Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-30
fw posT.IMTElllcEMcER PUB. co
seattje. June 10 1883.
soUruERN OREGON.
a.aapeaAs aud Hap0ess...The G6d1nGs
Trial. &c.

DnnnPoo1e ana top0ebsssssoo1 oo 1SosoSH
Trial. &c.
rseros Posi- -lNTELLroncBa:
RoeeburQ, two hundred miles south Of
ynslaud, for ton years hsttersd herself
that she would ever remain the terminus
- - Oregon and California Railroad.
Nsv tho cars run about eighty miles fur
- eouth, and It il believed through
trains 70 the Union Pacific will pass be-
'1ms January, 1856. To the ordinary
chasryer the track south from RoseburR
snnsau not 70 be built in the nost thor
essh manner; bot the common people
- not supposed TO know much about
eilposds and engineering schemes. The
efadIpQ of some of our streets arc paz-
sles 70 all except the surveyors, and in
some casss they would be b srd pushed
n rsouired to give 4 reason for some Of
their perfOrmanoes 30 in regard 10
ehis railroad. They have gone fifty
1ilea around a canyon, at an enormous
&xuonse, after engineers had reported q
pesstioable route through the canyon .
oiotance of fifteen sliles. The opinion
= expressed by some uncharitable per-
sons that when the railroad company
eells Ill the towns and lands given to It
by the generous and unsuspsCtinR farm
q along the route, the track will be
etraIehtsned and shortened ~ facilitate
through passengers and freight. But
% know capitalists never engage in any
euoh schemes. Of course not. The
lsessnt boom In real estate at Tacoma
has no such mercSnary object in view.
Oh, NO. Yet such hints are thrown Out
b. those Who think they can ESQ through
3 arindstoue when there u hole In 1t.
The present effect Of extending the
road south 10 not favorable 10 the re-
gion through which It passes. 1t has
stopped all teams, stages and emiRrant
wagons, and consequently the sale OF
farm products where produced. Possi-
bly, this may be only temporary disad
vantage TO the country. A noticeable
feature Of all the region three hundred
miles south Of Portland il the absencs
Ut aice, comfortable farm houses. In
Douglas county We saw only one respect.
able farm house. In Seattle there are
not & half dozen such rickety, tumble.
down old shantiss ~ they call homes In
noathsrn Oregon. Yet people will stick
% their burnt out, almost barren fields,
and imagine themselves happy.
On the way mp we missed tue News
Agent" name given to young man
Who seems TO have been born 70 torment
passengers by poking under their noses
all manner of merchandise. Our re-
spite was short, for ON the way back he
soappeared with stock of goods snfh.
cent 10 start a bazaar. We inquired
o1xiously % 70 tho state Of his health,
and abandoned the hope that he would
b taken sick before the end of the jour
~. We told him we could not believe
b Vas dead, for we had not heard the
airing Of cannon and ringing Ut bells,
~ seem flags displayed, indicating pub
" rejoicing. "Oh, no." he replied; Il
am god for this trip" and went out 70
roaDpeur with q sample Of harness
eAop, which he called shawl straps, for
mle. There WAS sOme talk among the
passengers Of lifting him With dynam-
~. bat the plan was abandoned ON NO.
eoant Of the abssnce Of the necessary
materials.
William Eddings was convicted OF
murder In the second degree at Rose
oerg. Oregon, aud sentenced 10 prison
Tor life. He sh0t and killed William
Themason At Canysnvilie, last summer.
u was . deliberate aud oold blO0ded
murder, bat perhaps the verdict w,ll re-
oult In greater good 70 the State than
90 involving the death penalty. for ths
poorest use you can put man to IL to
hang him. Better make him earn some
thing fer the State or county Ia which
~ crime vas committed, and repay In
eOne measure the expense Of his trial.