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Show EIGHI; CON VICTS MAKE XX ESCAPE KM FEDERAL PRISON NEAR TACOW A TACOMA, Wash., July 4. Eight desperate des-perate convicts escaped from the Federal Fed-eral penitentiary on McNeil's Island shortly before 1, o'clock this morning. The men left the island in two row-boats, row-boats, which puts the United-States Marshal at' a great disadvantage In a search-Jor theuC" Ectore starting away the convicts disabled jthe Govermnnfs launch by destroying the dynamo. The alarm was not given until 4 o'clock this morning. ,-; The officers were unable to take up the pursuit until 7:30 o'clock. Ths names of the escaped men are: . C. U. Castle, sentenced for two years on the charge of altering money orders, from Tacoma, James Leslie, larceny, one year, from Alaska. t W. D. McCarty, robbery,- ten years, from Alaska. J. H. Malorie, rape, six years, f ror.a Alaska. - Matt Moore- stabbing, five years, from Alaska, f Ed.8tickney three years,-counterfeiting, from Taooma. r ( K. T&keouchl, manslaughter, twenty years, from Alaska. George Wade, five years, larceny, from Alaska. . : . - The desperadoes occupied the third tor upper tier of cells, and tunnel! their way out through the brick walls and a heavy roof. It la presumed they had assistance in getting out of the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. The two rowboats taken belonged to the prison. All of the escaped men yere in stripes. , DEATH RATE VERY LOW Not-since ' November, 1899, has the death 'rate for any month in Salt Lake City been lower than during the month of June. The monthly report of the City Health department shows that only thirty-eight deaths occurred among the residents. The corresponding month of last year had a record of fifty-four deaths. " Non-resldeht deaths reported were nineteen. During the month 127 children were born, of which fixty-two were males and sixty-five female. The sanitary work for the month included in-cluded 78 complaints, "all of which were attended to; 3160 inspections were made; 36 nuisances were abated; 5S4 cesspool vaults and greasetraps were cleaned; 75 notices to remove manure and other filth- were sent out; 3T notices no-tices to connect with sewer were given-23 given-23 sewer connections put in. and 2 inspections in-spections were made. At the crematory 336 loads of garbage were cremated and 13 loads of swill burned. Three thousand thou-sand loads of ashes and garbage were dumped. Twenty dead horses were ere-mated, ere-mated, along with 8 cows, 107 dogs. 1 hog and 5 cats. . , , The food Inspector condemned C734 pounds of foodstuffs. "Inspections were made of 95 groceries, 31 hotels. 120. com. mission houses, 29 bakeries, 87 meat markets, 30 dairies, S3 restaurants, 3 slaughter-houses. 57 fish markets, 1 hog ranch and 6 breweries. Of 64 samples of milk inspected and tested, all were found to be of the required standard and above. , , The number of contagious diseases reported during the month was 43 as follows: Diphtheria. 7; scarlet fever. 6; ' measles. 3; typhoid. 1; smallpox. i-varioloid, i-varioloid, 3: chickenpox. 1; whooping cough. 1. This was exactly the same number reported In June. lDOt, but In June. 1903, there were reported 6 cases of contagious disease. - Secretary Maxwell Brothers 'reports the sanitary condition of the city at this time better than at the same period for many years. The Inspectors have ben doing good work. The death rate for the month shows a rate of a fraction more than one In 2000 population. |