Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-02
RAIL AND RIVER.

cial--Sweden and Norway to be Captured
IA Long Name---New Station West o
Grand Forks---Big Stone Contract---Lo-
cal and Personal Rail and River Notes
The executive committee Of the st
Paul & Duluth company met yesterday
afternoon.
| All the general managers of railroads
in the city were invited to join Hazard:
Minnetonka excursion last evening.
The st. Paul s. Manitoba company has
contracted for 40, 900 perches of stone fol
the new shops it is to erect in this city.
The first station Ia new one) west OF
Ojata, on the Grand Forks western branch
of the St. Paul & Manitoba railway, has
been named Larimore.
The name of the postoffice at Hillsboro
station, on the Fargo & Grand Forks
branch of the St. Paul & Manitoba rail
way, has been changed from Comstock to
HillsbOrO
The St. Paul & Duluth company an
ncunces fair week round trip tickets to
Minneapolis at 60 per cent of full fare,
except on Tuesday, when tickets will be
sold at half rate.
Half dozen prominent business men
yesterday signifed their intention of &C
cepting the Northern Pacific proposal of
cheap, leisurely and comfortable excur-
sion to the Yellowstone
S. S. Merrill, general manager, w. c.
Van Horne, general superintendent, and
2. M. Myers, secretary of the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 st. Paul company, were in
St. Paul yesterday, and visited Saltwater.
The Sioux City & Pacific Railway com
pany's general manager announces the
appointment of X. G. Morehouse to be
general freight agent and j. B. Buchanan
to be general passenger agent of the road,
with offices at Missouri Valley.
Garrett W. Winnie, aged GA, one of the
Oldest conductors Oh the the Chicago,
Milwaukee s. st. Paul railroad, was
found dead in bed at the residence of his
brother in Milwaukee, Tuesday. His
death doubtless resulted from heart
disease G A ~
G. J. Gunderson, of Chicago, for ten
years connected with The police depart
ment of that city, hreturned yesterday
from Stephens in the Red River valley,
and arranged for the transportation of a
large stock of goods, with which he will
soon open a general merchandise store at
Stephens.
A general order of Superintendent
Hatch, announces the appoint ment of
Mr.. W. H. S. Wright to be purchasing
agent for the Chicago, st. Paul g. Omaha
company, with his office in St. Paul. Mr..
Wright has been acting purchasing agent
for some time and has been found worthy
and well qualified. m -
A young employe, of the Milwaukee &
st. Paul company applied for a pass yes
terday under the name of Martin J. Wa
urzyniakowski The official to whom
the application was made, to save station
cry and time, at once gave the youth a
new name, writing it down Martin j.
CoughIin--the selection being in honor
of well known conductor
The emigrant bureau of the st. Paul s.
Manitoba company is preparing grand
European campaign, designed to bring
all the inhabitants of Norway and Swed-
en- to the great Red River valley. 1t is
thought the king will follow his subjects,
when he learns their power IN choosing
officers of our government, and will be
candidate for one of the State offices IN
1888.
A special time card of the G. st. P. s.
0. company, issued yesterday, annouces
the hours of the special passenger train
to be lun between Eau Claire and Minne-
apolis next week, beginning Tuesday
morning, as follows: Leave Eau Claire
a. m, Menominle a. M; Baldwin 9:O3
a. M; Hudson 9 a. M; and Elmo at 9:29
a. m., arriving in Minneapolis at 1870 a.
m. Returning, leave Minneapolis at
6:30 p. m. and arrive at Elmo at 1877,
Hudson $40, Baldwin 9:09, Menominie
1914 and Eau Claire at 11:15 p. M
Canadian Pacific Land Grant Bonds.
MONTREAL, Aug.s 30.-The board Of
directors of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way company met to-day. The contract
ors' sale of $40, 100000 of the company's
per cent. land grant gold bonds was
duly executed, and the hoard authorized
the president and secretary TO execute a
mortgage as authorized at the sharehold-