Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-23


Coming from st. Louis in Sixty. Eigh
Hours.
Chief Engineer Anderson, OF the Northern
Pacific, is in the city, on business of the com
pany.
Messrs. Merrill and Van Horne of the NJ. 6
St. P, left for Iowa last evening by the !. d
| NJ. division.
D. W. Washburn, agent of the Erie d Mil
waukee fast freight line at New York, is in
St. Paul for few days.
Mr.. H. F. McNally, of Toronto, travelling
agent of the st. Paul & Manitoba road, re.
| turned East by one of the noon trains of Tues
| day.
All the railroads will sell round-trip sxcur-
| sion tickets at and to all stations, for July
4th at sixty per cent of the single trip regu-
| lar rate.
sixty-two immigrants left here on the St.
St. Paul & Manitoba trains Yesterday, for Fer.
gus Falls, Alexandria, st. Cloud, Wildmar,
Anoka, etc.
W. H. Riley, Chicago, travelling passenger
agent of the c., B. s. @. road, arrived here
Tuesday and will remain in the State week
or two on business of his company.
Beginning next Monday morning, the pas
senger train of the Wisconsin & Minnesota
com pany, connecting with the Wisconsin
Central road, will leave here at6 A. NJ, instead
of 6:15A.
An excursion to Lake park, Minnetonka, to-
day, with special train and boat to make
the return trip at midnight, is notwithstanding
occasion being the first party of the season at
the Lake Park hotel.
The Eastern division of the Chicago, st.
Paul & Omaha, Monday, turned over to the
Western division about 100 loaded cars,
and the Western division, the same day, moved
in and out of St. Paul over 200 hundred loaded
cars.
During the camp-meeting all regular trains
of the M. & st. P river division, will stop at
Red Rock, and special train will be run
daily, leaving the Jackson street depot at 6:35
A. NJ, and returning, leave the camp ground
at 6:35 P. NJ.
Hon. E. B. WashburDe and party, IN the
business car of the M. & st. L. road, went
northward on the st. Paul & Manitoba road
Sunday night, and were Tuesday to be trans
Pacific, for trip to Bismarck.
G. M. Mccarthy, Esq, arranged yesterday
with the St. Paul & Duluth company for the
land league picnic excursion to White Bear,
July 4th, in which he expects that not less
than 1900 persons will JOIN. The excursion
lists will go by regular trains, paying 50 cents
each for the round trip.
Agents here of the Eastern freight lines are
of opinion that the fifteen cent rate is the very
lowest and that those who are ready to take
advantage of the cut would do we'll not to
| wait long While the cut lasts they trust
their company will have funds enough accu-
mulated to pay salaries, independent OF earn
ings.
The shipments of lumber from and via st.
Paul by the Lumber line, for the last four
weeks, were as follows: Week ending May %,
| $3.50, 600 feet; week ending June 4, 2,81O,O0O
feet; week ending June II, 3,527 900 feet; and,
the week ending June Is, 3,2l6,0OO feet. Total,
Il, 333 900 feet, or at the rate of over 170,0OO,
600 feet year.
An official circular, copied below, announces
the resignation of Major Geo. H. Smith from
the st. Paul & Duluth road, the appointment
of E. @. Sewell to be general manager of the
road, and the appointment of P. s. Harris to
Sewall. No appointment Of manager OF the
land department, to succeed Mr.. Harris, has
yet been made.
Now that the several divisions of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha line have been united
under the one company, the round trip ticket
system, some time ago adopted and put in force
east and west of St. Paul, applies to the whole
line and branches, SO that, for instance, tickets
can be bought at Sioux City or Sioux Falls
for Cable or Merilan and return at the re-
duced rate, which is 10 per cent. under the
single trip rate.
I. II. Dearborn, Chicago, general western
passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio road,
arrived here Tuesday on9 tour uniting pleas
ure with business. Mr.. Dearborn says his
road is doing a big business this year-a part
of which is bringing out about fifteen hundred
immigrants for the Northwest each week. He
remarks also that the road is in very good
condition, and is the best equipped of any road
in the country.
Major George II. Smith, whose retirement
from the superintendency of the st. Paul &
Duluth road was announced yesterday, has
been connected with the road for twelve or
thirteen wears, and is well known to all who
have had much business with the road as a
thoroughly competent and successful railroad
operator. All interested in the road will re-
gret to part from him. 1t was reported yes
terday he had been rendered prominent place
in the service of another company.
The Northern Pacific land department re-
ceived Tuesday from the farm of D. L. Well
man, Frazee City, Becker county, specimens of
growing crops as follows: Timothy, feet
high; red top, feet inches; clover, 3 feet;
| fife wheat, 2 feet 10 inches; barley, Q feet 4
inches; rye, feet; corn, 2 feet inches. Mr..
Wellman also sent samples of ripening cur
rants and of cherries, thorn apples, crab ap-
PIES and plums, all fully formed.
Messrs. Merrill, Van Horne, Haupt, Winter,
Porter, Smith, Jr., Hill and Angus, who, with
others interested In the St. Paul & Duluth
road, went to Taylors Falls, Knife Falls and
Duluth Tuesday, arrived back yesterday morn
| ing. Mr.. Rhawn, and his party from Phila-
delphia, who accompanied them to Duluth,
went west from there over the Northern Pa
cifc. The Duluth trip was made in special
| train composed of the business cars of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul, st. Paul and Manitoba
and st. Paul & Duluth roads. The gentlemen,
| after examining the c. N. Nelson Lumbering
company's great mill at Knife Falls, which is
| to be started in operation in about two weeks,
| pronounced it to be perfectly equipped with
labor saving appliances.