Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-12
Another Convict Escapes From
The State Prison and is
Still at Large.
NOVEL INVENTION BY BOYS.
r,,o Youngsters Install "a Wireless
system That Is Distinctly 1hcir
Own scheme.
special Correspondence.

gnecial COrreSp Onuence.
noise. Idaho. May 10.--Another
Nconvict has escaped from the state
- penitentiary George Holland from
rear Lake county who Is serving
to.year sentence for manslaughter
escaped Tuesday evening from his
rlard while engaged with other fellow
prisoners in loading lime at the Shaw
Lumber yards.
Taking advantage Of a moment when
the guards back was turned, Holland
walked around the end OF the car out
into the lumber yard in the direction
t the hydrant from which the men
obtained their drinking water; but In
stead of stopping to drink. he kept on
going and from all appearances has
not stopped yet. The guard. suppos-
Ing he had gone for drink, waited
few moments for his return. but find
Ing that he did net put in an appear
ence after due time, he turned in an
alarm, and men were put Immediately
upon his trail but up to this time
no trace Of him has been found. 1t
is thought he received immediate as
sistance from friends
or his l0-year sentence. he has al
ready served nearly four. With al
lowing for good behavior he would. In
all probability. have been released In
about two and half more years. But
now, II re-captured, his term will be
added to, perhaps, another 10 years
after his present term has expired.
Holland is only 20 years old.
Nothing yet has been heard from
James Cannum, the convict who es-
capped from the state prison on the Sth
OF April
YOUNG INVENTORS.
The great Marconi and his wireless
telegraphic system have been hooked
down out Of the skies. Part of the halo
has been taken from about his head.
His system" so astounding, has been
sssa4o the play tiIiiis VI e"o i''eo' VI"
Boise school boys.
These boys. James Hays and Lafay-
cite Cartee, have actually contrlved an
apparatus BY which they are trans
hitting and receiving wireless mes
sages for q distance Of three blocks,
and are now arranging a station at
Nampa, 20 miles away.
Neither of the boys has studied cleo
tricity but their natural inventive and
ihqulsitiye minds have brought them
10 the work and filed them with a
nope OF perfectlng. eventually, an APP
paratus by which messages could be
transmitted.
The Cartee boy has set I'm a 2s-foot
pole upon the roof OF the Kitchen and
the Hays boy has such a pole erected
on the top Of his work shop. Near the
top OF each OF these poles a cross bar
Is attached from which electric wires,
TOUR IN number. are suspended which
unite IN one before they reach the
ground and lead to the station. These
suspended wires act as receivers and
rahsfnltters OF electric waves as set
~ motion by the opposite station.
f0r months the boys have been at
Work upon their invention, and have. to
Ne sure, met with many decided fall.
uresi but for the last week they have
fectly. p'
Ihey use an ordinary Morse sounde,
~ sending messages and telephone re-
river rs utilized In receiving them.
'''F h'NOilDltlt lnlIK now seems
10 ne an apparatus by which one sta
uon can ring up the other. The boys
are al work upon this feature, how
yer ana are seeking 10 make a kind
OF door bell attachment that win give
tne ring when a message Is desired to
be conveyed.
OLD PATHFINDER.
The old pioneer and pathfinder" Ez-
"a Meeker, from the state of Wash.
Igtof, Is on his way back TO Omaha.
loloWing the old Oregon Trail" with
wagon ana ox-team, erecting at ap-
Woprlate intervals monuments 10 mark
we path OF the early pioneers to the
great west.
accompanied by appropriate cere-
monies, IN the presence of hundreds OF
people, he unveiled upon the capitol
Nounds yesterday afternoon a l2-foot
marble slab. which bore the inscription
,broi.oheer Monument. Erected May o.
E.e, by 2,717 School Children"
10 pay for the monument and assist
~ defraylng the expenses Of Mr..
Sneeker the Boise schools presented
"in with check calling for 500.