Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-14
RAIL AND RIVER NEWS.

Excursion to the Great Wheat
Fields I roposed--Return of the Willard
Party-.Personal and Local Notes From
Railroad and Levee Offices.
Hon. John A. Chandler, general agent
at St. Paul of the Milwaukee s. st. Paul
company, will arrive home from Arkansas
this morning.
T. G. Power, of Chicago, general man.
ager of the Benton line of upper Missou-
ri steamers, was at Northern Pacific head
quarters yesterday.
The Minneapolis s. St. Louis company
is running nightly excursion trains to
Minnetonka, connecting with its boat,
the City of st. Louis.
On and after Monday next the Sioux
City train of the c., st. P. & 0. company,
will arrive here at $50 instead of 7:30, as
heretofore, so as to connect with the out
going Northern Pacific and St. Paul s.
Manitoba trains.
Mr.. Lewis E. Chapman, photographer
in Superintendent Wakeman's office at
the st. P. & NJ headquarters, will retire
from railro BAD service this week to enter
a law school, at Ann ArbOr or Baltimore,
for two years course OF study.
The Willard Haupt party rode across
country yesterday, from Morris to Sank
Centre, on the proposed route OF the
Little Falls s. Dakota railroad, and will
this morning arrive in Minneapolis, from
whence they will return to st. Paul some
time during the day.
W. B. Cobb, travelling passenger agent
of the Denver s. Rio Grande railroad,
and Mr.. Harvey, travelling passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, and H
Firth, western passenger agent of the
C. B. Il O., all of Chicago, were in st.
Paul yesterday on business of their re-
spective roads.
Superintendent Hatch, of the c., St. ?.
s. O., returned from Hudson yesterday
afternoon. When he left the second en-
CINE had been brought nearly up from
the muddy bed into which it dropped
Sunday-the first having been got out
Tuesday. The two engines dropped
about twenty-five feet, to the bottom OF
the pond, and their outer light works
were demolished, but the master
mechanic estimates that they can be re-
haired at cost of not more than 81, SOC
each.
1t was incorrectly printed yesterday
that the tickets for the great harvest ex-
cursions will run for sixty days They
are limited to thirty days. These ex-
bau
Eastern people, 1t is suggested that the
two companies, the Northern Pacific and
the st. Paul & Manitoba, should organize
grand harvest-tlme excursion to the
Red River and Northern Dakota country,
to leave St. Paul about August 18th, CIV
ING the excursionists the choice of going
by one line and returning by the other
so that they can see a good deal of Min
nesOta.
The St. Paul s. Manitoba land depart
ment received yesterday samples of very
good grain and vegetables from the cen
ter of Kittson county. the northwest
county of Minnesota. The Kelsc
farm, near Hallock, contributed wheat
fifty inches high, with handsome heads
five inches long; sowed May 18th and
pulled July 9th. Also oats, four feet high
with full heads, twelve to thirteen inches
long; sown May 18th and pulled July
9th. From the same farm there are sam
pies of cabbages, beets, tomatoes, onions,
etc., quite as far advanced as are the like
in the vicinity of St. Paul. From the
farm of M. O. Moen, near Hallock, there
is fine specimen of ripening barley,
standing four feet high, which was sOwn
May 10Th and pulled July 10th. Collec-
lively these samples demonstrate both
the fertility of the soil and the rapid
growth of cultivated crops in that region
of the State.