Show THE UTAH PENITENTIARY By Bj the cOUlte courtesy y of the governor a and aud d the prison board the writer viter boa bas been beet permitted to visit the tho p penitentiary and to get et out It i 15 a very wonderful institution in and we Jo not tot believe e that DUO oue person in n a thousand in Utah realizes realizes real real- i izes cs what splendid work ork is being performed performed per per- formed there in the interests of the tate and and of of the prisoners In In the first place it fi is s only ony justice to say sar that the of the tho prison is altogether magnificent Every possible precaution is taken to insure the order of the prison and to avoid all pos possibility of or in in- Then the system includes cs every overy possible sanitary pr provision to in insure n sure the tho health of ot the tho prisoners such 3 as re regular lar baths a a. perfect laundry a 3 perfect bake take shop bop every e precaution to insure absolutely pure arid aud wholesome food better bread than mo most t people nto in n to town u cat plenty of f vegetables e l enough h meat and of the tho best bet kind kind no no female Lemale could b be better arranged for forthe tho the comfort end and nd health of the inmates The yard rd has bas been doubled in size to get et moro more room for the exercise of the prison prisoners or The work ork that the thc governor and Dr Pfoutz the warden wardeD and deputy warden ar am aro doing there is altogether cr splendid and anI as enJi enlightened as can be ho found in inAn An any place where men are congregated in r JI large groups and nd d held for any auy purpose There ou ought bt to b bo ho a a. cb change n o in the state constitution to enable the better exorcise exercise of or the men especially at certain er tain fain seasons ea A simple change which wron wrong BO one on OD the fhe he outside c could ld it have havo been m made do a year oar ago IO it would woula have ht enabled the fhe pr f to carp earn without competing with O laborers enough b money to make the in- in self supporting And Aitt still wo we arc more convinced than ever that the penitentiary ry is not tot a good place for tor or a 3 hardened cd felon Some inland j with good goodsoil od iod toil soil good climate where do- do lT ved men could find plenty of work o on the he be outside to earn for themselves a living and lift Jilt their minds out of or the r p. c that hat the they are arc rc to be e hopelessly confined D ne for yeats or for life and that a a. their lives Jives ar are not yet half hd run run they can anh ba baTa a chance to redeem themselves in n a a. m should hould he be selected Great Britain had iI ad exactly the rj right ht system when beD it sent its ih very ry bad had criminals to Van Di Diemen's s land Ir Dr Pfoutz Plout i is wearing rearing his out iCe in trying to point a way ay upward m for those men flies and nd lie be fa says that if it he be can an belp heh ono Jno in ten or ten texi in a hundred d to so 10 rea readjust jU l themselves as at to be bc good citizens citizens citi citi- zens Zeus when hen they ticy come out oct that will be reward enough enough- h. h TJ Tic The o penal colony would have barn other a advantages anh It would keep hardened criminals criminal from rom a with young bo boys boy W who D committed their cri cli crime ic lC before their characters were cre at it t all formed and who without t. t hardened criminals for associates would wO the more rea readily ily turn their minds into honest honC t channels But the tho very best that fan an be done with WU the mon men in in prison can van only 3 avail iJ in jn a few ca cases e For instance there thero was 1 one man mat t term rm was about to expire ex ex- ex pire last fall faU lIe Ho d deserted from the working orkin gang outside and was gone three aria and a hulf bulf months month before he be wab wati finally found and arrested in Portland He Ie bad Ld be n in t e penitentiary a cr very long on tithe time but in months ani ania and n nA A half he be committed commUted robberies and hur- hur larca enough to gather thi to himself Jr lopoo as ue nearly a as can be bc c estimated an ho cached it aud and will not tell any luy one it is evidently c hi his bie thought ht being that some fome time he nill 1 get ft out I again Din and ho will have hac a stake t kc 7 The ie pr prison lou itself is it a marvel mar t to an outsider r in the wa ways that ht-e ht been beau adopted to insure safety against bren breaks those thoe in c charge ar c eay say that the they keep a little jUlo ahead of a few des desperate rato men men-in the pen The last Jast effort effort ef et ef- ef fort ot of Abe Aba to get Jt away n showed hO a persistency and a genius which di directed di- di iu in a righteous line would oud have ba made the man great fame As 8 it i is he lie hew w went nt nt in tie there c an U ignorant uncouth boy bon hut but tolay ho writes a letter the tho composition com cont position and d penman penmanship hip of which would at awaken n tho the cn envy of the tho principal pal al of or a female seminary tic lie is a marvelous marvelous' man utan He lie ha hu never tr broken a simple rule ruic iu in the penitentiary 1 but ever every plan lan be he mal makes for or escape involves In the killing of two or three men inca he taking ta Ia- kin king his ht regular with th the re rest t but counting on the doctrine of chances h lie may get ct na away J H lie o would 1 have o made mado n general if C he be had been bem trained trained- Th The Tho prison itself in is a marvel and the ordinary ordinal citizen n to r realize what it is h to tD old bold about about SOO men caged some omo of oJ them thew murderers some sonie of ot th them Jc desperate men in every WA way should t-hould J go anti and get ct permission to look through that thai in inti- inti ti tnt ion Tho work b being in done dooe on on oj tb the olt outside ide to to serve the on aud at the t amo t time m to s the state i is also wonder ful CuI lor l'or or instance G Governor Spry pr 6 Tr presented with a 3 great horse hore JB last t year lIe He at t once turned him over o overto overto to the state for mr the states state's use lie i ia is isa a more h beautiful horse than any UJ man mali iu in ut Utah h has for ten years Tb There re rc arc are not we e f twenty five 1 liner horse boy rl on this planet lie He is of oi tho the thoL L Lexington xin on anti loD Longfellow stock tock through a i Idi pedigree ec of equine kin kings 5 and queens and he be retains moro more the form arm of a pure Arabian horse thau almost any thoroughbred in the United States He lie is what Lew Wallace would have bave called wine red in what color what the ord ordinary man would call mahogany ha ba bay He lie is more than sixteen hands hi high h. h and aud weighs bs about thirteen hundred rl rounds Bounds and he be walks alk the earth with a look of disdain ain a as thou though h the earth was not ut good ool enough b for or him to walk alk on And still he is a k kindly cha chap chaJI good friends with tho those who tako care caro of him and I they say 81 of h him Jn that he ha has never r been known to do a 1 m all or thing hing iu hi 1 s life ie But Rut ho hc won von about a score of or hard races l J st l year Jear in California and he lie looks a as 35 though b be lie would rather die than lose JOC a race His face is as sweet as a pretty prett womans woman's and yet it ba has got gotas as much power as 38 had Daniel Websters Webster's of whom Ned Ked Marshall of California said aid I I have been seeing great men all ail j my life I have been afrait to meet i is s some me of tb them m but wb when n I have gotten up to them 1 have always alwa's foun t that at atthe they the were just men men always until Imet Imet I J met Daniel Webster n D D n D-n n him he looks oki wiser than he i 19 s sIt Jt It Itis is FO so with this horse borse If he knew a as much as as be ho looks Jook as though be he ought to know be would do to b be president of the faculty of the tile sity ity it fhe They show th the same ame interest interest-in in cattle The two breeds that they ar are turning most to now are Guernsey anc and Jerseys and thc they have ha some beautiful creatures and nd with their cat cattle tic in milland milland mill milk and cream and butter they est nate their sa in saving to the state about 2000 a year They have bave three or four hundred hun bun dred chickens kens all in the tho most approved cd kind of settin settings 5 They have bave got Jot a field full lull of geese eese and they have one golden pheasant down clown there that any lad lady would be proud to have in her er drawing room rai raise e the e vegetable pr th the tho men and they are as fine ag as 9 rOw w. w The of the he state date when they come to Salt SaIL Lake would woud do well weB to go JO OI out t and see sec e bo how a model farm is run at th the penitentiary There is moro more satisfaction ati faction in that than t there re is in seeing th those sc erate men rith th brains perverted serving erving out ont their days j in pun pun- nt for c crime ime The TIRe arima animals arc I honest and there is 15 more real humanity in that on one horse bonc than thero there j is isi i iu a 3 whole wolo corridor of those scamps that have reached that point where they cat the food that the they do not earn |