Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-20
RAIL AND RIVER.

RAIL AND RIVER.
Union Depot to be Opened Next Monday
The Ticket Agents-Track Laying in |
Northern Dakota-Local and Personal |
Notes-A Rising River-The Gem City
To-Day.
A. 81. Bode, general traffic manager of |
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway, was
doing st. Paul yesterday.
Mr.. Peter Harvey, travelling agent of !
the Baltimore & Ohio road, is in st. Paul
on business of his company.
Mr. Jules M Hannaford, general freight
agent of the Northern Pacific, left yes
terday afternoon for short business visit
to Omaha.
A Bismarck dispatch of yesterday an
nounced the arrival there from the upper
river of the steamer Far West, with two
passengers, and the Red Cloud with nine
passengers.
Mr.. W. H. Hurd, formerly steward at
the Merchants, this city, but for several
years past at the Sheridan house, Bis
marck, is to have charge of the Union
depot restaurant.
Capt. Naner, one of the representatives
of the emigration bureau of the st. Paul
& Manitoba company, passed through the
ci y yesterday with small party of newly
arrived Scandinavians, bound for the Red
River valley.
The track Of the Northern Pacific Cas-
selton branch is to be extended to about
seventy-fve miles northwest from Cassel-
ton by December l. The track layers are
| to begin on the new grade, thirty two
miles north of Casselton, Monday next.
Notice of the acceptance of the pro-
visions of section l28 and 129, chapter
| 81, general statutes of the State, on the
subject of railroad taxation, by the Tay-
lor's Falls g. Lake Superior Railroad COM
! pany, was filed with the Secretary of
State yesterday.
George H. Kuebel, Jr., and Herman
Brown are the Union depot ticket agents.
Mr.. Kuebel has been depot ticket agent
| for the Omaha company, and Mr.. Brown
| has been depot ticket agent for the Mil
waukee company. The outside public
| cordially approves their selection.
Two trains, each of twenty cars, loaded
with cattle, left the Keith stock yards on
the Missouri division of the Northern
| Pacific Thursday evening, for Chicago
They will arrive here tomorrow morn
| ing, and the cattle, which belong to AL
fred Myers, will be rested here over Sun
day.
The St. Paul & Manitoba company has
it's track-layers at work on it's Pembina
line, now graded from Grand Forks, OAK.
to the Manitoba boundary. The road
| runs parallel to add about twelve miles
west of the Red river, and is to he opened
to Grafton, the county seat of Wabash
county, about Oct. 1.
The St. Paul part of the Minnetonka
excursion of Thursday night was kept at
home by an engine and two stock cars
getting off the Manitoba track near the
Como avenue bridge and blocking the
road. Hazard proposes, however, to
keep it up and next Thursday coming
will move the party on time
Sleeping car accommodations are short
on all the roads during this season of
heavy travel The Omaha company's
| Chicago trains in and out yesterday had
each two full sleepers, with applications
for more berths, and the same company's
Omaha trains, both ways, needed three
sleepers to and from Kansas City.
The Northern Pacific and Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation companies have en-
ployed Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, late in
charge of the coal and iron statistics of
the national census bureau, to conduct
geological examination of the territory
tributary to the two companies, from the
Pacific to Lake Superior. Prof. Pun
pelTy will begin his work in Montana.
Although the preliminary arrangements
are not wholly concluded, it is more than
probable that the St. Paul & Duluth
company will complete the branch from
Rush City to Grantsburg, Wis, early
next season, and that the piers for the
st. Croix bridge will be laid during the
coming fall and winter. A large amount
of wood and lumber will be cut next win
ter, to be sent to market by this line.
The mechanics who are at work in the
union depot say they cannot get through
with the lower story before a late hour
of Sunday. Consequently, the railroad
companies will not be admitted until
NEXT Monday morning, and the Omaha
and Milwaukee people will have lively
time transferring their tickets between
p. m. of Sunday and a. m. of Monday.
The upper story of the depot will not be
finished before about the LIST of October.
The lady who was said to have sprained
her ankle in jumping from the Minneton-
ka excursion train of last Tuesday night
when the midnight collision occurred in
Minneapolis, was Mrs. F. E. Smith, of
No. 1872 East Sixth street. 1t appears
that her injury was more serious than re-
ported, she having broken her left leg at
the ankle, Mrs. Smith was only one of
the many who jumped from the cars at
the time, all the passengers being great
ly startled by the crash forward when the
locomotive ran through on the open
side track. She had surgical attendance
until the next morning, the M. & st. l..
the excursion train.
The Terndate Shell City G Northern Rail-
ROAD Company.
Articles of incorporation of the Vern-
dale, Shell City & Northern Railroad
company. were filed with the secretary Of |
state yesterday The proposed road is to
commence at the Verndale, Wadena
county and run from thence to Shell CITY |
in the same county, and from thence in a |
northerly direction to a point on the |
north or west boundary of |
the State. The principal place |
of transacting of the business