Show EXAMINING LIFE preservers seattle wash feb 22 acting under directions from federal commissioners smith murray and burwell officers I 1 in the united states revenue service have been engaged during the past week in n collecting lire preservers puget from sound vessels which are to bo be forwarded to washington tor a general test in regard to their buoyancy commissioner murray today said that the majority of the preservers secured probably ifould be tule as the buoyancy of tho the block cork life preservers had been demonstrated upon leaving seattle at the close of the valencia investigation commissioners murray and smith will return to their homes in washington by way of san francisco the commissioners with to examine several witnesses in the california metropolis including the marine in rectors pec tors t there ero who passed the valencia I 1 |