Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-16
RAIL AND RIVER.

ish Colonists-The Big Centennial for 1t.
Louis To-Night-The Gem City Las
Night-Personal' and Local Rail and
River Notes.
Mr.. James Howard, of Chicago, cash
Ter of the c., r. l. s. p company is
spending part of his summer holiday in
st. Paul.
On and after Monday next the Sioux
City train on the St. Paul & Omaha road
will arrive here at $50 p M, instead of
7:30p. IN. t's''s = '7.''' @ ''.s
w. B. Sanborn, general agent at St.
Louis of the c., B. & O. road, was one OF
the passengers of the Gem City, which
probably arrived last night.
The crescent fans issued by the passen-
ger department of the st. p, M. s. M.
company were in great demand yester-
day, and were to be seen in use MI along
the business streets. REa st
Surveyors are at work for the st. Paul
s. Manitoba company, endeavoring to
locate good route for railway from St.
Cloud to the ST. Paul e. Dulth road at
Rush City or Pine City.
Mr.. II. C. Spooner, of the auditors
department of the c., St. P. s. O. COM
pany went west yesterday to settle some
right of-way disputes acquired from the
Sioux City u St. Paul company.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the st. Paul s. Duluth company will
probably be had to-day for the purpose of
considering the matter of building the
branch road from Rush City to Grants
burg, Wis.
Talking of feeders said one of the
party at the Metropolitan last evening,
pointing to well known citizen, there is
as big one as can be included in any
railroad system. 1t would take railroad
to feed him. i'>t tA
The riverside st. Louis train, of the
c., M. s. St. p, and c., B. & @. com=
panies seem to have supplied a public
want all along the line, as it is already
doing big way business, as well as TAX
ing good share of through travel. d 3
The St. Paul s. Omaha train arriving
at noon yesterday brought fifty.one
through passengers, with about twenty
more applications for sleeping car berths
than could be accommodated, who waited
at Kansas City and Council Bluffs for to-
days train.
At St. James Thursday night Frank
Stiles, a freight brakeman on the Sioux
City division of the st. Paul g. Omaha
road, had his right hand crushed in MAX
ing coupling, so that ampntation was
probably necessary. He went to Sioux
City for treatment.
A special train will run from White
Bear to St. Paul tonight, to accommo-
date attendants at the concert to be given
by Danzs band IN Lelp's lakeside pavil-
ion, which will leave the station at IL
O'Clock Trains leave here for the lake
at 4:l0, 6 and 7:45 p. m.
A Summer supplement- of the Golden
Northeast, the organ of the Northern Pa
cific land department, is in press and
will be issued, for free distribution, in a
few DAYS. 1t will be about the size of
Frank Leslie's, be handsomely illustra-
ted and contain an interesting variety of
reading.
An excursion party of about thirty
persons, business men of Kansas City and
their families, arrived yesterday noon by
the Omaha train, On the through sleeper
of the ST. P. & o. route. They came to
visit Minnetouka, and left for Wayzata
by special car attached to the st. P. &
M. train at 4:45 p. m;
At the st. Paul s. Sioux City land office
yesterday deed was being prepared
which conveys to the Iowa Land COM
pany, limited, about Al, 900 acres of
land, all in Osceola county, Iowa, and in
Guiding part of the town site of Sibiey
and the remainder of the section on which
the town is located This sale brings up
the sales of the department since January
to over 100, 900 acres.
Reports as to the condition of crops
from telegraph stations on the ST. P aul
s. Manitoba lines were varied yesterday
by two exceptions. Ashby reported some
damage by hall Thursday night, and from
Dalton, the next station, it was reported
that t. heavy rain of the night previous
had knocked down heavy grain, but it
would straighton up again. Other reports
were uniformly favorable as heretofore.
One hundred and forty immigrants,
Scandinaviens and Germans, left here
yesterday for Litchfield, Ada, Warren,
Hallock and other points ON the ST. Paul
s. Manitoba road. The Germans mostly
went to Warren.
The Chippewa Commandery of Knights
Templar (of Chippewa Falls, Wis. } has
arranged for an excursion trip to Ash
land via the Wisconsin & Minnesota and
Wisconsin Central lines. The arrange
ment is for party of 200 people, to leave
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, the Goth
and to attend reception party and dance
in Ashland the evening of the 2lst. Ac-
cording to the Herald of Chippewa Falls,
the fare for the round trip will be only
IS, and the tickets will be good for re-
turn at any time. Therall distance from
Eau Claire to Ashland is 1917 miles. The
Commandery will go in uniform and be
accompanied by the Eau Claire cornet
band.
DR.. Warsabo, the Michigan agent of
the emigration bureau of the ST. Paul s.
ManltoDa company, returned yesterday
from the North, accompanied by the Po-
landers mentioned few days ago. They
are Nicolas Michalski, John Niemczew-
ski, Joseph Zispeck and Thomas Crook.
The latter has adopted an English trans
lation of his Polish name. Mr.. Michalski
some years ago founded Polish colony
at Radon, H., On the Illinois Central
road, and is now impelled to found a new
one by that part of the country being all
taken up. He has bought section of
land near Stephen, and their Red River
colony is to be located in that vicinity.
They brought with them a va
riety of samples Of cultivated and
wild plants gathered near Stephen,
including specimens of weed which
they say is only to be found where there
is deep alluvial soil, and will be recog-
nized by their countrymen as proof of
the fertility of the soil about Stephen.