Damage*Estimated at $300,000
4 Vancouver, May. 12.
'Three hundred thousand dollars' amage was done and 200 Japanese were rendered homeless as a result of & fire which destroyed the eastern part of the town of Steveston, 12 miles to the south of Vancouver.
canning factories, a number of Tesidences, office buildings and several bouts were also destroyed. *Reuter's American Service, AMERICAN FREIGHT RATES, Washington, May 10.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission has annulled the section of the Merchant Marine Law relating to preferential railway rates for goods destined to be carried on American ships. The order will be sot aside until the Shipping Board certifies. that there is a suffciency of American vessels and the Commission acts on such certification,—Reuter's American Service.
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