Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-28
RAIL AND RIVER.

Gone to the Meeting of Northwestern
Freight Agents-Return of the Hunting
Car - An Eastward Bound Excursion
Party-short-Line Collision-The N P
Land Grant-A Steamboatman's Wet
Farm-Two Boats Tomorrow.
Eleven Swedes left here on the Northern Pa
cific yesterday to settle at or near Fargo.
The Northern Pacific company has received
six new locomotives from the Baldwin Loco
motive works, Philadelphia.
Charles Thompson, of Thompson & Fetsch,
the Third street union ticket agents, has gone
to Chicago for few days.
Mr.. 7. W. Teesdale, general passenger agent
of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha, has re-
turned to his office from his long, sad attend
ance on his children.
The freight blockade at st. Louis appears to
have been raised, as the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy is again securing freight for that
city and places beyond.
c. G. Eddy, general freight agent of the
Northwestern railway, gives notice that by
arrangement with the Union Pacific prepay
ment of charges are no longer required on
butter and eggs destined to points west of
Ogden, but written guarantees of charges will
be required from the point of shipment to
destination.
The short line M & st. P train leaving here
for Minneapolis at o'clock yesterday morn
ing, short distance beyond Union park over
took and ran into freight train going west
which is said to have been four minutes be-
hind time. The caboose was split in two and
lifted over the engine. The engine was some
what damaged aut not seriously. No person
was injured.
The freight rate meeting at Chicago, to-day,
will be attended by st.. Paul agents as follows:
Judge Chandler, of the Milwaukee g. St. Paul;
j. w. Doran, of the Red Line; F. B. Clarke
and J. II. Hiland, of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha; F. 8. Swisher, of the Blue Line; and
it is possible A. B. Wilgus, of the Canada
Southern, w. F. Wilson, of the Erie & North
Shore, T. A. Mathews, of the Hoosac Tunnel
line, and several Others have also gone.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha company
sent special train to Chicago yesterday,
which was composed of three day passenger
| coaches and sleeper, carrying the Holbrook
excursion party, from Manitoba, bound to
Ottawa, and the Worcester hunting car,
"James Marble" carrying hunting party OF
seven gentlemen and three ladies, who have
| had month of pleasant frontier and hunting life
at the end of Northern Pacific track in the Vel
lowstone valley. The hunters carry home, as
proofs of their sport and success, buffalo
robes enough to supply them all and many
| other trophies of the chase.
1t has been published in several state papers
and in some Eastern papers that on the report
of the government commissioners who lately
examined the newly built track of the North
ern Pacific in the Yellowstone valley, Presi
dent Arthur will have to pass upon and decide
the question whether the Northern Pacific
company has forfeited it's land grant by no
| completing its road in the time originally al
lowed. This is undoubtedly mistake, as the
proper department, acting upon the advice o.
the attorney general, has some time ago de
cided the matter and decided 1t in favor of TIT
company-holding that the grant will con
| tiDue to inure to the company as fast al
earned until congress shall expressly declare
the grant forfeited.