Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-12
BAIL AND RIVER NEWS.

Permanent improvements of the st. Paul
& Omaha Roadway-Progress of the Des
Moines s. st. Paul Line-Red River Crops
-Minnet0nka Travel-Hazzard's Mission
Restoring the Road to Yankton-Lin-
coins Speculation-Missou and Missis-
sippi iBoats-Personals, Etc.
Two or three new town sites have been plat
ted on the H. g. D. new lines in Dakota.
Mr.. T. ]. McCarty, ticket agent of the
Northern Pacific at Fargo, is in the city.
Forty-nine more immigrants went out on
the line of the Breckenridge division, st. P. Sc
NJ, yesterday.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul folk hope to run
train into YanktoA, the first since the Mis-
souri, flood, on Wednesday next.
Superintendent Flournoy, of the Lumber
Line, will leave by the Sioux City train to-
morrow mornlng for business visit to Atchi-
son.
Assistant Traffic Manager Hiland, of the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha railway, will to-
morrow accompany Mr.. Munroe, the newly
appointed general agent of the company, to
his station at Omaha.
Train men of the st. Paul & Manitoba rail-
way report that along all of the company'x
lines in the Red river country all crops are
looking, splendidly, except in the limited
areas OF the low grounds, where the snow
water stood until the spring was we'll ad-
vanced.
Three working trains on the Sioux City
division and four on the st. Paul division are
strengthening the road bed and improving the
ballast of the st. Paul 81 Omaha railway,
while on the Sioux City division fifty miles of
iron rails are to be replaced with steel this
season, giving the company continuous steel
track from Elroy to Sioux City.
Officers OF the st. Pa ul & Manitoba railroad
and of the boats plying on the lake, report that
the travel to and from Minnetonka is double
what it was at this time last year. Quite a
number OF cottagers have already established
themselves at the lake for the season, but the
principal hotels will not be open to the public
until Wednesday next.
The sleeping car Cargo" mentioned yes
terday, was received by the Northern Pacific
company yesterday, fresh from the Toledo
shops. It is standard N. P car, of fourteen
sections, finished outside in Concord coach
yellow. and inside in black walnut with nickel
trimmings. Two more new sleepers will be
weeks.
Eatest advices here as to the progress being
made on the Des Moines division of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway are to the effect
that the grading is nearly complete between
north of AlgOna. The line is not likely to be
finished to connection with the Blue Earth
branch of the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha
until about the 1st of November.
The passenger departments of the Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore s. Ohio railroads have
united in request to Western passenger
agents to withdraw all tickets reading "via
Pittsburgh through Baltimore" or Washing
ton to Philadelphia or points East. The
request indicates that the two companies have
come to some agreement under which the
Baltimore q Ohio withdraws from competition
for the eastern travel by way of Pittsburgh.
The Sioux City Journal is responsib for
the following: ''If there is any man that
knows just what the st. Paul & Omaha rail-
way is, what it can do, and what business it
is likely to get, it is its old superintendent,
John F. Lincoln, and that gentleman is in a
quiet way buying up the stock of the road for
rise. He anticipates that the great lumber
and grain business on which the road has an
inside track, will make it valuable"
A Bismarck dispatch of yesterday to Gener-
al. Freight Agent Hannaford, at Northern Pa
cifc headquarters, says: "The steamer
Rosebud arrived from Standing Rock last
night. The steamer Benton sailed this morn
ing at daylight for Benton with $50 tons of
freight and full cabin. The steamer Red
Cloud pulled out last night with over $50
tons of freight and good passenger list. The
steamer G. L. Peck is still here, in trouble,
with her men on strike.n
II rT.-
neapolis and st. Louis Railway, and city agent
of the st. Paul and Duluth Road, leaves this
evening for Utica, N. Y, his old homestead.
During his visit George will take in Albany,
and if the deadlock is not then broken he viii
break it by issuing free passes to all the mem
bers for a free ride over his road, including q
trip to the famous Dales of the st. Croix.
There is nothing small about George when it
comes to negotiating with q legislature, espe-.
cially if the weather is warm and deadlock
exists.