Daily British Columbian
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issued: 2017-03-07
issued: 1886-09-16
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note: m__ VOLUME 1 NEW WMTMIHBTER, B. 0., THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1686. NUMBER « iJotBltttigk^himbi-tn Tkur.ilay Evening, Sept. I«. 188*. Parties just arrived irom Alaska pronounce the eviction of Ohinese from Douglas island a most heartless and brutal outrage. Its details were savage and ruthless to the last degree. It is even intimated that the poor victims were loaded on the schooners with the expectation and hope, that: thejc would never reach their destination, alive,, and the charge does not seem' unreasonable when it is known that the boats were not properly provisioned for the I Voyage < and < that1 when they reached Wrangel their passengers, who for eight days had been 'kept on short rations,:were in a half-starved and famished condition. The story of j the passage; of eight .days is most pitiful. , There was not space for all to lie .down, aiid in addition to the pangs,.of hunger, thirst and exposure ' Were tlie sufferings of bruised bodies, and limbs swollen in instances to | double their natural size from standing painfully on • the crowded decks. A more- wretched body of men than the crowd landed, at Wrangel can not be imagined. No usage short of burning at the stake could have exceeded in cruelty that inflicted upon these people by men who bosst -thut' their, conduct was "attended by 'no act of violence." If our government does not proceed at once against these outlaws, for such they are, and avenge this gross and cruel proceeding iit will merit the contempt of the civilised world. —Oregonian. I It now begins to look as though Australia would come forward as a great silver producer. For the last ten years She has worked some silver lodes :in a small way, and from 1876 to 1884 her exports of that metal Have averaged fiom ttbout 430,000 to $100,000. Within the; last two years American reduction processes have been introduced, and in 1885 the export jumped up to $283,665. This was mostly the product of a single mine in the New England district of New So…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Robson Brothers (1882-1883) ; D. Robson & Co. (1883-1886) ; British Columbia Stationery and Printing Co. (1886-1887) ; British Columbian Printing Company (Limited) (1887-1888) ; Kennedy Brothers (1888-1890).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0346208
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster : British Columbia Stationery and Printing Co.
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text