Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-07


souri, was rising at Bismarck.
The party of c., st. P & O.. line directors
resumed their journey yesterday morning,
having special train for Sioux Falls.
Gen. w. D. Washburn, president of the NJ.
s. St. L. company, was in the city yesterday
and visited several of the railroad offices.
General Manager Hill, of the St. Paul &
Manitoba road, left tor Winnipeg Sunday
night, intending to return tomorrow night.
MIR. Rose, representative at Duluth of the
Collingwood line of steamers, was in st. Paul
yesterday on a business visit to railroad men.
John A. Chandler, Esq, general agent of
the c., NJ & st. P. road, at St. Paul, has gone
to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, for treatment
for rheumatism.
The c., St. P. & o. train from Chicago due
yesterday at1:30 P. NJ, was two or three hours
late. 1t consisted of twelve coaches, mostly
filled with immigrants.
A special train will be run in from White
Bear Thursday night, leaving the lake at IL
P. NJ for accommodation of persons attend
ing the first of the series of band concerts at
Leip's pavilion.
The st. P. & D. company, beginning about
the LIST of June, will, during the hot season,
run a Sunday excursion train to Taylors Falls,
| giving low rates of fare to Forest Lake, the
Chisago lakes and the Dalles.
Messrs E. T. Drake, Winter, Hatch, Clark
and Lincoln, of the c., St. p. NJ. & O. line,
went out special yesterday morning to Men.
dOta Junction, and there joined the directors
party on their trip to Sioux Falls.
Mr.. A. E. Johnson, with bis assistant, Mr..
Cary, has opened the immigration bureau OF
the St. P Aul g. Manitoba road, at the COM
pany's headquarters, in the second floor office,
next in the rear of the general and assistant
managers rooms.
Mr.. Stephen Menzies and wife, of Liver
pool. went from here to Sbley and LIE Mars
yesterday to visit friends from England, after
which Mr.. Menzies is to select body OF rail
road lands for an English colony he intends to
outfit and send out during the coming year.
The directors of the c., st. P. & o COM
pany, after starting tor Sioux City yesterday
morning changed their minds and their plans
of travel and went instead to Sioux Falls, In
tending to return to-day, in time to take the
M. & st. L. and c., B. & 9. route for Chi
cago.
H. Paul, of Liverpool, England, son of the
prominent grain importer of that city, who
few months ago bought eleven sections OF
land from the ST. Paul & Sioux City railroad
company, arrived here Sunday morning, and
is arranging to havetbis large tract of land
prepared for settlement and cultivation.
Messrs. Fl. P. Upham, c. Fl. Bgelow, ]. H.
Drake, H. Fl. Sibley, John s. Prince, E.
Warner, F. Driscoll, VIM. H. Bailey, j. L
Mer. lam ana others, directors and stockhold
| ers of the Sioux Falls water power company
left here in a special car yesterday afternoon,
| to attend the annual meeting of their company
at Sioux Falls to-day.
! Up to May 1, 1853 new buildings, mostly for
dwelling houses, have been begun this season
| at Brainerd Doubtless much of this build
| ing boom is attributed to the flush times, but
| the location of these Improvements equal in
proportion to three or four thousand new
| buildings in St. PauD at Brainerd must be
credited to the decision of the Northern Pa
| cific company to enlarge its shops in Brainerd
Hon. Warren Bristol, formerly of Minnesota.
now Judge of the Third district of New
| Mexico, has to hear one of the greatest rail-
road suits of the age. The Texas Pacific
brings suit to recover all that portion of the
| Southern Pacific which is built within the
| formers land grant in New Mexico, which is
from the Arizona boundary to Ell Paso, 100
miles, valued at S5,00O,000. A temporary in
junction has been granted forbidding the
Southern Pacific using the track, and designat-
| ing hon. s. B. Newcomb, of Las Cruces, as
| temporary receiver.
Mr.. Julin, travelling agent of the immi
grafton bureau of the st. Paul & Manitoba
| road, has gone to the Lake Superior iron re-
gion to conduct large party of Scandinavians
| from the mines to the Red River country.
Their route will be by the Northwestern rail-
road to Green Bay, and thence bv the Green Bay
& Minnesota and Chicago, St. Paul q Omaha
roads to the st. Paul & Manitoba road at St.
Paul. These Scandinavians came from
the old country two, three and
four years ago and while employed in the
mines have saved enough money to give them
/ a good start at farming on railroad and gov.
eminent lands.
Samuel S. Walbank, of Duluth, having sued
che St. Panl & Duluth company for $4,000,
on account of injuries suffered insan accident
which occurred to freight train on the COM
pany's road in january, 1880, the answer OF
the company alleges, among other things, that
| Walbank was on board of the train without
consent of the company and without paying
fare, and that he has, with a view to increas-
ing the amount he desired to recover from the
company, abandoned his profession, visited
| eminent physicians and surgeons, journeyed
20 the seacoast and made an extended tour of
Europe, all of which, it is claimed, was I'M:
leceS-ary. Ii is also O6nleQ lnaL pldlnGlu
practice was worth $1,000 year and also that
ne is or was unable to resume his practice.
At the annual meeting of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company, held in
Milwaukee Saturday, the old board of direct
i ors was reelected. Yesterday morning the
directors and some of the principal officers
i LETT Milwaukee by special train, which ar
rived here last evening. The party, which is
quartered at the Metropolitan, will remain
here few hours this morning and will then
take trip over the Hastings & Dakota divis-
ion. 1t is composed of the following named
gentlemen: Alex. Mitchell, Milwaukee; Julius
Wadsworth, J. Milbank and Peter Geddes,
New York; Selah Chamberlain, Cleveland; J
!, c. Easton, Chattield; s. S. Merrill, Milwaukee;
d Fred. White, w. w. Niles, Jno. P. Townsend;
T. NJ. Hawley, Fl. Brightman and D. B. St
John, New York; c. S. jenkins, Newburgh,
N. Y; Jno. L,wler, Prairie du Chen; A. j
Easton, Chattield; w. c. Van Horne, Milwau-
kee; A. P Wilcox, New York, and L. F.
Eiston, Lanesboro.
Some two years ago an extension OF the Blue
Firth branch road was projected to connec-
/. ton at the State line with road which the
Chicago q Northwestern company was build
ing nOrthward from Des Moines via Webster
: City and Algona. A year ago work was being
pushed on this line aud it was expected it
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