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Show MIX-UP BETWEEN PRISONERS. Fist Fight in Penitentiary Kitchen Only a "Monotony-Breaker." Salt Lake, May 1. A negro prisoner and a white prisoner had a fight in the kitchen at the penitentiary yesterday. No damage was done to either the combatants or tho adjacent furniture. Deputy Warden Ure said last night in explaining the report that there was a "terrible Insurrection," that the incident inci-dent was merely one of the things which are of weekly occurrence, and which aro really a relief to the monotony mo-notony of prison life. Those who have been ln prison will undoubtedly appreciate appre-ciate the subtlety of this near-joke. "The fact of the matter," said Mr. Ure last night, "Is that two of the men who were at work In -Jhe warden's quarters became engaged ln an altercation. alter-cation. Neither was a bad man, as bad men go In the penitentiary. There were no weapons. It was only a fist fight, and lasted only a minute. The men were separated by another prisoner." pris-oner." "We have a report, or, at least, a rumor, to the effect that a guard used a gun and beat one of the belligerents down to the. ground. Is there, anything any-thing to that?" "There is nothing whatever to It. The mix-up lasted only a trifle of time, and there was no harm done any-w any-w here." , |