Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-13
RAIL AND RIVER.

Rates Allowed at Manitoba Ofices-sum-
mer Visits of Railroad Men, River Boats
for St. Louis-- Duluth Port List.
The Union depot may be ready for use next
Monday, but there is good deal OF finishing
work yet to be done.
Twenty-Five excursionists, going west on
the Northern Pacific, arrived yesterday from
Canada and Michigan.
Mr. Marsh. of Joliet, H., one OF the Oldest
agents of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
road, was here yesterday on his way to Winni-
peg.
Mr.. l. E. Clark has been appointed train
dispatcher of the St. Paul division of the c.,
st. P. & o. railway, with headquarters at st.
Paul.
Messrs. Porter, Winter, Hatch and john
ston, of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha line,
will return from their Nebraska tour Sunday
noon.
party of one hundred and fifty Canadians,
en- route for visit to Northern Pacific points,
will arrive at Duluth from Collingwood to-
day.
MIR. F. C. Hills, Missouri Valley, general
traffic manager of the Sioux City q Pacific
road, is reported to be on the way to-day for
short visit to Minnesota.
1t is asserted at Montreal that the action of
the executive committee in New York will
have no effect whatever on the present policy
of the Grand Trunk railway.
General Manager Hill and Chief Engineer
Smith of the st. Paul & Manitoba road have
gone to Fargo, where Vice President Oakes of
the Northern Pacific preceded them by few
hours.
The Union Pacific and Texas Pacific party
mentioned yesterday, are on the way to Lake
Osakis, with Assistant General Manager Man.
vel, of the St. Paul q Manatoba road. intend
ing to return Monday.
Over six hundred people Joined in the har-
vest moon excursion to Lake Minnetonka
Thusday evening, and all pronounce it a very
pleasant affair. The next excursion will go
10 the Park hotel, where brilliant reception
is promised.
The benefit of the cutting of passenger rates
on the eastern trunk lines has been extended
to residents along the st. Paul q Manitoba
lines, all agents of the company having been
supplied with cut rate sheets and authorized
10 sell llck6GS
The trunk line fight seems to be far from
settlement. The Erie and Baltimore officials
denounce Vanderbilt in pretty severe terms,
and fatty contradict his late statements about
their operations. But when the fall business
sets in, the fight will, as in former seasons,
soon be stopped.
1t has been discovered that Eastern lines
have been selling excursion tickets to Mani
toba by way of Chicago and Duluth, which
were not iron clad ond accordingly got into
the hands of scalpers. The Manitoba CON-
pany will not honor them and some of the
scalpers' customers will be left.
Sir Alex T Calf, commissioner of Canadi-
IN affairs at London, accompanied by Mr.. g.
Gait, of Montreal and Mr.. G. Gait of Chicago,
are en- route for trip to Winnipeg. They
have been Joined at Chicago by afessrs. George
Stephen and r. B. Angus, together with the
Misses Maud and Edith Angus.
The Northern Pacific land department has
received from Glendlve, on the Yellowstone, a
liberal sample of potatoes raised there this
season by r. R. Robinson. They were planted
the middle of May, have attained their full
growth and are equal in appearance and quail
ity to the best to be had in market here.
Near Moorhead, Wednesday, wheat was cut,
threshed and taken to market, which, on the
morning of the 18th, ten hours after the grain
was cut, was turned into flour. The wheat
was No. hard, and the field from which it is
cr,t is claimed to have yielded thirty bushels to
the acre, while an oat field on the same farm
yielded eighty-eight bushels to the acre. This
warn comes from railroad sources and is
averred to be well ballasted.
Mr.. H. e. Townsend, st. Louis, general
passenger agent of the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific railway, Mr.. F. Chandler, St. Louis,
general passenger agent OF the Missouri
passenger agent of the Chicago & Eastern H.
iinois, and Mr.. A. V. Fl. Carpenter, general
passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee
tH st. Paul, went to Lake Osakis last night
with Assistant General Manager Marvel, of
the st. Paul & Manitoba railway.
Mr.. G. G. Crowfeld, of Rushford, Minn.,
called at the emigration bureau of the st. Paul
4 Manitoba company yesterday. He has just
returned from visiting relatives near Colenso,
Polk county, in the Red River valley, about
fifteen miles from Ada, on the Manitoba road.
His relatives have been two years on home
steads there, and have 240 acres in wheat,
which they feel certain will yield not less than
twenty bushels per acre. They are on the
bottom lands, Wnero IL was Sdlu, laSG spring,
the wheat was likely to fail because of too
much water.
Under the head of 'Shaking the Central"
the Sioux City Journal says: superintendent
Gere was interviewed yesterday about the re-
port that his company, the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha, is having line sur
veyed from LeMars to this city. Capt Gere
admitted that patty of engineers had begun
word at LeMars. AS to the route of the sur
vey the captain SAID that he supposed that the
best route possible would be selected, and
smiled About building the line this season,
no information could be obtained from the
superintendent. He said that it would be diff
ficult to get a force together to grade the
roadbed this season, but that if graded it
could be ironed."
Getting in Shape to Agree.
New YORK, Aug. 12.-The Express says
there seems to be sort of tacit understanding
in financisl circles here that Vanderbilt is in
favor of five-year money pool among the
trunk lines as way out of the continual cut
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