One Hundred Eighty Eight

ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT.

That Many Drunks Have Been In Jail.

This morning the, county board of prison examiners, consisting of Probate Judge Newkirk, County Juvenile Agent Lehman and Superintendents of the Poor, E. P. Mason, James Taylor and Tracy L. Towner inspected the county jail. They found that on an average, as Mr. Mason said, it cost about $8 to lock up a prisoner. Since their last visit Aug. 22, 1898, 320 prisoners have been confined in the jail. They were charged with the following crimes:

Vagrancy 81, drunkeness 188. burglary 6, larceny 21, suspended sentence 6, carrying concealed weapons 6, assault 3, manslaughter 1, murder 1, indecent language 1, non support 1, grand larceny 1, assault with intent to kill 1, suspicion of larceny 14, assault and battery 6, malicious destruction of property 7, threats 1, attempt to rape 1, breaking and entering a shop 1, common prostitute 2, robbery 1, contempt of court 1, insane 2, suspicion of burglary 2, attempt to murder 1, false pretenses 1, threatening life 1, drunkard and tippler 3, suspicion of a hold up 1, writing threatening letters 1, disorderly 5, truancy 1, fraudulently disposing of a bicycle 1.