Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-13
RIVER MATTERS.


Schedule on the Keokuk Northern Line
Probable Arrival of the First Boat from
st. Louis.
The freight boat Victory, of the Keokuk
Northern line, left St. Louis on Saturday,
the 9th inst, for Reads Landing, and will,
no doubt, continue her journey to this city,
arriving here about the 18th or 10th. The
Victory is stern wheeler, and will not prob
ably arrive here before the time indicated,
especially as It is understood she brings up
a heavy freight.
No positive information as to when
the passenger boats of the line
will go regularly into commission
for the season, has been received at the office
of theH company in this city, though it is
confidently expected that but little time will
be lost in inaugurating the seasons pro-
gramme.
The schedule of passenger rates, it ap-
pears, has already been arranged. In this
respect ''new departure has been inaugu-
rated which, it is believed, will obviate many
of the objections to which the old system
was amenable. Heretofore tickets were sold
at certain rates, which included meals and
berths. This, under the new plan, is done
away with, and simple passage tickets are
sold distinct from the others. For instance,
passage rates from St. Paul to st. Louis are
fixed at SO. Meal and berth tickets are sold
also at $9-the two making the
entire cost of frst-class trip, only $1,000
two dollars less than previous rates. Single
meals can also be had at fifty cents meal.
This is also new feature. The above re-
fers exclusively to first-class fare. Second
class fare is fixed at only 5000 for passage
to St. Louis. The distance between the two
points by river is within fraction of eight
hundred miles, and the aim has been to fix
passenger fares at about one cent per mile.
From St. Paul to Hastings, the shortest
distance that can be travelled by the boats,
fifty cents will be charged, and SO on, accord
ing to distance. It is also probable the
system of state-room and berth accommoda-
tons for single night, now in operation on
the Keozuk Fast Line, will be extended tc
this end of the route, as it is said to meet with
considerable favor from the travelling public
on the lower river, where it has
been in use for some time
These arrangements, it is believed, will meet
the demands of the public and secure an in
creased travel the entire season.
The river at this point still manifests an
upward tendency, having risen something
over six inches in the past twenty-foul
hours. This is good boatable stage, ani
~amply sufficient for the accommodation o.
the largest passenger craft plying to this
port.
Captain Jack Reaney, yesterday, started 8
crew from Hastings to La Crosse, for thu
Nellie Kent, which is to be taken to Still
water, and will arrive there tomorrow to g
into the st. Croix trade.
Gen. Lesh Has Foot Race and Bags His
Game.
The cleaning up of the court hous,
square by city prisoners was continued yes
terday, under the able supreme command o
Gen. Lesh All progressed smooth.
enough until about p. M, when one of tn
enforced laborers made break for Gilbert,
OF DEATH Henry Enneckel, under three
months sentence for stealing sugar from tn
St. Paul g. Pacific railroad, and whose tern
would expire about the Goth prox., was tn
man. He had been on the scavengerinl
squad all day on Monday, when he wore hi
overcoat. Yesterday, as an ingenious blind
he wore his shirt outside his coat. In tn,
course of his labor, the prisoner reached tn
Cedar street fence, over which he vaulted, AM
took to his heels through the mud ane
mire of the blocks between Fourth AM
Fifth streets. The commanding officer wa
equal to the occasion, and soon ran down hi
man into a barn off Robert street, ant
marched him back to prison, with color
flying to the tune of the '.Rogue's March.
Chem big boots beat the prisoner" says tn
general, "and he must feel streaky now