Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-24
RAILROAD NEWS.

ganization of the Northern Pacific Land
Department-LocaI and Personal Notes
and Items.
So far as possible Office work for the rail.
road companies will he suspended for to-day
at noon.
Assistant President Winter, of the Chicago,
St. Paul g. Omaha company, is expected home
from Chicago this morning.
No lunch will be served at the Omaha com.
pany's headquarters to-day, all hands being
expected to feast at their homes on roast tur-
key.
| Weather reports from railroad lines received
here yesterday, al. reported the same sort of
weather which prevailed in St. Paul-windy
and cold.
]. D. Mullaney, q Cincinnati, travelling
passenger agent of the Cincinnati Southern
railway, is distributing some eleg ant railroad
matter about st. Paul and vicinity.
The st. Paul & Sioux City land department
hrs sent two sub-agents to spent the winter
| in Germany, Austria and Russia, especially to
organize colonies to be settled In Cottonwood
county.
General Passenger Agent Barnes, of the
Northern Pacific, returned from Fargo yester-
| day, leaving Busenbach and Hughes in search
of health and business and the winter Zephyrs
of Northern Dakota.
The platform sheds at the Union depot are
being builtrapidly, the permanent boiler house
| is nearly complete and the surfacing of the
| track grounds is about done, so that the es-
| tablishment will In few days be in good Or
der for winter.
The Taylors Falls branch of the st. Paul q
Duluth road remained closed yesterday, on &C.
count of the land slide which occurred Sunday
night near Taylors Falls, on that part of the
branch which was constructed by the M. q
st. L. company.
The shipping or bounding of a switch pin
when the Omaha company's Chicago train
was yesterday afternoon going from the
double track to its main track line in East st.
Paul, let two or three cars off the track, but
did no other damage than to delay the train
short time.
]. II. MacTavishs Esq, land commissioner
of the Canadian Pacific Railway company, ar
rived from Winnipeg yesterday morning, and
last evening proceeded to Washington. He
goes South on account of i'll health. During
his absence his department will be in charge
of his assistant, C. F. Kindred, Esq, of the
Northern Pacific land department.
A Milwaukee special of the 21st inst. says
it is rumored that the Chicago & Northwest
ern company has bought the Green Bay,
Winona & st. Paul railroad of John s. Blair
and associates, for large advance upon the
$500, 600 they paid for the road when it was
sold by United States marshal year ago.
The rumor lacks confirmation, especially as
Blair and associates, who are abundantly able
to own and increase the property, have enter
tanned plans of greatly improving It. Should
the rumor prove true, the St. Paul connection
will not be SO likely to be built, but the friend
ly cooperation of the present line with the
c., st. P. & o. road will doubtless be main
tanned.
TIE Northern Pacific Land Commissioner.
The appointment OF Hon. E. NJ. Marble, late
United States commissioner of patents, to be
land commissioner of the Northern Pacific
Railway company, has led Chicago paper
into making the incorrect statement that Col.
r. NJ. Newport, in charge of the company's
land department at st. Paul, had resigned.
The msstatement was probably founded upon
an erroneous belief that Col. Newport was the
land commissioner Of the company. In fact,
he is the general land agent of the company
for the eastern portion or divisions of its land
grant, and was appointed to that position
when he succeeded ]. B. Power, Esq, (who
was the last year he served the company en-
titled land commissioner with an understand
ing that land commissioner would subse
quently be appointed to have general charge,
while the immediate charge of the lands and
their sales would be divided between three
general agents-one for the east, one for the
west, and one for the middle of the land
grant. The latter has not yet been appointed,
bat probably will be when the
the company has earned and received its lands
in Montana. Meantime, Col. Newport, is
general agent for all the lands appertaining to
the completed road east of the Rocky Noun
tains, while the lands west of the mountains
Will continue, as heretofore, in charge of an
other general agent, resident in Washington
Territory. Practically the relative positions
of the land commissioner and Col. Newport
will be as that Of general superintendent and
division superintendent; and this was what
was intended and what he understood when he
was appointed to the land department.
1t is stated that Mr. Marble does not know
whether his Office will be located in st. Paul
or New York; but it may be presumed that he
will not be located in st. Paul until the com.
pany's headquarters building here is COM
pleted and ready for occupancy.