Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-01
RAIL AND RIVER.

iowstone-A Fat Special Train Fair
Week Between Grand Forks and St Paul
-OmciaI Announcement Of the Appoint
mont OFF. B. Power rs Land Commits
4, siOner Of the St. p. y NJ Other Local
and Personal Rail and River Notes.
Superintendent Ii. A. 'Towne, OF the North
ern Pacific, GENE down from Brainerd yester
day to attend to business at headquarters.
The next thing in the way OF railroad adver-
Using will be cheap ticket, for those who
wish to go to the annual exhibition or expo
sition at Chicago. $685.
Z G. j. Ives, general superintendent of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail-
road, after pleasant visit to Minnetonka Of
about week, returned home yesterday IN his
special car.
Vice President w. H.. Rhawn, of the, St.
Paul q Duluth Railroad company, accom-
panied by Judge Drake, of the court of claims
at Washington. and John w. Thomas, Esq !,
of Philadelphia, arrived here yesterday, and
will remain for few days. Messrs Drake
and Thomas are large Stockholders in the St.
P. d D. company. 1a viib.l
Circular No. 26, dated August 80, from the
general manager of the st. p, M. & NJ. rail-
way, reads as follows: "Mr. Charles E. Fur
ness is about to retire from the service Of the
company, and he will be succeeded IN his ap-
pOintm-nt as land commissioner b, Mr. j. b.
Power, Who will take charge OF the office on
the LIST Of September next"
To prevent mistakes on the part of travellers
between ST. Pau, and Minneapolis, over thu
l n ,fx~h <~,o n 10 rbf baSf
| ON account of the track being usei by differ,
ent companies, to repeat thai passes are gool
only on trains of The companies issuing them,
but tickets sold by the Manitoba or Omaha
compares are good on any trains running be:
tween the two cities over the Manitoba line.
| Mr.. R. Nelson, editor of Ihocrdig, o.
Chr. stiana, Norway, was in St. Paul yesterday
| Just returned from exploration OF the Rec
River valley. from Breckenridgeito St. Vincent
and prepared to. tell the readers of his papel
that the best and the most which has beer
said of the famous wheat valley of the new
Northwest, has not exaggerated its real mer
| its, or the inducements it offers to immigrants
The st. Paul & Manitoba company will, fin
stead of fair week special from Willmar Al
stated Yesterday from September t.
| Is inclusive, run fast special train between
Grand Forks and st. Paul. This train vii
leave Grand Forks at 8 p. M, Fargo at 8:4!
| %. m. and Barnesvllle at 1918 D. M, and run
ming ov the Breckenridge division, (now al
laid with steel rails and the road. bed il
irst-class condition,) will arrive in Min
neapolis at a. M and in St
Paul at 1855 a. m. Leaving st. Paul at TN
p. m. and Minneapolis at 8 p. m, this spec
ial will arrive in gainesville at $40 a. M, il
Fargo at 8 g. m. and in Grand Forks at 1:5s
D. m. Between Barnesville and st. Paul witt
Thirty stopping stations, the time 70 hours
20 minutes will be the fastest of any passen
ger train In the Northwest, but it can b
safely made for the road is the best in tn
country. Bat sc
General Passenger Agent Barnes, of tn
| Northern Pacific, has issued his proposal 70
the first excursion to the Yellowstone owe
the Northern Pacific. The train, carryin,
not more than ninety persons, is to leave ST
Paul Monday, Sept. IL, at p m arrive il
Fargo for breakfast at sos a, IN. tuesday,
dinner at Jamestown; arrive Bismarck at GIL
o. M; leave Bismarck Wednesday, $50 a. m.
dinner at Pleasant Valley; halt at Little Mis-
souri, to see the 'sBad Lands;" arrive at Glen
dive at 9 D. m; leave Glendve at 3 p. M, Thurs
day; arrive at Bismarck Friday at z q. m
leave Bismarck at 10 a. NJ; dine a
Jamestown; arrive in Fargo at p. m. From
Fargo the excursionlsts may have their choic
OF proceeding at once home, arriving in St
Paul at S:35 a. m. Saturday, or of remainin,
in Fargo over night and taking daylight rid
arriving at $50 p IN. Saturday. The fare, onl
$25 for the round trip, includes one doubl
berth in sleeping car for the whole trip. Th
! regular rate, with sleeping car charges, woul
be $3.50. MIR. Barnes will accompany tn
party and endeavor to make the trip satisfac
tory to all participating. ~
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