Show TO WORK STATE ROAD P it fifty state prisoners with road f equipment to start in washington 0 county about end of month ja warden arthur pratt ot of the state prison leaves the lat last of the week for washington ashington ll county to arrange for supplies for the convict camp that is to be established in that part of the state for the ensuing seven months in about 10 days 60 con victa with eight guards and a dozen teams with road building equipment will be sent south for work on the county roads the warden ays that he be used a barbed wire stockade for the prisoners to sleep in while in davis county he will use only a rope in washington dead line 1 11 l county is as a the state road engineer ha ha given agn ell the convicts corn conNic acts ts a good send oil off 11 in reporting that ho he never saw better load work done anywhere while there in were ere several escapes up north the he parties were all caught and brought back and it is now over a year since a anner oner got getaway thair from the he prison in the shape oi of trusty sweeny beeny who itis it is learned managed to got down into old mexico where of course he bout i out ot of reach prisoners working the road aro are credited redi ted with n ith 10 days davs per month on heir their time in addition to the regular copperi copper for good behavior warden pratt says his prisoners siro iro so well behaved that it is four years since the dark cell was used in fact is no more dark cell and it is two years since it ii as necess iry try to put a man in the stone cells he building of the new now cell house aas put a permanent damper on all lopos and expectations of escape rom within the walls deseret news oct 16 |