| Show tho the last of the old pen the last ol 01 the old adobe wall 1 upon pon 1 which is the romance rora anca and tragedy d y 0 of f BO 00 many lives hesed out of the gates rates of the penitentiary yesterday and with it perish the crudely carved initials of many of the most desperate characters that havo have figured in a the annals of the frontier the new walls by which the prison is belted have been completed the new towers for the guards and patrolmen are models of comfort and the institution is now a credit to the territory there are now within its confines confine 8 prisoners the latest arrival being hi ill kice rice who has been taking liberties with bis his neighbors horses up in the locality of kelton then a again a the courts have been practically idin idle e during the summer in months which fact cut off the resources oi of the cell while a lar large go number having served served sentence and received pardons have been discharged there are but two prisoners sent there under the provisions of the edmunds tucker act left within its walls and unless the approaching 9 term of the court should tarnish furnish a new batch this class of inmates will wil 1 remain only as a reminiscence daring the administration of deputy warden vandercook there has been but one successful delivery from its walla walls in this wilson and mcmanus effected their escape w while bile the third man was recaptured and is now paying his penalty the edmunds tucker law according ing to the register at the pen has about accomplished all for which h it was designed and is now rarely taken from the shelf it was approved in march 1882 and taking effect in march 1887 the deputy united states marshals began a campaign against those at whom the congressional howitzer was leveled the parallel of which will probably never be seen they were rounded up on charges of po polygamy ag yg unlawful cohabitation bigamy and adultery in troop and cargo the old walls wall s held scores of those who declined to abandon the teaching leaching that bad had been bred and born I 1 in n them that exciting era is practically a thing of the past however and there remain but two convicts in the walls of the prison to tell oft of the he eventful struggle between the law and those who defied it salt late lake times tim ea |
