Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-17
RIVER AND RAIL.
Jottings from Saturdays Notes Among
Men of LOCOmotion.


Yesterdays crop reports from along the
line of the st. Paul & Manitoba road
presented no new features of moment,
Almost the stereotyped report was
weather cloudy and cool; prospects In
changed.
w d. Sanborn, general agent of the 9.
B. g. @. and st. Louis road, with head
quarters at ST. Louis, reached St. Paul
Yesterday on two weeks vacation for
rest and recreation, made necessary by
the arduous duties of his office. Mr..
Sanborn will occupy his time between ST..
Paul, Minneapolis and the lake resorts.
Gen. Willard and party, Of the Northern
Pacific road, whose trip over the road
from st. Paul west to the terminus of
the present construction, has been duly
chronicled in the GLOBE, left last night
on their return to New York, going by
the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha to Chi
cago.
Mr.. E. NJ. Dickey, Dubuque, general
freight agent of the Diamond 10 line of
Mississippi river steamboats,, after spend
ing a couple of days in taking a birds
eye view of ST. Paul, Minneapolis and the
numerous lake resorts contiguous, for
which Minnesota is so famous, left for
home and resumption of labor by the
Diamond 10 of the line last evening.
The through Kansas City express on
the c. St. P. & D. road. arriving at noon
Yesterday, brought in two sleepers full of
through passengers, en- route for recrea-
ton and health at the Minnesota summer
resorts in and about St. Paul, and the
afternoon train took out two empty sleep
ers for Kansas City, the accommodations
of which are already engaged for the
next incoming through train.
Advices from Bismarck received at the
Northern Pacific railroad offices yester-
day announced that the steamer Butte
would leave for Fort Benton on Tuesday
night on the arrival Of the n. P. train
from St. Paul, with the $50 mechanics
and laborers for the military post at Fort
Maginnis, to be followed by the Black
Hills on Wednesday, with 100 mechanics
and laborers for Assinibonie.
James D. Brown, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Missouri Pacific rail
road, (part of the Jay Gould combination
with headquarters at Omaha, made St.
Paul Yesterday in search of bit of fresh
air, and will remain until Tuesday, by
which time he hopes to be sufficiently re-
cuperated to stand another season of the
''fervent heat'' with which Omaha and
other localities in the same latitude have
been afflicted for weeks past
The St. Louis river express of the c.,
M. & ST. Paul road-running time be-
tween st. Paul and St. Louis twenty-five
hours and twenty minutes-is proving
immensely popular with the travelling
public, through cars both ways going
crowded, and local traffic unexpectedly
large. This experience is but cOnfirma-
ton of all experience, the. better the ia
cilitles for travelling the better the pat
ronage, and the better return for the in
vestment made.
One of the significant shipments of the
times was received at the Union stock
yards yesterday morning, from the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road. The
shipment consisted of four cars of garded
bulls, purchased from the best stock
farms in Illinois and Iowa, by the Dickey
Bros, of Montana, and are destined for
their great herding farm, about 100 miles
from the Little Missouri crossing of the
Northern Pacific road, where they have
several thousand head of cattle grazing
The shipment was forwarded by the N.
P. last evening, and in due time return
shipments will pass through st. Paul
bound East.