Daily Colonist (1905-01-17) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1905-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Will double your milk supply. Why ?

ISocaiise It Is all grain and Is thoroughly mixed and ground, so as to give the greatest supply of milk possible. Try a. sack.

SYLVESTER FEED CO., 87=89 YATES STREET

TEL. 413.

BEST. YET

TO Each

ELECTRIC COMPANY,

First Schooner Of Sealing Fleet

Casco Sails to Hunt Purbearlng Seals In North Pacific Ocean.

Penthesllea Chartered by R. P. Rithet 8t Company to Carry Naval Stores.

GOVERNMENT STREET

Japanese Agents

Supplies For the Fighting ,V1en Being Bought on Pacific Coast.

Reported That Large Shipment of Old Rifles Will Be Sent.

.Muc h enquiry has boon made of lute at Pacific coast ports regarding steamers available for charter for the carriage of supplies, boUi foodstuffs and war munitions, to the Orient for the two belligerent nntions lighting in Manchuria, l&ussian agents had chartered several, notably the Tnconw, which is en route •to Shanghai and Vlndivostock wit.li beef for the soldiers of the Czar. Now t;he Japanese agents are busy. The Olym-pia, which wont from Portland a few days ago with a cargo of oats consigned to Bbbo & Co., of Shanghai, is said to iImivc been chartered-by Japanese agents. The lyanagawa Mum, now loading cargo at Seattle, will take a number of diorses and submarines, which are being shipped in sections, and enquiries are being made in regard to the charter of the Victoria. Garonne and other steamers now, lying idle.

Arrangements are being made with .1 view to shipping large quantities of foodstuffis to be used in stocking the depleted fortress of Port Ajrbhur, winch •the Japanese will use as a naval base, after stocking it in readiness for defence Should the need of defending it aris •Shipments of horses are also expected to 'be made, the Japanese being anxious to import larger beasts than the small, though wiry, Japanese and Chinese ani-anals now in use. It is also expected that some arms will be taken from the United States.

Of course arms could not bo snipped legally, but sewing machines and such goivds, well cased, could be sent abroad. Such shipment*; were found two years ago to contain rifles when search was made at Canton of wares shipped up •Hie We-sl river, presumably for fcko Rwang-i rebels. Many of those rilles, bought with subscriptions collected in Chinese societies'of Canada and 1 ho United States, were shipped from New York, and il is now stated that a large shipment of old rifles, mostly discarded SpringifieldH—a (shipment of some -100,-1 (KM) iven irons—is to be made by a New York firm <>t' dealers in arms. Those weupon< will, it is said, be used to .arm tibe Hunghutsses and the nomad tribesmen of Sag-hulien and the northern part of iManchuria ami Northwest Siberia, amongst whom Japanese agents have •been busy for some lime

lu liliis connection ii may be noted that Oapt. (». ('. Cullen, tho inventor of I ho ordnaic;*.' which benrs his name, has boon buying supplies, oats, barley, coul, etc., since his arrival in this city, ■and lire loll for Seattle last night witli the intention of looking over steamers offered for charter, Whether the goods he Iwis hong-lil uro for Japan or not Cap:.

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