Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-13
RAIL NOTES.

ern Pacific Consolidating the st. Paul,
Mankato & Austin and Mankato g. Austd n
Roads-More Cabling By the Milwaukee
g. st. Paul-Another Northwestern and
Milwaukee & st. Paul Consolidation Re-
ported.
President H. II. Porter arrived from Chicago
yesterday and spent most of the afternoon in
his Office at the st. Paul & Duluth headquar-
ters.
General Manager H. E. Sargeant returned
from Chicago yesterday
Gen. Herman Haupt and wife arrived from
Washington yesterday and have rooms at the
Metropolitan. Gen. Haupt will spend most
of the remainder of this month with General
Manager Sargent and will take trip with
him oyer the Northern Pacific, preparatory to
succeeding Mr.. Sargent in the manage
ment of the road the first of next month.
Mr.. G. @. White, the lately appointed sup
ply agent of the Northern Pacific. has taken
rooms at the Metropolitan.
Hon. Timothy Case, of Green Bay, promi-
nently identified with the Green Bay, Winona
& st. Paul Railroad company, is at the Mer.
chants.
There is conductor on the H. s.. D. road
named Jones, whom the "boys' call Smith
for short, and whose bare poll was lately ac-
counted for by them on the theory that his
hair had been frozen off while he was block
AIDED for month or two at the western end of
the road. Smith didn't care much what the
boys said, but he did declare he wouldn't be
caught in the snow banks with his train
again. And now the boys have the laugh on
him, for he went out Monday and hasn't been
directly heard from since he passed Monte
video going west, though rumor that he
was again stuck in the drifts reached here last
evening.
Willard, Mankato; J. II. Baker, Mankato; Fl.
W. H. Officer, Austin; w. J. Ives, Hutchinson;
II. w. Page, Austin, w. H. Twiford, Geneva,
Henry Foster, Winnebago Agency, Mr. Kim
ball, Forest City, J. G. Riebee, Glencoe, and
w. P. Clough, St. Paul, officers, directors
and attorney, held meeting at the Merchants
last evening to complete their consolidation
of the St. Cloud, Mankato, & Austin and
Mankato & Austin companies, by formally
adopting the legal instruments prepared by
Mr.. Clough, attorney of the consolidated COM
pany. After this had been done an informal
lowed and Messrs. Gilman, Page and Baker
were appointed to to carry on pending ne
gotiatiations for any early arrangement for
buildings the road-from St. Cloud via
Hutchinson and Mankato to Austin
and for securing eastern and southern con-
nections. The gentlemen present expressed
the utmost confidence in soon placing their
company in position to build the road inde-
pendently If they should fail to secure the co.
meeting will be held in Mankato in the
evening of the second Tuesday In May.
Trains on the Dakota division of the North
ern Pacific were delayed Monday by ice formed
in tbs track at night, from the melting of
snow banks in the daytime, but were yester-
day reported moving through witobut serious
delay.
The situation of the St. Paul g. Omaha line
was not much improved yesterday. The
morning train from St. Paul having, beyond
Crystal Lake, gone through two to five feet of
snow to st. James, and leaving st. James at
Bis P. NJ, come out all right. But the Sioux
City and Nebraska divisions were only deeper
under the snow. From Madelia to Sioux
City it was blowing and drifting
bad all day yesterday,san the six snow crews
on the road had to remain idle, waiting for
fairer weather. Weather reports at P. NJ
were as follows:
st. James-Cold, clear and drifting. Their
twenty-five degrees.
Mountain Lake-Clear and drifting hard;
u degrees.
Windom-CIear and drifting; 80 degrees.
Heron Lake and Woodstock-Blowing hard;
drifting; 30 degrees.
Worthington and Sioux Falls--Clear; north.
west wind; drifting; 25degrees.
Sibley-Clear; strong north wind; drifting;
80 degrees.
Sheldon-Cear; drifting: % degrees.
East Orange-Clear and fine; light north
west wind; 26 degrees.
LIE Mars-Fine, clear weather; north wind;
2S degrees.
Sioux City-Clear and fine; light wind; 26
degrees.
inches of snow fell Monday and yesterday, but
yesterday afternoon clearing weather was re-
ported.