Show interesting LETTER SOME FACTS ABOUT THE OLD CARTHAGE JAIL the present occupants are annoyed by constant throngs of curious visitors want to buy relics the following letter from carthage to ani of this city possesses a unique interest to a majority of utahna the writer is J II 11 browning who owns the old carthage jail property lie saya win esq ogden utah my cousin james A browning liaa requested me to advise you if the blood stains arc still on the floor of the room where joseph and lliran were killed in reply will eay he stains allowed very plain when I 1 bought the property and moved therein in alio fall of 1870 there is still a light on the floor but repeated scrubbing from year to year have made it a light color aad have almost effaced it the samo old oak floor is in the room the bullet liole of the first shot which killed lliran and was shot through alie walnut door is still there as the door has never been removed in the year 1839 40 when the jail was first built no pin lumber was shipped to this country and all floors made out of sawed lumber were oak the inside base blaids stairs and doors arc walnut in the building and the door and window frames are oak different sightseers or visitors have asked me to sell them the door but I 1 do not want to use it for mercenary purposes and would not bell it the house id unpleasant for old people for a dwelling on account of the throng of visitors while our children were with m we did not mind it but my wife and myself are both aged and feeble and cannot stand the annoyance very well now I 1 itse pencil because I 1 am too nervous to use ft pen with dispatch very respectfully J M BROWNING |