Show VISIT OF BRUCE PALMER Gallant Young Soldier Wlio Has Wont Won-t Commission Bruce Palmer of company H Sixth United States cavalry now stationed at Boise Ida came to this city with his sisterinlaw Mrs Palmer and S K Hooper yesterday morning to attend at-tend the funeral of his baby nephew who died in Portland on Sunday I r Bruce grew up here at Fort Douglas where his father and brother were stationed with tho Sixteenth wih SlxteenthlnCn tr Ho went to school In this city a num I her of years and was well known and I popular 1 He entered the competitive examination for Annapolis in 1895 just before the Sixteenth was ordered to Idaho and after passing a very bril Jiant examination was given second place But he was determined to get Into the service of Uncle Sam so when the Spanish war broke out he enlisted and enlsted went through the campaign serving for some time in Porto Rico He leI le-I turned with his troop to this country and for some months he has been stal toned at Boise Be took his oxamina 1 lion for n commission at Vancouver a short time ago and Passed successfully He wH remain > here 1 successCuly Hoopers uncll his un1 assignment comes when he will enter the army as a full I Hedged Second Lieutenant lS tu1 He is the second son of Maj Palmer retired to work his way to n com mission from the ranks his brother Lieu Guy Palmer of the Sixteenth way getting his shoulderstraps 11 the same I |