Show THE GRAND JURY REPORT t t TODAY TODAY we present for the perusal t of our readers reader an exceedingly elaborate elaborate elaborate orate document Its It ex- ex extreme ex extreme f def keme length and straining training after de detail de- de details tails tail are evidences evidence of its political 9 purpose The paper fairly bristles with condemnatory judgment pro pro- pronounced pronounced nou need on the bases of ex parte parle hypotheses I It t is i also alo a ri si cant ant fact that this thil elongated political political political cal report is i understood to have been in the hands hand tf of f the chief Liberal I organ several everal days day before it was pre presented in court While one one- one aided sided denunciation is i hurled un- un un at political opponents opponent the grand jury gives give evidence of having been exceedingly kind to its friends The management of the penitentiary penitentiary is i made a conspicuous feature of the report report the the U S 8 Marshal Marhal be- be being being be being ing belabored over the backs back of the poor convicts convict That official is charged with extravagance border border- bordering bordering bordering ing on ou profligacy because became it costs coat 35 cents per head dally daily to sustain the prisoners In consequence of this fearful squandering of go government mOll money 85 y 85 85 cents cent a day unon ulm a prisoner the grand jury in awful economical ecstacy We Weare are of the opinion that many of the supplies furnished were ive ve in quant y and nt in price 1 Supplemental to this thi plea lea for pinch pinch- pinching pinching ing hag the report further says uy We Weare i- i iare are of the opinion that the fresh f meat ham nd bacon furnished during this thi time wasas waa to quantity I Ui 1 h Jh about 25 per cent in excess excel of what was necessary and as a to price was fas 25 per cent too high It is i also asserted that the price paid for flour per hundred pounds pound was wa ex- ex excessive excessive ex-ces ex ive A fair calculation of the views of the grand jury would bringa bring a reduction on the cost cot of k keeping a prisoner r of nearly fifty per cent ceLt orsay orsay or say lay 18 cents cent a day or six ix cents cent a ameal ameal ameal meal If ever the members member of the de- de defunct defunct de defunct grand jury should be so so- soun o- o un- un unfortunate unfortunate un-I un fortunate fortunate- we hope they never will willas willi as a to be landed in the penitentiary for a term there will be a ou tremendous tremendous ous revolution of opinion in their eases cases with regard to this thi financial n question They would no longer be advocates of the theory of skeleton skeleton- izing izing convicts convict The tendency of the times among among mong all civilized peoples people is isto isto ito to treat prisoners as a if they were human This Thi plea a for starving con con- convicts convicts convict vict shows how therefore that the grand jury are in that particular behind nd the age which does doe not favor the manufacture of striped shadows hadow The species of generosity exhibited in the document reminds remind r minds one of astory astory a story tory told by Col Ingersoll on the occasion of his hi lecture in this thi city some ome years year ago illustrative of the generosity of some ome m men n toward th their ir spouses A wife asked a ked her well well-to-do well to husband for a little s spending money when the response came in tones tone of manly thunder What did you do with that thirty five cents cent I gave you three weeks week ago Some of the computations computation of the are extraordinary to say ay the least as a witness this thi statement From his twelve cows cow the th marshal marchal supplies milk for the table of the deputy warden and guards guard at the ex- ex expense expense ex expense pense of the J government and sells from 70 70 to 80 worth of ot milk per month to the prisoners prisoner or such auch of them as 8 a have money to buy it at the uniform p price ce of twenty-five twenty cents cent per gallon This This Thi industry furnishes a revenue to the marshal of rot not le lethan less than per month and at the same time has ha solved a disputed q question concerning prison on di viz as asto asto ato to whether it Is i best beat to furnish healthy penitentiary convicts convict with articles article of food M other than ian the regular prison tare fare even though it brings bring profit to the officers in charge It IS r but justice to the marshal to state in this thi connection connection connection tion that when questioned in regard to this milk supply y he answered that many of the convicts convict were old men with spoor poor teeth and obliged to eat mush It rt remains remain for a political grand jury to solve olve such uch difficult numerical problems as a the one her here here pr presented It may for aught we know be true that the Marshal Marhal Ma hal sells sell from 70 to to- 80 worth of milk per month to prisoners able to purchase it but web we webe be beg K to by be excused from placing the Ur c- c cc c utmost confidence in the assertion a that he makes make make out of this thi from 70 to 80 a monthly revenue of The suggestion in reference to a certain class da of prisoners prisoner having had greater liberties than than others other oth rs is i not DOt only ungenerous but vindictive The grand jury are aware of the reason for such uch liberty having been been- extended if it has ha been accorded Some of the prisoners referred to have been utilized to perform labor I Ion Ion on the prison grounds ground because they J could be better trusted than the gen gen- generality generality generality of inmates inmate not one ene of them ever having attempted to escape Through their influence and exam exam- example example exam pi the management of the penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary has ha been rendered comparatively comparatively easy esry and simple as 88 a the effect upon the other inmates inmate has ha been salutary in every respect Thus Thu they have relieved the government to no DO small degree The balance of the compliments paid in the report to the Marshal have heretofore been before the pub pub- pubic pubic pubic ic ic and relate to the general manage manage- management management management ment of the business pertaining to his office I IThe The affairs of Salt Lake County are given n considerable attention The proceedings proceeding relative thereto are tailed an investigation but the way wayt t artial extracts have been made with a view to conveying an im- im impression impression im contrary to the plain show show- showing showing how ing ing of the full record and the trained strained and unjustifiable constructions constructions tion that are put upon oth other r parts are such as a to render the report ut- ut utterly ut utterly terly unreliable The first fint complaint is i made con con- c concerning concerning n- n road work which constitutes constitute tute a large part of the county s county business The allegation is i offered hat no bids bid were received for road roadwork roadwork roadwork work But it is i not stated elated that the labor was wa perform performed d by the agents agent of the county employed in such auch man man- manner manner manner ner that the profit which would have gone one to the contractor was wa saved aved by the county The report says ay that in a few instances instances in- in stances tance the county road supervisor or count county counts surveyor would approve ve bins bills presented but these thee instances are rare The county court had passed on most mot of the bill bills direct Rn an I 1 this mode of procedure did not Dot satisfy the Jury But a short distance e further along when bills biUs J were found which were approved by a selectman and then submitted to and approved by the county court fault is i found because be ause the court itself did not Dot take the super super- supervision vision which in other iDt instances nce is isa a W J M go a Both a method 7 J p were were pursued at different times bythe by yf the c curt court urt and ea each h is condemned when the other was being heing followed It Is admitted in the report that the several selectmen presented bills to the court for services rendered rendered for vl viewing wing roads and anti bridges and ami then it is ts said that the labor on the roads was paid for or without the writ ten approval of any county official A w who o claimed to have personal knowledge that the work charged F for or was was actually and properly done This is on a par with the rest of the report The members of the county court personally examined the work V i in an official capacity arid and then paid for it without securing from some one a written a approval And for this the court is charged with being grOt grossly ly culpable The The same same line of reasoning is adopted as asto to other jm instances The surplus canal is made an ob- ob obJect object obJect f of attack The record is quoted quote e from froID and the assertion made that thur 1 the court refused ed to make any ap- ap ap appropriation ap- Then it is said that when when Mr Fox m made some payments payment on his own authority l the court cour r approved them The Tal Tn record as ar quoted in the report shows that n no refusal as was claimed ever was wa made and the statement regarding regard bym nj Mr Mr Fox improve n to be untrue by bythe m t the subsequent language of the TC- TC report port relative to the final 6 nal action of ofa a the coun county y court ourt upon the s surplus canal the substance of which is that of of of the which the canal cost third one was paid by the county enc third one third by the city and third one one y by the inh inhabitants inhabitants along the line ine of o oA A the canal Hono and that e etch loh ch party re reI about equal benefit ther there there- there from Th The sut subject 0 of can ils s is also ma- ma ma may y ma- ma manipulated lilted in way a-way 1 way to deceive ve It Itis I is stated that teat the county funds Were diverted and misappropriated to the building of these canals nas upon the pretense that it was a benefit to the county Is there any sane man who is acquainted with the results result of Of taking Caking out the Jord Jordan n water who I will Vill not say that this is n no no pretense pretense but 4 but is a solid f fact ct from which h the o county onty nty has received many times She Che amount expended and anti the inhabitants been benefited to an en The BUt subject r of canals c is dismissed with a reference refer refer- reference ence to the hydraulic anal canal an and the sixth one Interest held by the county in the dam and aDd the Jordan Of this it is said We do trot not believe the COLI county nty ever had the slightest shadow of a title to any waters wat-ra of the Jordan River and gives as a aH r th it the Whole w volume a of l the river was vested in individual appropriators long prior to the build build- building building building ing of the called so-called county dam This is a misstatement and the fact mus must b be known to th the jurors who have resided here here any an length of time If the water was appropriated long before the dam was built how is it that the casual canal companies get water at that dam u under a deed from the county Or how could the water be appropriated until the dam had been made to store it and ami bring ng it to a level where it could be taken out and used Reference e is made to the fac that G George rge Crismon as collector owe owed the county which was charged to relief account But the report carefully conceals the fact that the great bulk of this was un- un uncollected un collected taxes which Mr Crismon was not in equity responsible responsible for or Nor does dots it refer to that which the graid jury as an arm of the district dis dis- district Court court must have been aware of that the settlement with Mr Crismon's bondsmen was made by suit in the Third District Court with the present chief justice on the bench We Ve find the th defalcation of D Bockholt holt late county clerk to be b That is all the report says on the matter Why is it silent on the point which is a matter matter of record in the Third District Court that was indicted died before his case could be brought t to trial The de detective service of e coun- coun county county t ty is made an an object ct of dis tills i The report actually says hat the th cou county county nty paid for one dete dote dote- vc v and e the sheriff at various times paid for additional nal detect detective ve work W if he be did Is 8 he confined to one when the thA public welfare in the suppression suppression suppression sion of crime requires more The county court paid has has paid fees for employing extra attorneys when it iway was considered that the circum circum- circumstances circumstances stanc stances es made de it necessary This is made the ground of another objection objection objection tion and the Vandercook habeas corpus case I is cited with the reo re- remark remark mark that the records nowhere sh show w that the cou co ty was a party t to the suit the be The records show that Deputy Marshal fV Vandercook nd was arrested an and as the case ase was brought under the law of the the th Territory I it the county's county s duty to carry it just as far as the county went This is shown by the record and the statute as ass the Jury ought to know The manner in which the jury r the he management f of gf city city affaire j 1 I is so manifestly unjust that the the intel intel- intelligent intelligent Intelligent reader can perceive the ani ani- animus animus r x mus and misrepresentation il at a glance If if he has taken pains to in- in inform in inform inform x form himself at all aU upon the the Jie tub tub- jest jett The efforts of the Mayor Mayo Mayo and and Council to procure an adequate water supply receive special s atten atten- attention attention attention tion h The arrangement entered d into into with farmers who had claims upon Parleys Parley Parley s Creek to exchange for irrigating water from the Jordan an and Salt Lake Canal and the pur pur- purchase purchase chase hase of two mill sites sitt's are referred to as egregious blunders the pro- pro proc c uri of a deed f an au additional sixth sixth one interest in the Jordan dam an and its storage capacity is placed i in n the same category The report says So for the canal the city once owned which conveyed sixth one-sixth of the water of the the- River Jordan and nd cash the city is the happy pos pos- possessor possessor possessor sessor of a dry di dia h h on East Bench and Bench and two mill properties which are hardly worth the powder necessary to blow them up with This is untrue and rt eWa ti tive ve in severa several particulars In Instead of the mill properties L being being value value- valueless valueless less Jess if we have been correctly in informed in- in informed formed the city has han been leen u offered d for them a- a arger a than that for which they were purchased pu on ac- ac account ac account count of the tl e increased value of the thelan theland theland lan land attachments It 11 is correct that the Parleys Parley's s Creek canal was during a large Jarge part of of last season sear practically practically cally a dry ditch ditth ditch was the case fr r the sane reason r That reason nearly all the streams ams ti lii lii-li lii h usually are ample for the the nevus of the p people r were practically dry throughout th Is entire entire mountain mOUD tai u region r-glon Including lud- lud luding ing not only Utah but hut Idaho It was beyond the power of the Mayor and Council to make a contract with the management of the the 3 atmospheric conditions to favor the country wl with h plenty of mois mois- moisture moisture moisture ture Noone No one b but t an au idiot would argue |