Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-24
RAIL AND RIVER.

CircIes-A Special Train to the M. E. Con-
fsrence--T The People Still Coming.
G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent OF the
Northern Pacific, returned yesterday noon
from Chicago.
s. M. Osgood, northern passenger agent OF
the A., T. & 8. F. railway, is in st. Paul, talk
ing business to railroad men.
Three coaches filled with Canadians, bound
for Manitoba, were sent from here special
ever the st. P. & NJ. road Thursday night.
]. H. Highland, assistant traffic man
ager of the Chicago, st. Paul q Omaha
railway, left Omaha for home yesterday ana
will be In his Office this afternoon.
The Thursday evening train OF the st. L.
& NJ. company, for Fargo and St. Vincent'
was made up of two sleepers, six passenger
| coaches, two baggage cars and one mall car
| all full
j.. B. Power, land commissioner of the st.
Paul & Manitoba company, is looking over
| the company's lands in the Red River valley
and will be back in his office Monday next.
Sixteen carloads of cattle belonging to
Rosenbaum Bros, shipped at Keith station, on
the Missouri division of the Northern Pacific,
will arrive at the Union stock yards this
morning.
Northern Pacific agents report heavy
movement of wheat from all along the line OF
that road Most OF the wheat goes to Duluth,
but considerable amount is brought to the
mills at Minneapolis.
Mr.. A. E. johnson, emigration commits
sioner of the st. P. g. M. company, Mr.. Lea,
general agent for Norway of the Cunard
steamship line, will return from the Red
River country to-day.
Alfred Myers, the great cattle raiser OF Mon
tana, returned yesterday from selling his last
shipment at Chicago, and will go to Keith,
west of the Missouri, to-day, to load two
trains more for the Chicago market.
A cable dispatch from F. B. Clarke, traffic
manager of the st. Paul & Omaha railway,
announced the safe arrival of himself and fam
ily at Southampton Thursday morning, after
a short and pleasant run across the ocean
from New York.
Railway men Of Chicago say that the migra-
ton westward toltiLues enormous. Manitoba
and Minnesota draw largely from the great
current, but the tide runs strongest into
Dakota and northern Nebraska and to the
Pacific states and territories.
John Ross, the best known railroad con-
tractor in America, who built the Minnesota
division of the Northern Pacific, returned
to st. Paul yesterday morning, after an alb
sence of two years, during which time he has
| been engaged in the construction of the Inter
national & Great Northern railroad.
J, Pierpont Morgan, the London represent
alive of the firm of Drexel,t Morgen & Co..
New York, with small party of capitalists
will leave New York to-day, with special car
| for trip over the Northern Pacific railway
| The party will come west via. the Pennsyl
vanla railroad, stopping at Cleveland Monday
to attend the funeral of President Garfield
| and will arrive at Chicago Tuesday morning.
At Chicago they will find in waiting the bust
ness and dining cars OF the Northern Pacific
on which they will come from Chicago to st
Paul over the Chicago, st. Paul & Omahs
line.
| The st. Paul s. Manitoba company has char
tered special train of five passenger coaches to
parties interested in the M. E. conference t.
| open at Fargo the 28th inst. The train viii
leave st. Paul at seasonable hour in the
morning of Tuesday the 9th, will stop a
| Osakis one hour for dinner, and will arrive il
| Fargo about 6 D. m. Next morning the trair
| will be run to Grand Forks, carrying all mem
| bers of the conference who are not kept back
| by committee work to partake of a banque
| rendered the conference by the people of Crane
Forks. After the close of the conference the
special train will return to 81 Paul over thu
Breckenridge division. Members of the con
| ference who do not 60 by the special train car
purchase round-trip Fargo tickets at any Of
| the st. P. & NJ. stations at one and one-tiftI
| the single fare.
The Green Bay and Appleton train of the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha company, leaving
here at a. m. daily, except Sunday, for Black
River Falls, makes close connections and good
time for both Green Bay and Appleton. At
Eau Claire, connections are made each way
with Wisconsin Central trains to and from
Appleton, Milwaukee and intermediate points,
md at Mcmillan connections are made each
way with Green Bay & Minnesota trains to
and from Green Bay and intermediate points.
The time is h. 25 m. to Black River Falls,
Is b. 80 m. to Appleton, 81 h. 10 m. to Mil
waukee, and IL b. IS m. to Green Bay Leav-
ing Black River Falls at 2:35 p. M, Milwau-
kee at 1920 a. M, Appleton at a. M, and
Green Bay at 7:3O a. M, passengers by this
train and it's connections reach here at 9:15 p.
NJ, being 6 b. 40 m. from Black River Falls,
~ h. IS m. from Milwaukee, Is h. Is m. from
Appleton, and Is b. 45 m. from Green Bay.
The run across Wisconsin, to and from Green
Bay or Appleton, is in very good time for a
new route.