Eureka Reporter | 1903-09-18 | Page 4 | Has a Dangerous Cargo

HAS A DANGEROUS CARGO treasure ship en ezolt to phill pines not a Plea pleasure ure craft the fifteen million coins colas made at the philadelphia mint for the philip pine islands are now several days on their way may they are aboard the steamship Ind raymo they are in strange and dangerous company and it Is not exaggerating one bit to say that every one aboard the ship will live i i vociferous amen when the long voyage is completed manila is 1 16 miles away and it will take the Ind raymo at leat fifty days 0 to o get got there besides the wins colas here bere Is what the ve sl has in her hold eight hundred cases of dyna mite and high class black powder each case containing fifty pounds seventeen cases of fuse tea ten barbely barrels of casolene ga solene ten barrels of I 1 brosene and a of calcium carbide will the slumbers of the crew be peaceful upon this it Is not likely the explosives she carries are enough to blow up the entire philip pine islands thero there will be po no as ng aboard lest a stray spark from 4 pe or cf cigarette arette should find lodgment n the hold and be a sort of touch on for dynamite oil and powder uncle sam will also breathe easier when the cable announces the safe arrival of the treasure and powder ship at its deti destination nation philadelphia evening tole telegram gram