Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-08
beat him, indicates either an inexcu.able
lack of.poli,ical comprehension Or a desire
to alarm the Grsntites with . little weak
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RAilR0AD %lMTelIIeENce.
Movemenss OF Engineers In the Uppe,
Country-Miscellaneous Notes.

Movements OF Engineers In the Upper
Country-Miscellaneous Notes.
THE SPRINGFIELD BRANCH.
Springfield Times, 4tl.
Regular daily trains on the Milwaukee
road were comm. need Monday over the
Springfield bsanohs The ,lrain-arsiyes n
Springfield ct half past i've id the morning,
and leaves At half Past Eve iu the afternoon
Vhia arrangement 10 regard to time is much
o-.ter than that recently 10 effect, especial
" for the accommodation of people coming
here to the land Office, IA they will be here
turing Office hours and long enough to At
tend to any reasonable amount of business.
up COUNTRY WORK.
Sioux CITY Journal.
From Msj. Ed Hazen. who arrived from
Brule City Yesterday, comes lidings of the.
engineers of the Milwaukee road. They
have plated the east shore line for . road,
at American creek, but are, about March is,
TO commence running q line up the White
river west from Brule City. There has
lately been q rush for clallhs at American
creek on the superstition that the crossing
would be there, but young Lawler, son Of "
director Of the road, has occurred lands a,
both points. so that the subject of crossing
il still open.
When our informant left Springfield on.
Thursday. Engineer Kimball. with . tean,
and party Of surveyors, was trying to cro.s
the river in a fla, boat, to run a line up tn.
Niobrara, and reach the Black Hills by
that route. The party had made an a,temp'
o cross a few days previous, but failed, and
when the maj,r lett Springfield the fiat boa,
bearing the. party was: etill ID the river
caught in the floating ice and drifted . mil.
~belowfthe landing. This il the latest fron,
he Milwaukee surveying party for the Mo
brara line to the Black Hil!s.
NORTHERN PACIFIC LIBERAL ITY.
Bismarck, Dakota, Marck 4.-The latea,
mail received at this city was dated St. Pau,
with the mail is now at Alsop, eighty miles
aud business men ,elegrsphed Manager Sar-
gent, a.king if he could not, under the cir
c1ms,ancea, aud the great amount Of money
lost BY the delay, send the mail through b
wagon. Joseph Dietrich, of this city offered
o 60 after il. for $25. Sargent telegraph~d
hat the company y, uld stand half the ex
pence. The dispatch was a surprise to even
the warmest friends of the Northern Pacific,
~ It would be expected that the company
would stand $25 when, through it's mirman
agement, many have lost thousands of dol
lars. Little attention has been paid to the
Dakota division this winter The prospects
are bad for work on the extension, as little
material has as yet arrived.
DAKOTA BRANCH.
Fargo. Dakota, March "A company ha.
lheen Organized to build 8 branch from
Barnesville, On the St. Panliaud Manitobs
railroad. into Moorhead, Fargo, and thu
northwest. 1t is called the Minnesota and
Dakota Northern. The organizer of tn
company was an attorney Of the St. PAU
road. and it is given out that the money i,
ready to build the road to Fargo and occupy
The valley. northwest of US. The itcorpora
tors are s. G. Constock, H. G. Finkle, A
a. White, W. H. Davy, F. j. Bnrlham, p.
H. Lamb, James H. sharpe, John Kouo,z-,
H. F Miller, A. j. Parwood, John Erick.
son, and S. NJ. Roberts. Fargo and Moor
head receive the announcement with unal
Ieyed pleasure. II gives competition to s,
Paul and the lakes. The twenty miles to
Fargo will be built at once.