Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-17
RAILROAD NEWS.

No Strikers But q Party Of Obstruction
perintendent sewalls Probable Position
In the Milwaukee Company's Service---
Failure Of the Authorization Confer.
ence---A Hint to Cattle Owners---Per-
sonal and Local Rail Notes.
President 81. Il. Porter, of the c., St. P. &
o., arrived here yesterday from Chicago and
will remain few days in St. Paul.
Mr. Teasdale, general passenger agent OF
the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha, and Mr..
Brown, assistant general passenger agent of
the Milwaukee s. st Paul, at st. Paul, will re-
turn from the Chicago convention to-day.
F. B. Clarke, general traffic manager of the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road, will return
to-day from attending a meeting of freight
officials which was held at Chicago Wednes
day to decide upon a new Chicago rate sheet.
Mr.. H. G. Davis, assistant general passen-
gor agent of the Chicago, st, Paul & Omaha
road, returned from the Chicago conference
OF general passenger agents yesterday. He
stats that no definite action was had on the
matter of paying commissions to ticket sell
ers, for which the conference was called.
The st. Paul & Manitoba land department
yesterday sold 1850 acres of Red river lands to
Willett Bronson, of New York. Mr.. Bronson
has bought under a contract requiring him to
put the whole purchase under cultivation
within few years. He proposes to divide
his purchase into tracts of 800 to $40 acres, for
selling to men Of moderate means on long
credit, and intends next season to break forty
acres on each subdivision aid erect dwelling
houses and other farm buildings on each.
A rumor is said to have been circulated
about st. Paul yesterday to the effect that the
position E. @. Sewall, Esq, present superin-
tendent of the st. Paul & Duluth road, is to
have in the service of the Milwaukee & St..
Paul company, is that of general superlntend-
ent. If there was such q rumor it was not
we'll founded. Mr.. Sewall is going into Office
work for the Milwaukee 81 st. Paul company
at Milwaukee in position to which no title
has yet been given, but which will be, it is
| understood, near to and representing the gen.
eral manager of the company. 1t is also I'M
derstOOd that the Milwaukee & st. Paul will
appoint an assistant general superintendent
| over it's lines east of the Mississippi, but will
| not, for the present. name general superin-
| tendent in place of Mr.. Van Horne.
Arailway employe whose chief occasionally
gives him substitute for a holiday by send
| ing him out to settle a claim for
stock killed, says that each one
| of the companies whose roads run
| across the state has to pay for 500 to 700 head
| of stock killed every year He adds that if
farmers along our local railways would avoid
| small lawyers, eager for fees, when they have
claims for stock killed, and themselves deal
direct with the companies, they would save
money to themselves as well as annoyance to
the companies. The Frequency of such claims
keeps the proper officers and clerks of the com
panies well posted as to the value of stock
and if stock owner loses any by the railroad
| if he will send IN such particulars as he knows
as to time and place of the accident, with de-
J scription of the animal and his fair valuation
he can himself obtain settlement and pay by
correspondence quite as soon as any lawyer
| could do it.