Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-26 | Page 4 | High Priced Meals for County Convicts

HIGH PRICED MEALS FOR COUNTY CONVICTS er Every prisoner on at the count county jail awill a ai will II hereafter bo be given on a n meal costing three cents more moro than has been bren the ease in the past In a generous frame of mind th the county count commissioners yesterday yester yester- day decided that Sheriff Shuit Sharp con could not feed his wards warl at the thE rate of tw twelve ho cents a n meal anil an additional three II cents was waa wai ordered The in increase comes cornea of a an n in investigation t ion of oC prices in vogue oJue in other Ja large cities At Butte each cach prisoner is fed at the rate of twenty twenty- I five cents a n meal meat In Jn California towns seventeen se and ono one ont half c cents nt is the rat rate In many counties of Utah Uth the price is higher hiher than in Salt Like Liko county