Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-02
COMMON CARRIERS,

The People and Goods They Are Carrying
Local and Personal Railway Items
The Weather-Ra Railroad Lands and LAM
soekers-An Exclusion to Omaha with
Secretary Ramsey = Fast Time t. New
Ore sns-Missou.i and Mississippi, River
Boss -MinnesotA's Lake Port.
The weather along the Northern Pacific line
yesterday was all that farmers could desire for
harvest aud fall work.
Mr.. J. B, Power, chief of the Northern Pa
ci6c land department., accompanied his agri-
cultural exhibition Car to Chicago.
General Manager Sargent, of the Northern
Pacific, has gone to Duluth to look at the pro-
gress of the big elevator.
Mr.. J. Fl. Drake, land commissioner for the
st. Paul q Sioux City company, started last
evening to join his family at Saratoga Springs,
intending to return home, with his family, the
latter pait Of next week.
4 Weather reports from the st. Paul and Man
itoba lines yesterday were all favorable, read
ing generally clear and pleasant" Barnes
vile reported farmers busy stacking and
threshing, and that the wheat looks good.
Warren says the farmers are getting along
we'll with stacking and their grain is in good
shape. Sank Centre says threshing is pro-
crossing finely. Cakes reports farmers stack
ing but no threshing done yet. Campbell and
Herman say that grain ia in good condition,
not damaged by the late rains.
The Great Western tonight gives the last of
the seasons series of lakeside concerts at
White Bear. The early evening train leaves
the Waoouta street depot at 5:25 p NJ
The st. Paul and Sioux City land depart
ment yesterday decided $500 more acres of
Dickinson county, Qowa) land to the London
banking firm which is buying 81. Paul & Sioux
City lands for English farmers intending to
emigrate.
a committee representing Lincolnshire
(Eng) farmers, is to go down the
Sioux City road tomorrow to make
an exhaustive inquiry as to the soil, eli.
mate and products of the southwestern ooun-
ties of Minnesota and northwestern counties of
Iowa. They are accompanied by shorthand
reporter, to take down what information they
obtain and intend to take home a full line of
samples of products to show to the farmers
they represent.
The mayor and several aldermen of st.
GATHERINGS, Canada, who have VISITED the Red
River valley of Minnesota and Manitoba, will
to-day or tomorrow, on behalf of about q
hundred Canadian families intending to emf
crate, go down the Sioux City road to look over
Her Maiesty's little dominion in southwest
Minnesota.
@Ae' Os bi6ytOus VI tu6 OF. fsN .. ". larQ
department., in his capacity as land agent, be-
ing guide, philosopher and friend to
SO many OF her majesty's subjects seeking new
homes In the southwest counties, is learning to
drop his his with ease and safety, and is said
to have lately ordered suit of high English
plaids and began to practice with an eye
glass.
Hon. Alex. Ramsey, secretary of war, accom-
panied by Hons. Jno. l.. Merriam, Hon. e. +.
Drake. A. II. Wilder, ESQ.,, and other promi
nent townsmen, will journey to-day in a spe-
DIAL car to Omaha, where MIR. Ramsey will
join President Hayes and party and accom- pany
them to the Pacific coast. his st. Paul friends
returning home after short visit in Omaha.
The Illinois Central has put on O fast New
Orleans train, which leaves Chicago at $50 p.
M. and arrives in the Crescent City the second
morning at IL o'clock. This is eight hours
quicker than has ever before been made be-
tween the two citiea.
The Milwaukee st. Paul road have now at
Mitchell, the present terminus of the Black
Ills line. eighty miles Of ties and thirty miles
OF iron. and more iron is coming. Grading ia
being done all along the line between Mitchell
and the Missouri river, and track-laying will
begin at Mitchell this week.
A certificate of Organization has been filed
with the Illinois secretary of state by the Chi
cago d Alton Railroad Library association. the
object being to establish library and reading
room for railroad men at Bloomington.