Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-01
RAILROAD NEWS.

Passes and Special Rates for 1882-Opsn-
ing of New Section on the st. p. 3 NJ.
West Side Line - The N. p. Fergus
Branch Soon to be Opsned-Snow East
and Wsst-Personal and Local Rail Notes.
George Odds, general freight agent of
the c., M. s. St. Paul was in st. Paul
yesterday on finances.
Mr.. W. E. Jaycox, of the general ticket
office of the Chicago & Northwestern
company at Chicago, was visiting st. Paul
railroad men yesterday.
c., St. P. s. o. telegraphers reported
snow falling at Camp Douglas yesterday
morning and during the forenoon, heavy
snow north of Oakland, Nebraska, and
light snow south of that place.
"All special rates expire with the cal
endar year unless this Office is notified
five days before" Such Is the tenor of .
new legend appearing about these days
on the letter sheets of general freight
offices.
The passenger department Of the
Northern Pacific is about to Issue new
map, showing the late western extension
of the main lines and the years progress
in building branches in Minnesota and
Dakota.
| The Chicago, st. Paul 6 ON aha COM
pany's eight hundred feet Of new freight
houses proves to be hardly enough for
the cOmpany's st. Paul business and a
further extension is likely to be made
| next year.
Rate sheets and train schedules are be-
idg prepared for the early expected open
ing of the first section of the Northern
Pacific, Fergus Falls & Black Hills
branch, distance OF fifty miles, from
Wadena to Fergus Falls.
The general passenger agents of St..
Paul held meeting yesterday afternoon
to compare cigars and see what they
could find out from each other; and,
likewise, to discuss what Barnes and
Davis are to say at Chicago.
General Freight Agent Hannaford, Of
the Northern Pacific, was yesterday adj
vised of the arrival at Glendive of 1000
head of sheep from near Helena, Mon
tana. They are in charge of the owner
and to be shipped through to Chicago by
rail.
Parties desiring passes for next year
over the Northern Pacific on account of
advertising, or clergymen wanting half
fare permits, should apply to G. K.
Barnes, general passenger agent, st.
referred from the general managers Of
fee.
A M. & st. p short-line train in pass
ing Chestnut street at an early hour yes
terday morning broke switch rail and
the rear part of the train went off the
track, but was dragged some distance up
| the grade, till the caboose tipped over
and stopped the train. No other cars
were injured, and the caboose was right
ed and put in running order in short
time.
G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific, and b. G. Davis,
assistant general passenger agent of the
| last night over the same road and in the
Il
Chicago to watch the other and see that
he doesn't get ahead in advertising his
line to Fargo. They are to return home
Saturday next
The St. Paul & Manitoba land depart
ment sold five and a half sections, or
$3.50 acres, of Red River valley lands to
John Wilkey. of Cambridge, Ills, who
takes the land for early improvement ex-
pecting to earn all the rebates allowed by
the department for bringing his land un-
cultivation within three years. One Sec
ton is in Polk county and the other four
and half sections in Kittson county.
The St. Paul & Manitoba company to-
day opens the extension of the DEVILS
Lake branch of its West Side line to Lar
imore, seventeen miles out of data, or
| thirty one miles west of Grand Forks. Mr.
| Thomas B. Harris has been appointed the
company's agent at Larimore. This is
| the line or branch which the GLOBE re-
| portera year ago predicted would some
| day be built past DEVILS Lake, through
the Mouse river country and westward
on the north side of the Missouri valley
to Buford and Benton. The prediction is
still adhered to, although the builders
now propose to 60 northwestward from
| Larimore.
Some years ago there was f1rst-class
class railroad in Minnesota, know as the
St. Paul and Pacific First Division, ETC.
1t was first-class road of the day, with
mortgages, law suits, receiver, and all
the adjuncts. Its name and fame are
passing away, and its memory is only
occasionally recalled by the filing of pa
pers acknowledging satisfaction of one
of the old mortgages, or the discovery of
some of its old signs and cards among the
waste and rubbish of railroad Offices
Just now numerous reminders of its for
mer existence are being consigned to the
flames which make steam for heating the
Union depot-its old tickets, millions in
number, being daily fed into the boiler
house furnace by employees of the st. p.
6 NJ. company, detailed to put the old
things out of the way.
A Card to the Public.
desire to call attention to the style Of one
of the ticket sellers in the Minneapolis Office
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul road. asked
for ticket to St. Paul and handed the clerk