Show SIOUX FALLS 4 description of the building in which some latter day baines are confined A correspondent at peoa geoa summit county sends the following under date dale of 0 february the brethren referred to uy by brother green are all well at present brother austin GG agreen reen of bingham county idaho wao was sentenced to a term ot of alisee years tears and a halt half in the sioux falls dakota peril peni for living with his bis two wives wrote the following description of 01 that place and surroundings to his hio family and they sent me toe letter with a request that I 1 copy it and send to you for publication the sioux river is about the size of the weber sioux falls fails I 1 has about inhabitants it has railroad advantages van res but no timber in these parts parts the united cited states and territorial penitentiary join in one building situated on en a hil hill I 1 about one mile from town there are now nine united states and ninety one territorial prisoners con cn tined nned here bere there are different kinds of work carried on OB we have two meals a day consisting of good food well cooked such as bread beef and potatoes and occasionally we have beans squash hominy etc it if we wished to and had the money we cluid send out and get canned trait and other things in ia reason we wear our oar own clothes hove have not been shaved or had our hair cut we have good rules such as no pro faulty loud taking or singing no wearing of hats and no spitting on en the floor we get up in the morning make up our bed and wash and comb and a sweep out our oar cells my name here to is green nothing inore nor less the penitentiary is a very nice large and substantial building it is some feet long and about feet wide and is built of rock and brick cut rock on OB the outside 0 and brick on anthe the inside the outside walls are about three feet thick there are no under ground round rooms or cells our bunk goue house is abouo about 60 feet long by 22 feet wide wid idith with seven cells in a row and tour four rows rowa one above the ot otheron herou each side of the bon bouse 56 cells in gaall ai each facing out with good landings and railings failings rai lings the up and down downstairs stairs are all on the eod the cells are about eight feet long seven feet high and aad five feet wide open iron they have a woven wire mattrass one chair and stand our cell house stands on the inside of a large room feet the large room roem his has four windows on each fide and two on one end the windows are commencing 7 feet from the floor khz the cell house and aad outside walls wails run ran up about 85 feet and are then cove covered redin in together there is a daod cofod walk all around the cell house inside the larger room and the whole place is neatem by steam boere is plenty ol of good water in easy reach hot or cold we e have a bath and washroom ana everything is kept nice and clean alt that we have to ta do is to keep ourselves it aad ad house clean and tidy the broth breth ren are let out together one hour each day to have a chat and a walk around the large room which wt all enoy enjoy |