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Show 6UPPLIES FOR THE STARVING. ' Transport Sails From Seattle for 1 China. Loaded With Provisions for 1 Famine Sufferers. ' Seattle. Wash. The Culled States army transport Huford, lo;ided with 1 provisions for the famine sufferers In I north Ch'n.i, sailed Sunday for Chin- kiiing. flying pennants of the National ' Red Crs-. the Christian Herald of New York and tho Seattle Commercial club. The last available cargo space was lilted hue Saturday night when 400 bnus of rli' purchased with a contri- bu'.lon of $lit.ii telegraphed from i lteadlnu. Pa., were stowed away by longshoremen, who loaded the relief ship free of charge. The cargo of the 1 Ituford, valued at I.'iO.Ooii and contrlb- ( u'ed by organizations and citizens 1 from all parts of the I'nited States, will keep .'Ml.OOO starving Chinese 1 alive until the new corps are ready for hnrvest next June. I |