Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-02-18


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coGEsy Is the leading railroad county In
the Territory. II bas, inclading road
ID course of construction, more differ.
eat roads, more companies owning or
interested IN roads, more mileage, and
It's roads have been bnilt at greater aR-
gTeGate expense than any other county
In the Territory. II has narrow and
standard gage fosds, and reads oper-
ated by locomotives, by horses and by
eRdiesa chains. The Colombia and
Puget Sound Company and the North
ern facinc are the chief road builders
aud owners. The FIRST named has
about foFty-hve miles Of road, and the
other twenty odd. including. ~ said be-
fore. road nov In course of oonstruc-
tion. Besides there IL q very costly, bot
unused, piece of road known as the
Puget Sound Shore Line from Seattle
TO point Of connection with the North
srn Paciee, q distance OF nearly thirty
miles, the ownership Uf which is too
complicated for IA, in this short para
graph. TO attsmpt to explain. Besides
these several miles of road are 20 be
found In and about the Newcastle coal
mines, sud, what no other town OF
county has, We have between two and
three miles of irst-slass street railroad.
By the end Of the year over q hundred
and ten miles of railroad will be found
within our county limits, length ap-
preached most closely in the county of
Yakima. Railroads are usually built
where there h something for them to do,
and the building of one leads to an
other IL will not b, Surprising il
within twelve month the construction
is begun Of the road 10 Belhnoham
bay and on 10 connection With the line
IT the Canadian Pacific. Increased
hope is found for this in the declared
change OF polies Of the Canadian Com.
panv, which, within a fortnight past,
has declared that 1t will no longer op
pose lines from the American side, but
On the contrary, will encourage their
building. Neither will ID be surprising
II other roads are begun in 1895 and
1856. making this city their terminal
point and reaching east 10 Spokane.
Lewiston, or beyond. A number of
huge railroad corporations operating In
iowa, Minnesota and Dakota have been
reaching and feeling this way for a
LONG time past, and IL will be quite sur
prisinR II one or more of them do not
this year come q hundred miles or 30
further west. whether they do or not,
though, our railroad interests are al
ready very considerable. and will rapid.
ly gain in magnitude In the future.
REVIVAL AT THE BAPTIST CHuRoH.--
The meetings held each evening at the
First Baptist Church are gaining in
numbers and intensity Of convictions,
The large house wss hlled On Sunday
evening and one hundred and forty
perfons stood for an hour at the subse
Qaens inquiry meeting though repeated
u given full permission TO leave at any
time without any fear Of disturbing the
meesAna. On Tuesday evening, notvith-
standing the rain. one hRndred and fifty
peraons assembled and over one hun
dred remained 81 the social meeting
Deep, quiet conviction followed the
prenahing from the text God % loved
the world that he gave his only Son
than whoseeyer helieveth viii not perish
but have everlasting life" Several
profeesed new found hope and others
were snxiously seeking light. The
wslia walia Baptfsts are to be oon
oraExlated In having q pastor whoss
earnest words and thrilling eloQnenos
have twice been signally blessed in re-
vival work with the earnest brother Of
the Seattle First Church. Meetings will
be held eeeh evening this weok, and on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'olook foe
the ladies' Of the Home Mission Society
and their friends. Childfen's meeting
Saturday at 5 .. N.
Muzpka THAT Court conysnes 81
Port Townsend on Monday next. ons
of the moss important matters 10 come
before the court b the trial Of Chas. o
Green, charged with numbering San
AlsxandeF, on Dscembez i7th. as sQuam.
ish hArbor. Jefferson connsy. After the
killing Green proceeded 10 Port GAMBLE
and gave himself up. At that time be
related substantially the following ssorvi
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