells and talk as long as they 'desired with whomever thev wished. In this way tho day was made to pass pleasantly for tho unfortunates. After the serving of tho dinner to the prisoners they drew up a letter and sent it to the jail office, thanking Sheriff Emery for his kindness in giving giv-ing them such an excellent time on Christmas day. Sheriff Emery not only remembered the prisoners under his care, but sent a box of cigars to the jail for the jailers jail-ers and deputies who called in during the day. |