Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-09
MORNING EXPRESS.

Bearing the Globes Daily Collection OF
Railway News and Gossip-Personal
Notes-A Large Immigration Party
Another Coming-A0 Cleveland Colony
for Dakota More Snow I'm the Southwest
Special Trains for Opera Goers Next
Week-superintendent Van. Horne Rec
kommending Agricultural Salt for Worn
Soil, Etc. N dzh
General Manager Hill, of the St. Paul
81 Manitoba, went to Chicago yesterday,
intending to return Monday next
General Manager Sargent, aud Gen
eral Passenger Agent Barnes, Of the
Northern Pacific, went to Chicago last
evening, each to spend Sunday with his
family, and to return Monday.
General Herman Haupt is expected
here from Philadelphia Wednesday next.
to arrange for removing here, and to
familiarize himself with the condition
and operation of the Northern Pacific,
preparatory to taking the place of General
Manager the 1st of next month
The st. Paul 81 Manitoba company IS
again receiving freight, and ticketing
passengers for Browns Valley.
The Hastings g. Dakota road is open
to the end of the track.
VIM. K. Smith, ESQ, prominent law
yer OF Cleveland, Ohio, and a number of
others of that city, are here preparing
for the coming of a Cleveland COLONY of
about 100 persons who arc to settle at or
near Lisbon, Ransom county, Dakota, on
lands purchased from the Northern Pa
cific company.
The st. Paul s. Omaha line, main
track, is open and not likely to be blocked
again, If frequent use will keep it clear.
Yesterday beginning was made at NOV
ing the freight which has been shut in
between st. James and Sioux City during
the last two months
Another snow storm was reported from
the southwest yesterday. On the main
line to Sioux City, snow fell all along
from Worthington west, but melted as it
fell. In the vicinity of Luverne, on the
Sioux Falls branch, the snow was dryer
and fresh wind piled it two or three
feet deep in some of the cuts, compelling
the shovel crews to abandon their work
for the day.
The Milwaukee 81 st. Paul company is
about to add to its elegant through trains
between Chicago and st. Paul a new
style OF smoking cars, provided with re-
volvlng cane-seat chairs and finished
inside and out in first class style. These
cars will probably have place in the
trains next to the sleepers.
An extra train consisting of ten pas
senger coaches and there baggage cars,
came in yesterday noon over the River
Division of the Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway, bringing party of Canadian
colOnists, men, women and children,
four hundred and thirty-one
full tickets. Twenty-one of them were
ticketed to Northern Pacific points and
the rest by the st. Paul and Manitoba
railway mostly to Winnipeg, but few
for Grand Forks and Crookston. The
party came from the Great Western rail
way Of Canada in charge of Mr.. John
Knox. Mr.. Paul Mondou of the Milwau-
kee & St. Paul conducted the party from
Chicago to st. Paul The st. Paul &
Manitoba company was enabled to for
ward the four hundred and ten ticketed
by its line promptly yesterday after
noon by the Milwaukee & st. Paul
kindly allowing five of its
coaches to go on with the party TO Win
nipeg, although another party of 45O is
to be at Chicago ready to come forward
about the time Mondou gets back with
his train. Yesterdays party has eight
carloads of stock and sixty-four carloads
of goods coming after them, which will
arrive here to-day and tonight