The Great University Runaway

The prank of two little boys who have become runaways from the Seattle university of which they are students is causing a rather lively breeze of excitement among its students and faculty. The boys are Roy Pierce, the son of Rev. D. J. Pierce, the principal of the school, and Randall Robertson, the son of a Mrs. Robertson who lives in the Hinkley block. Yesterday morning in chapel, Dr. Pierce, with rather more than usual severity, called the attention of the scholars to the fact that the keeper of the little store near the campus had complained that some of its students had broken his store windows with stones. The doctor warned the perpetrators that they were liable to arrest and that it was not time to break windows for fun. He dwelt on the fact that other mischief had been done around the school and he wished to give the ones who had done it a scare. It seems that the boys who had broken the windows were the ones who are now fugitives. They are only 8 years old and of course were much impressed by the severity. They remained throughout the day at school, however, but skipped out at dismissal in the afternoon. It is said that during the day they spelled out the word 'runaway' to some of the other boys on their slates. Their absence was noticed at dinner time. Dr. Pierce came at once to Seattle and last night informed the police, who are now on the lookout. The little fellows are known to be in Seattle. They were seen walking toward the city about half way up the Rain street avenue, from Columbia. They told those they left that they were 'off.' Dr. Pierce says that they could have gone yesterday afternoon, for neither of them, to the best of his knowledge, had the necessary funds. If they walked all the miles to the city, the doctor was right that they will be found by the police eventually. While the mother of the Robertson boy is worried, she is not alarmed; there is but little need for fear. The Pierce boy was dressed in a gray mixed suit with knee breeches; the other was in a dark wool suit with a tan felt hat.