Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-12
RAIL AND RIVER.

tween st. Paul and Minneap0lis-A
Runaway Looomotive-The Bomb
Throwing Strikers ON the G. NJ. & st. p.
Personal and Miscellaneous.
Mr.. John Gentle, one of the original con,
ductors on the st. Paul d Duluth road, after
an absence OF eight years, is In st. Paul for
short visit, on his way to Winnipeg, where he
goes to accept a position on the Canadian Pa
citic road. - $500 ~. .. 800
Mr.. J. q. Cook, of Chicago, northern
freight agent of the st. Louis & San francisco
railway, called upon some of the st. Paul rail.
road men yesterday. Rae 1aa 70 10
Mr.. J.5iA. Quinlan, travelling passenger
agent of the Erie & Chicago road, was attend
ing to business In st. Paul yesterday.
Gen. w. D. Washburn, president OF the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, was in st.
Paul, on railroad business, yesterday. ~
President Porter, General Manager Winter
and General Superintendent Hatch, of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha company, returned,
yesterday morning, from inspecting the north
ern division of their road.
Judge Chandler, general agent at st. Paul
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul company, is still
confined to his house by rheumatism of o very
severe type. E q gacgme .sa-. oa
Major Geo. 81. Smith, general superiDtend-
emit of the St. Paul & Duluth road, returned
yesterday from a main line trip to Northern
Pacific Junction, and will to-day 90 over the
new branch road to Taylors Falls accompa-
MED by james Smith, Jr., the company's at
tOrney
General Manager Merrill and General Super
intendent Van Horne, of the Milwaukee q St.
Paul company, arrived from the East yesterday
and will remain in St. Paul this forenoon.
Mr.. E. Il. Crocker, the new general super
intendent Of the Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
road, will go to Chicago to day to be married.
That is to say, to bring back a general man
ager for the home he intends to have in Min
neapolis.
Mr.. A. W. Wilson is to leave here tonight
with three car loads of stock for his big farm
near Stapleton. Mr.. Wilson is an old settler
of Washington county, well known
in Cottage Grove and at Hast
ings He reports that some thirty
or forty families Of Washington and Dakota
counties are preparing to settle In the vicinity
Of Stapleton.
General Agent Eddy of the St. Louis & Du-
luth road, has concluded to return the city
agency for sale of tickets over the st. P. & D.
and connecting lake routes to Mr.. George 81.
Hazard in the Fire & Marine building. Mr..
81. will have the tickets on sale in few days.
General Manager Hill and Assistant General
Manager Marvel returned last hight from their
tour Of inspection over the st. Paul & Mantle.
ba roads.
General Manager Haupt, accompanied by
Superintendent Towne and other officers of the
Northern Pacific, went FRONT Bismarck to
Duluth yesterday. After a short visit at
Duluth Generall Haupt will 60 to Bismarck be-
| fore returning to st. Paul.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis company be-
gan last night its through freight'service over
| the st. Paul & Duluth railroad.
| A carload of thoroughbred bulls passed
through here yesterday, billed for cattle
ranch near Miles City, owned by j. M. Holt
and brother. Mr.. j.. NJ. Holt was in charge
of the animals.
| The steamer Benton will leave Bismarck Sat-
urday, on arrival of the eastern train for Fort
| Benton.
The contractors for grading the short line
| of the st. Paul 81 Manitoba company, between
st. Paul and Minneapolis, have large force
| of men and one steam shovel employed be-
tween Como avenue and College Place, and
will have another steam shovel in few days.
| The new double track roadway will be consid-
erably shorter than the old, and it's grades will
be much lighter.
| A builAing crew is still at work at the union
stock yards of the st. Paul & Manitoba and
| Milwaukee & st. Paul companies, near Min
neapolis, but the yards are so nearly complet-
Cd that cattle and other stock are already being
handled there.
Mr.. T. j. Cooper, OF Chicago, of the firm Of
| Cooper Bros, owners of $4,000 acres of per-
| feet wheat land, northerly of Sanborn, Dako-
| ia, was here yesterday and left last night for
Sanborn. The firm is having a large quantity
of land broken this spring and has now LIE
horses and mules at work on the place. Mr.
! Cooper was a resident of Red Wing up to
1852, and drlfted from there to Chicago by
way of Colorado. -ry
The Iowa & Dakato divisi.HAbf the M. &
| st. P. railway was last evening reported open
to Canton, with fair prospect of being re-
paired to the Missouri by Saturday night.
| An employe of the land department of the
| St. Paul and Manitoba railway, returned last
evening from having located twenty Michi.
| gan families in Polk and Marshall counties
near to Warren station.
/ The engineers of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha company yesterday began moving into
| building. The other officers will probably
allfsllow in the course of week or two.
The people of Austin offer to give the Mil.
waukee & st. Paul company eighty acres OF
| land and $25, 900 in cash for locating its /. &
NJ. shops at that place. Minneapolis is also
bidding for the shops.
The annual meeting of the st. Paul & Du-
luth directory will be on the 18th of June.
! The April tonnage of the Northern Pacific
| lod0S W ouu ASOtA Ioi 6Ot ChOVo VAoe ohSA y
was handled there during April over 8, 0O0, 00O
pounds of freight, on which the charges
amounted to over $25, 900.
The new secretary of the interior, Mr..
Kirkwood, has ruled that the Northern Pacific
company has a charter right to survey and
build it's road across the Crew reservation in
the Yellowstone valley.
If General Manager Merrill had an especial
| business in St. Paul yesterday, he
was not free to state what It
| was. The GLOBE representative, however,
can presume that one chief object of his visit
| is to meet the close impending necessity OF
providing handsome large building for the
Northwestern headquarters of his company in
| St. Paul.
Mr.. C. w. Hubbard, late chief clerk in the
st. Paul s. Sioux City land Office, left here yes
terday afternoon, accompanied by his wife and
| children, for Sioux Falls, where they are to
have their home in future, and where Mr..
Hubbard will have the management of affairs
of the Sioux Falls Water Power company and
of the Dakota Improvement company, as res
ident director and secretary and treasurer OF
each company.
II RMnasray Loco mOttce.