Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-27
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE.

to Montana -Morgan's Iowa Barge Line
avian Editors at Fergus Falls Tonight
Personal and Rail and River Items--Th
Trunk Line War--Cheap Passenger Rates
from New York 10 Chicago.
The steamer Nellie Peck is to leave Bismarck
this evening for Benton.
Eighteen immigrants left here yesterday for
st. Cloud and Fergus Falls.
The excursion to Elme this evening, on oc-
casionof the weekly band concerts, promises
to be the largest of the season.
Grading was begun on Monday at several
points on the Little Falls & Dakota road, at
and between Little Falls and sauk Center.
Hon. Timothy Case; of Green Bay, receiver
of the Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad com
pany, was registered at the Merchants yester-
day.
Now that the Northern Pacific railroad is in
operation. to Glendive no more boats will run
up the Yellowstone this season from Bis
marck.
81. c.. Townsend, general passenger
agent of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific
railway, is taking summer vacation with
his family at Lake Minnetonka.
The Scandinavian editors will continue their
northern trip this morning from Fergus Falls
by special train, which will include the Can
ada Pacific official car.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul from Chicago,
due at 1 p. m. yesterday, was about two hours
late-on account, it is said, of the heavy haul,
the train being an unusually long one.
One hundred army recruits will leave. here
by Northern Pacific special this evening for
Glendive, from which point they will proceed
by stage and wagon to the Yellowstone posts.
The first of the great harvest excursions to
Northern Minnesota and Dakota began from
principal Eastern points yesterday, and some
of the excurslonsts will reach here to. NOR
row.
Charles O'Neil, an engineer in the employ
of the Chicago. st. Paul & Omaha com paDy,
fell from switch engine at Eau Claire Sat
urday, and broke both bones of one leg be-
low the knee.
The Union depot OF st. Paul will come into
regular use Monday next by which time the
lower floor will be finished. The building will
soon he celebrated for It's beauty, and adapta-
bility to its uses, and will make most favor
able impression upon all who enter it.
Assistant President Winter, General Super
intendent Hatch and Traffic Manager Charles,
of the Chicago, St. Paul 4 Omaha railway,
went to Eiroy yesterday, TO meet General Man
ager Hughitt and General Superintendent
Long, of the Chicago d Northwestern, for a
conference regarding the enlargement of the
joint yards at Elroy.
Presidents Stephens, Vice President Angus,
and Hon. Donald A. Smith, of the St. Paul g.
Manitoba and Canada Pacific railway com
,panies, left here by special at o'clock
last evening for Winnipeg, in the splendid
official car of the St. Paul & Manitoba COM
pany. General Manager Hill, who proceeded
them to Fergus Falls, will accompany them
from that point.
David Morgan, of Iowa, president of the
Iowa Barge-line railroad, is credited with a
project for building an air line railroad or
railroads from KeOkuk through Iowa into
Minnesota, Dakota and Nebraska, by which
he hopes to turn the grain carrying of the
upper valley into barge line from Keokuk to
New Orleans. Mr.. Morgan will make seri
takes to compete with the riverside railroads
by building through the interior country.
An extraordinary special train left here on
the Northern Pacific yesterday afternoon. 1t
consisted of two cars of feed, thirteen cars
of stock, locomotive and caboose.
The stock, in charge of w. P. Turner,
of Nashville, Tenn, and eight assistants,
included one hundred and ten head of thor
oughbred short horn bulls and about as many
head of heifers and calves of the same blood.
The stock is bound for Ford's Sun River
rancho in Montana, and will be driven over
land from Glendive. The stock was mostly
bought in Kentucky, for NJ. Ford's benefit,
and cost altogether in Kentucky over $4,000.
It is estimated this shipment makes up over
eight hundred head OF Thoroughbred bulls
taken to Montana this season, for improve
ment of the stock of that territory.