Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-28 | Page 6 | Boy of Twelve Goes on Exploring Tour

BOY OF TVELVE GOES ON EXPLORING TOUR Salt Lake, Fob. 28 Neil Robers, aged 12 years, left his father's home on Dubol avenue yostorday afternoon after-noon with tho avowed Intention of exploring the earth nnd finding a new continent or an Island that nobody no-body else had over been to. Tho boy confided to his friends that If Columbus Colum-bus could find a new world he I guessed he could 'do something along that line, too. ' 1 At a late hour last night his expedition expe-dition was stlll afoot and had not been- heard from, though the polico of this and sceral , other nearby ' towns have combined Jn a conspiracy to spoil his plans. It Is believed the youngster headed north over the Qrq-gon Qrq-gon Short Line and that he will bo found' nt Ogden or Evanston, Wyo. He wab, equipped only with such funds aH he could extract in tho Rhape of nickels .and dimes from his small savings bank.