The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1903 SENATE COMMITTEE FINDS PRATT AND ALEXANDER GUILTY; SCATHING REPORT ON MISMANAGEMENT OF FOLSOM PRISON - !mpeachment Proceedmgs Against Convicted Commissioners Recommended. IN MINDANAO BOLOED BEY NATIVES Prucks and E Chase Are Mu Moros Near kS wers w OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIYIC COAST Numerous Patents Arve Issued, Post- masters Appointed and Pen- Penitentiary Employve Tells Story of Cruelty. ct No. & quest that Deere water, that he and tried 1 Twice Pronounced Dead— Heart Trouble. Doctor Fin_ally Told Me to Take Dr. Mlles HemCure—h Cured Me. disease strengthens the "".1 at once s’ Heart Care. been 'f inesti- if 1 shouid atements affered from vai- number of years, several occasions. snd twice pronounced ‘gone’ In Septem- bez, i8g6, the date of my Jast seyere my pr,vxrx bope. The valves did mot close at all, there »as comstant regurgitation, and the Circula- tion was so siuggish that the slightest effort cawsed fainting, followed by muscular con- tractions, cach one seeming th throbs of deatp. 1 began taking Dr. Miles’ Heart Care under my doctor's care and when the #first bottie was gone | was ordered to buy a balf Gores more. The efiect of the seven bottles was something remarkable. 1 am now restored 1o a condition of good beaita and bid i cnjoy many years of life.”— Me A Stowe, Los A sts sell and the Dr. Mies' Remedies. for free book o8 Nervous and Heart Diseases. Dr. Miles Medical Co,, %ikiart, Ind, ér uarantee first bot- | CHICAGO, K _Bo h W, i=jo. $8 &, fan e (wm Bfl"l.rzln F. Waido, Ben Lomond, $10: idiery’ Home, Los Ange. ches, Soldiers” Home. 8. Catherine Stah va M. Atwell, omo, $6; Agnes A Shupp, | Original—Theotore A. Shafer, 4 B Draké. The Dalies, 35 i Original—Emile Nessler, Van- Increase, reissue, ete—John Brink, " Bome. Orting, $10; Patrick smm-n. oma. $12; Charles A. Green, AN Famous Mine to Be Opened. | GRASS VALLEY, Feb. 18—The fam- ous Idaho-Maryland mine, which has i sed down since 1%, will be re- opened by 2 Boston company. This great | piece of property has been mined since 151 and has made more miliionaires than any cther mine in California. John and Edward Coleman. the San Francisco mil- | lionatres, made thelr momey out of (bel mine. ol Feb. 18 —Charies Bartholemel, a was robbed of $7378 yesterday by < him to believe that be adoption of & daughter 4 which would eveniu- ally net bim §0,000. i * from the I*p‘nte departments of the prison, Rio Deil, fl!"' are no report tuch as the engifeer's depariment, genmeral overseer's, commissary or capiain of the guard. 1 was brought before the board last summer and asked two or three questions and when I was about 1o open up on the subject of 1 was interropted and prevented from estifying on that subject. The cloth- opers Dennis Keating ere cold, claiming that he sufficient clothing. He was taken lockjaw and died. He used dope snd the coid bad a severe effect on him. The Board of Prison bas Dot met | bere for more than three montbs. The commissary department, 04 1n fact ali | ndent of the other. | Lown wi ‘ the Gepartments, are indepe EVILS AT SAN evnm The ciothes of the prisoners are not up to the nmple neither are the offs In the en- | sineers dcjartment and many other things are not up to The meat, in quality, is_good, There is Do Way of accurately measuring criminals for identification io this prison, They 40 not use the Bertillian system. Chairman Olmsted of spoke briefly, urging that the reforms rec- ommended by the majority of the com- mittee should be made at once; that a committce be appointed to inves- tigate should be made. Murphy followed with the best speech be has made this session. Among other nin and Dot enough to Keep the pris- | figvt a \'v{_y- the committee | and report just what cmm‘ in the female de- yuen enitentia Assemh‘! Mked Byrw providing for n- -ppoi 1z s to fully tn- 2fTairs commending needed leg- 1f necessary, ascertaining be made in the per- oyed ®to2 PRISONERS ARE TORTURED. isl 3‘19’ and what ehanges & sonnel of those 2dopted by a vote Senate Committes Severely Condemns | i | Folsom Prison ent. there, was| e fldop_ian of his | mg guards, ‘lbd taky 2dopt- | th prisons for | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MEXNTO, Feb —The Senate Committee Refcrmatories submitted ng. It recommends | committes be appointed to er into the management and be empowered 1o send for persons and books that may be necessary to carry r,A the investigation. The report severs- cizes Warden Wilkinson for the e report was ordered printed in the be taken up under a order to-morrow morning. The < n Quentin on Sun- inspected the institu- 501'1 l“mu‘h every thin ramwz:n, "rt lmn tion was ciean, the prisoners being supplied clothing and bedding, reful investigation he State. into the opium and morphh:e evils, the grea bane of penmal institutions, convinced us l!" very little, if any, of either of these drugs nto this prison. The commities 2 Fencral way that the strait. nere juries 1o the unforturates placed therein, but having nothing definite or specific upon which 0 base an investigation no action was taken | upon this matter. |, The committes visited Folsom on the 1lth inst and carefully inspected the entire prison. From a mechanical and_ sasitary stapdpoint everything was found to be in first-class con- dition, the priscn ciean t, the sieeping quarters very coid. occasioned - B3 | the Water Gsed upon the coment Soors, whi does Dot dry at this time of the year Senator George Wiiliams, a member of the committee, In\'in' in his po-!-fll consid- | erabie data rding the the strait- | Sacket st this tetitution, which, % true, w—ss | Teveal a horrible condition of -mm | commitiee decided to investigate the same, lM | for that purpoge went into euaun session 2t 8 p. m. and remained in such session con- ! r -'g" i % prisoners are maimed for life and unable 1o follow the pursuit of even mangal labor, much less skilleq iabor. In order that some idea may be had lql Ahk instrument of torture it is thus de- hods in vogue at Folsom prison. | | that | Applied to the Prisoners. at hands bel with a chain suspended fr above bis head Many compisints were made “about the g € je cooked, and | food and the mammer i which at once. ty thieving exists among the cooks and wal ers, who hoid Gut mest &nd other articles 4 sell it t0°the priscmers, when it K Thie is kno For some reason which this committes wi not sitempt 10 explain. there exists a barmony Bawet The Wardcs sad s into bis confidence; interests of the inpstitution and largely responsi ble for the great quantity of opium in use by the conviets, which can be kad at all times it one has the momey to pay for it Ve also Snd that the blankets in Tse are old and worn, and many of the prisoners are com- pelied to g0 1o bed with their clothes on in or- | der 1o have'sufficient warmth for their bodies. | This is aiso known to the Warden_ but the ua- fortunates are permitted to suffer just the same We eiso find that the prison record-book of punishments, ia which every punishment should be entered. ‘does mot contain a true record o punishments by any means, many in iricing-up, srattiacket. and cos prisener be: — seven months in a dungeon &nd released but & few days prior 1o “our vieit to the prison, b baving been recorded at 2ll. The general over- seer, whose duty it is to make these emtries, was asked why he had not done o, and he re. SHeR- —Recemas flay wecy Seswr sepecien S ‘arden, who ignored me complete- Under these conditions the discipline fs necanvi)v bad, and should not be permitted to eontinue-in this manner, which. in our opinion, Slintes’ gEntnit Che. he-! mansgement and in: The :bolubed by lhe bnra of direcwn more than a year age. After lbc‘ymx:vmuned the cruel and use to wl it was : put they at :nfleeer‘ or indifference ng upon an unable ‘-0 h himself. o ‘We recommend that a special m appointed to further examine into b -vamm-m-u m“u’umwfll!' Annmuuyn. Yo =t CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 2.—In" a joint resolution Straitjacket Torture Is [ ] Forestry Bill Is to B: Amended 1o Mest the Objections of Opponents. Legislature Will Make Effcrt to Havs Them Remain in m: State. i . SILENCEY The instinct of modesty natural ‘o every woman is often a great hmdn-m to the cure of womanly diseases. es at Washington in ordering the tramsfer | Bfltelcy 234 thus retam the { to the State of Calir ENGINEERS' BILL IS KILLED. Assembly Deuies It Second Reading | and Strikes Out Clause. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, | Feb 18 —The Assembly promptly and effect- fvefy defeated an attempt to create a mew State commission this aftermcon by not onmly refusing passage to & bill, but demying It a second reading and striking out its enacting glauge. The Dill Was that of Senator Fremch entitied “An late the practice of steam er‘r.neer\n: et It came for second reading and Soward | el -t stfike out the eoacting cause Tt styled &8 an attempt at pernicious jegisia- tion and showed that if passed T consirmcnsy | confidential favored it and he Deughe 1 an Sxcelient | Measure. Boisson of San Francisco stated that | R. V. Pierce LY. the labor uniens of that city did not want the bill and that uumm—n-[ the measure, defending it ably, but senti. it ez'fz‘.‘."‘“mnm, W%'lmn“ uuuw-mwnmw‘m, . s i i ———— 'rmrmo:mnun 38 committee on | the Investigation of the misappropriation of | the Jessup trust fund at the Home for Fe-. Ble-minded st Glen Eilen heid a sesston to. aight with Drew in the chair, and examined