| Show LIFE IN THE IDAHO peny PEN y HOW THE BRETHREN CONFINED THERE ARE APIS EMPLOYED AND TREATED brother george C parkinson undergoing sentence in the idaho penitentiary on the charge of having assisted one of his brethren brethren to elude tile the pursuit of deputy mai chals who were seeking to entrap him tor for living with his wives has written a private letter to a friend in this city I 1 from blaich we are kindl kindly y permitted to make the following extracts it is dated U S penitentiary boise city idaho april 4 IW it is indeed gratifying to know that we are remembered by tile the faithful of the lords people in this trying nour I 1 have received many kind letters from friends on oil the outside both mor mons and nou non mormons cormons Mor mons which are arc a source of comfort and satisfaction we are all enjoying excellent health and are in no way depressed in spirit notwithstanding it niieves us to know that the ones whom wo we would bless aud and do good to are fast scaling their own doom by attempting to thwart the purposes of the almighty 1 I hold not the least malice or hatred coword those who bound me ine here we are all of the one grand family of adam and no member of that family has a soul but what is precious in the sight of the creator of all we are treated with kindness and equity by the warden mr J N pal ni iti tirton ertan and frow from what I 1 can learn our accommodations are no worse than those of our neighboring prisoners I 1 am now rooming with brother J M phelps of montpelier and we all get along well we have about two hours exercise in the larg large yard each day the rest of the time being spent in reading writing conversation and sometimes working a little at whatever we can find to do for basl pastime me there are six of us in the prison brother blackburn of rexburg Rex burg is working at the shoemakers bench brother phelps attends to the cow A leatham looks af after ter the hogs hog gs A biorn sweeps floor A peck has been cutting stone and I 1 go to town or ebore chore a little on oil the outside of the enclosure when asked we consider this all optional on our part and regard it as conducive to heal health th and good f feeling eeling our food is common two meals a day our beds are composed of a mattress and two pairs of blankets in rooms quite similar to the state rooms in the S S nevada the cell room is generally warm and comfortable for table all loud talking is stopped at and lights are put out at 9 when all retire to bed we are permitted to write twice bac each h mouth month and receive mall mail any time all cor correspondence n being ins inspected acted by the warden P S all tte the brethren here but myself go 90 out about the of this month |
