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ene AGREE ON EWRATES RAILWAY COMMISSION"AND RAILWAY JOINT RATES: Att he of Investigation and Negotiation xreen reached | ratlway a Statement ns At eonfere statement in w shipments from Washington points; hay, oats, ba fey and mili feed fr Washington p OFFICIAL o B SETTLE LATTER WILL NOT GO INTO COURT BISHOP DAVID H. MOORE, Of Portland, Having Episcopal Jurisdiction on Tuesday Evening. MOTHER DEFENDS =. “My boy has been misrepresented ‘@nd wrong reports have been given fo the newspapers about his part in the accidental firing of a gun while @ut duck shooting on December 2.| ‘My son is not a bad boy, and | think Mt very unkind of people to try to Make him out vicious, where he has @nly, like ali boys, been and thoughtless.” Buch was the statement made by Mrs. H. Banke, 919 27th av., this Morning. Young Banke, who is 12 festead of 14 years old, is the boy who was taken into custody by Truant Officer Ketchum December 8 for trial before the juvenile court, | wader charge of extreme reckless- Rhees In having shot Leonard John son, another boy. Mother's Statement. Mrs. Banke ates that Johnson, although the younger the two boys, was really the chief ‘Wrongdoer, as he came to her he Om the day the accident happened | @nd coaxed William Banke to @uck hunting with him, insisting} even after he ha: been told by Mrs. | Banke to go home. The two boys Started out with some cartridges and an old gun, Mrs. Banke says slipping away without her know! | careless | young | WITH STAR READERS { “ edge. About a mile beyond the pumping station they met other boys, one ef whom loar gun to young Banke. Banke then gave his old gun to Leonard John- son. Leonard did not know how! gun, and « upon | young Banke to show him how.| ang Banke a me of the others} proceeded the process the gun was discharged. COPPERS TAKE EXAMINATIONS partmen force. the Pacific a thia, Fourteen big. sky day taking wr i aminations at the civ for positions The phys have been aminations these men. GOVERNMENT WANTS HORSES master’s departm The tenders wi attle, Portland, Omaha, St. Li and Chicago. The » shipped to the Ph lar J. H. Jones, a at erton, this mort 4 Tenders for bids for the of bankruptey iin punt to North west, Who Will Lecture at the Queen Anne Methodist Episcopal Church, and ser pa To the Editor I notice that Miss Ethel White sides wants to find a home for one ab was 6 ys whom she years old. of the little has had since b Now that he has grown too large for the part he has been playing, she hag awakened the faet that he Ought to have some educat! fit him for the battle of lif he Wants some one wh a not had the benefit of his labor to « & bome and an educatio y hasn’t some those children have ee ree ee | AS THE POLICY HO ON during men are to fee ex-} vice de-| on the police a) and medical ex to furnish the government }horses, to be used in the cava and artillery branches of the arm were issued by the local quarter nt this morning. be posted in 1 bar by = FINEST NORMAL OF WES 4 y ay Dar ano AM AN RAN TANTO we 0 LDERS WOULD WANTED ° ust Be SINGLE AND WITHOUT RELATIVES ° INQUIRE WITH IN. copia — SAVED HIM EN Th | offi nfan | the an arrived here t } fugits ays that the sul ® ta MARIECHAL WILL SAIL M. Hibbard stated this mort m that the FIRED AT THE TURK’S RULER | ATTEMPT TO KILL SICK MAN OF EUROPE, BUT SUIT OF MAIL of mai of Barnes & Hib-| learned that 76 TOURIST’S NARROW ESCAPE IN VOLCANIC CRATER top a dispute among the of fleers and that nilet was fired af wt was deflected by a sult He did not know what | steamship Mar hal, which wae nearly destroyed by fire last night, would sal) for Viadivostok Thure- tay He said As yet we have no positive proof as to the origin of the fire. The Mariechal will wail Thursday, On examining the cargo the eal thi morning we ase of oil were de In addition to thin the for Vladivostok ast i of the cabin through it In- itement and was nearly focated th the he e he found t , xplon with a kodak just | 1 ,been put aside for them to provide | against just » a time as thie? | It i» not tural order of things that th 1 would always} remain at F should not be until they «@ broken SAN DIEGO, Cal.—One of the! y provision for thelr future handsomest institutions of tts kind “ sovod Beye chanet HVOlis the we the recently finished t . a 1s 1like| state normal sehe which occu to w ‘ years for our! pies a point of vantage on Uni t J hes versity Heights, fr which ts i R, | given a magnificent sweep of veean, Samuel T.} intendent He ha bay and back cc Black, former state of schools, a faeulty tors, The the normal while t m § it haw graduated ntry. sup fa the president of 15-competent present rogistrs school pr training # nee the institution op 251 students instruc jing fluid last night HARD MecCURDY, PRESIDENT OF THE MUTUAL LIP INSURANCE COMPANY, AND A NUMBER OF HIS RELATIVES HAVE RESIONED.—News litem a couple of hundred] These will be repla } » of the Mariecha HENRY WOLLMAN. et estigation. He communication, at the in this etty Plans were filed today with Building Inspector Pince for a resi dence which W. J. Young p to erect on Ward between N and Warren, to cost $5,000 ‘poses First laborer at me Olson, 40, a Swede 1 too much of the intox and was pl Ant imbi in the cool place } * | See Page 6 for a good job, *** oP 6 for a job. ** | T IN SAN DIEGO! have taken good positions in the cities and villages throughout thin and adjoining states. As it stands, the school building represents an outlay of about $160,000. The final touches he Jost been put on the building and the campus is now being beautified with trees and shrubs. | | inetrom { HERE'S A CHANCE STARS will be fie publi the enings of ky | or on wNE ning yetween 8 and 7 lock, and an dostring # y heaven at clone range, t cloner range than tha the naked eye, will be welcom , eventin use the observatory tel |acope, The telescope in only six inches in diameter, but is a splendid nt and excellent for its wiz REPORT OF LAND OFFICE MEMBERS ARE NAMED nforme a me propriation: McKinlay, insular ‘ 4 ‘ od fa Ko and Q ar eur Y ¥ 7 jer =~ © na, weights and oor 90 the under we a " 0 Hays. vi ere and harbers Montana--Dixon, patents, mines jand pubis lands and Indian public lan¢ Or m—Hermann, Indian affairs election and president and mem- SNe a RE bers congress; Williamaon, irriga Utah—Industrial arts and expos Hons, mines and claims Wash ton harbers; Cushman, commerce and private Iand claims; Humphrey merchant marine and elections, od cation and expenditures of agri cultural department INSPECT APPARATUS | Jones, rivers and For the past three weeks the ox port engineers employed by the Na tional Board of Fire Insurance Un WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee, 12 The abolition of the of r ve public moneys in Uni | States land offices is advocated by the commissioner in his annual re port During the fiseal year 17,066 on were disponed of. The ts were $7,017,811, and the penditures, $1,988,389. Nearly 1,50 entries w thrown out because |they were known to be fraudulent | he people slaughtered. The man of tie | als e the publ 0 Of the vzir " t ave gone mad 1 with lene B ne ila emp ha a1 the fact that t “ till In power turned upon the the determination to win or Crisis at Hand, The pulse of the nation ha most stopped, and ihe next few days will either see the birth of a new Russa or the he ie deuth jot the old, The str and Jowinh questions are ppermost jand have caused the greater par jot the disturt No Universal Suffrage th racial st nnews tt | ent has decided not j universa fra » the peo will again take up the old f granting the right to ¥ to taxpayers, me and the « ented clas Before, howe th whin rat of the weak mt an become a law, it mu | High Official Resigns. General Dedulin. St | Petersburg, it | stgned becaune | the bruta | ter of the interior to | striker Bar de commander of tt guard, suc It ernment’s polley is public to the old me surely bring om the reign of terror which Russia has already had a tast An my of 400,000 Cossacks, it is un rstood, will soon be mobilized tc utterly crush the revolutionists. Cannon are now ed at every prominent street corner in this ctty and armed role march the street night and day. The strike sti ns to become ral al the empire, and the strikers are be oming stronger with every passing hour. Harbin Destroyed. Dispatches from Moji, Japan, state that the city of Harbin, Manchuria upon which the government has spent millions of dollars and years of time labor irely has been ¢ destroyed by mutinous soldi and Gerwet e been carefully in-| satiors, and that hundreds of {nn apecting ne apparatus of the] cont men, women and children were local fire partment. Yesterday | staaghtored like cattle they announced that so far thelr) goidiers fired uy - {napection had been satisfactory, the} — oe Ot Moldiors and apparatus standing TY possible | test. it will be three weeks longer vatare the experts complete thetr|| GOO Reasons for work. THIS BOY DOES NOT WANT MUCH SWIPED HIS Walter topping at the Northe ried to the po the Mugs ' n he was a very valuable watch n 4 and lock yesterday ft two overcoats, one black nd one brown, were reported to the} nice as having n stolen from basement of the owned | n & McFa 1 First ported to have en htl Twenty-third was turned in the lock with nfppers RESCUE BOAT SAFE RK! NEWPORT. Dec. 12.—Th gunboat sent © aid the foun dered lightahip was lost a long tim: but came in safe this afternoon was blown out to sea by @ storm. Seattle-Boston Copper Stock The sales of stock by the Seatt Boston Copper Company are t most remarkable within the his tary of thi and indicate plain ly that the people of Seattle desire to invest in mining property when they can be assured that it is hon promoted and the promoters ity estl have te * A. G. Moir, Room 75 Local Manager for Pf Insurance Assn. of attle, Wash Boyd Bldg Stoek kane Dear 7th f the cheque for stallion with ot my settlement favor our red ke my unt insured Please ac o the being your thanks Your tion th truly, J.C. gut Christopher ‘ompt very AND, oe Wash. | | between and $ o'clock yea. rday ¢ | secured a gold} « and an ame d pin. The key Giving a Bicycle Cycling rebuilds the body. NEW YORK. Dec, 12-—-pectal! poy F. Campbell, the boy helper|—| Cyeling recuperates the i. Commissioner Menry Wollman ber be vere who fell from the sixth floor of the Sy the muscles Cyclin been selected as the one before WhOM | eman building six weeks ago, |p quick the Intellect. It aids Rockefeller, Flagh Rogers and a], \cucet euit in the supert CLE Giger snd drives away the dozen other rich men will be brought | DTOUsNE nat the Prankiin Fire, {_ Wiues It te conduetve to that in th it which hae been institut. | 7°etersay againet jinkiin Five- |i best condition in mankind—a @6 ageinet the Standard Ol com-|? gyn ~ “sy: re, for) i sound nd in a sound body y by the state of Migsow it & i eoees o ee Saree 20-in. whee! Yale Juvenile Bicycle . $20 24-in. wheel Spinning Juvenile 26-in, wheel Little up. See window on Chris wifte, Spinning’s Cash Stora 1310 Secon! Avenue. Fancy Seeded Raisins, Fancy Cleaned Currants, 1-pound New crop Walnuts, 2 pounds New crop Almonds, pound 18¢. We have the finest the best Tea, we have it pound stoe Price | | TY. PRTERSBURG, Dee, 12 | Count Sergius Witte, called th nviour of Ruswia, bas declared the { revolutio, comes to Russia he| will resign hla post, rather Uhan wee 1-pound p Adams’ Java Blend Coffee, pound TEAS of Teas in Seattle. Adams Tea & Coffee Compan 1533-1535 Second Ave <M. WITTE MAY QUIT ine@e NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Tales of horrible massacres of Jews in Fou and to prom Ho- by refug from th jand n ff Jew refugees arrived c ut ' EB Inland and to! tales of the 5 1 minitted in native ar members r race it tated t em that ' the all over the ng them ‘0 plun Jew Re ted by the refuge CHICAGO, Dee, 1 Takabira, minister from Japan, the day n Chicago and lunched with the Japanese consul. He leaves tonight for Sun Franciseo to take steamer » Manchur ad exy 8 to reach me, January 3. ‘ Had the luckless teameter who got hi kile last Friday om Cherry street had him insured he would nde ent and would not require aid from any One. If his ho worth say $200.00, the Pacif Ave Stock Insurance A f Spokane would have in b for $150 for two years fort alt » of $15.00, againmt hould look Their office yd Building, s thelr lo- nset Main on COLMAN BUILDING, Discount For Wednesday buyers on Hair Brushes. This includes ali our new Ebony Christmas stock, as well as our regular line. Better buy Wednesday. THE WATER- ‘TAIN PEN. WE SELL row FORCED OUT All Clothing going at and be- low cost, LION CLOTHING HOUSE First Ave. S. and Main St. DONT’ GO AROUND With your glasses crooked. We will straighten and adjust them fer you free of charge. ckages packages 2 pounds If you want from 15¢ pound to $1.00 ver y Cor. Pine St. IS YOUR HOUSE The Peninsular Cast RADIATOR FURNACE '] GEO. H . WOODHOUSE 60,, | COMFORTABLE? An exclusive soft coal furnace, made to withstand the fierce. fires and extract every degree of heat without any Gives enor- mous volumes of pure warm air, Radiator surfaces are perpendicu- lar, making ft practically self- cleaning. No rods to burn off or rust out. Duplex grate lever re- moves every particle of consumed matter and gives a snapping, live fire that requires no poking. No waste. going down cellar. Regulator placed where destred. 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