Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-17

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Hairs appointment in the Northwestern
Mr.. stickney for Manitoba-Northern
Pacific Land sa1es-The Upper Missouri
Floods Frozen-Major Hatch to be Gener-
al Superintendent of the st. Paul q Omaha
and Place Coming for Mr.. Winter-Fa-
tai Accident at Lakeland, Etc. Etc.
"The Sioux City road was the first to raise
our blockade" writes gentleman Of Manka-
to, "and we here know Its officers have done
all that could be done for opening up their
road"
\Viee President Angus, of the st. P. & NJ.
company, who Is now in Ottawa or Montreal,
Is to 60 to Europe on business of the Canadian
Pacific syndicate, before returning to st.
Paul.
The connection OF the st. P. & NJ, company
with the syndicate Is likely to result in nu-
merous changes, among the
first of which to be officially
announced will be the transfer Of Mr..
A. B. sticknsy, superintendent Of construction
for the st. P. & NJ. company, to Manitoba,
and to the superintendency of construction of
an important division of the Canadian Pacific.
Our Manitoba friends will find Mr.. stickney
valuable addition to the forces which are to
develope and increase their province.
The injuries to Mr.. W. s. Kemp by the &C
cident on the Lakeland spur track yesterday
forenoon are not serious. He was slightly
scalded about his head and one hand was bad
ly scalded, but not enough to keep him from
his work more than day or two.
A locomotive was switched off the track
near East St. Paul station yesterday, but not in
place to interrupt business and the machine
was not injured.
About 4 P. M.yesterday Mr.. Hope telegraph
ed from st. James that Superintendent Gears
big working crew had reached and uncovered
the engine which was stalled and went dead
the 1st inst, about nine miles west of St.James,
and that the engine was then being thawed
out. Mr.. Hope also said that
the snow plow and shovelers were then
throwing snow in face of the passenger train
At 4: 40 P. M, came the weldome announce
ment that the whole line from St. Paul to
Sioux City was at last clear, the working
parties from Lincoln'S and Gears divisions
having met near Mountain Lake. At II 2.
NJ, st. James telegraphed that Gear and Hope
were just leaving for st. Paul in double
header double train, being the passenger trains
WHICH IelG SlOuA Clty lOT CT. Idui Oh tne
1st and I'd insts., the first of which was
stalled at Mountain Lake, and the second at
Heron Lake. About fifty passengers who
have been shut in at the two places named
for two weeks were on the train as formed at
st. James, which was expected to reach st.
Paul aboutss5 o'clock this morning.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific land
department last month amounted to 81, $40
acres, for s170, ,422, being at an average of
Tn hp
ment also sold eighty-one town lots for $3.50.
Most of the sales of the month were for cash,
the proportion of credit sales being unusually
small. The correspondence of the department
promises very large immigration the coming
season into the Northern Pacific country. The
letters Of inquiry regarding the compaDy's
lands are more numerous than ever before, and
come from every direction and country, from
which immigration could reasonably be an
ticipated.
Dispatches received yesterday by General
Manager Sargent report the temperature ten to
twenty degrees below zero in the Upper
Missouri country, which has frozen up the
Milk, Poplar and Tongue rivers, stopping the
breakup of ice and rise of the rivers, which
threatened to interfere with the n. P. COM
pany's winter work on the river at Bismarck.
Mr.. Robert s. Hair has resigned his posi-
tion as general passenger agent of the st. Paul
& Duluth road and will, as soon as he can
close up his business here, remove to Chicago
he having accepted an appointment as gen
eral travelling passenger agent Of the Chicago
& Northwestern company-the position re-
Gently vacated ~ Mr.. Barnes, now general
passenger agent of the Northern Pacific. All
Duluth passenger department while under his
administration, will regret to lose him; but
the selection Of as yonng man for the I'M
portant place he is to hold for the Chicago &
Northwestern, by such veterans as Messrs.
Hughitt and Stennett, is to be regarded as an
evidence that he has gained reputation for
business ability among railroad men which
augurs well for his future. He will probably
leave for Chicago Monday next.
With reference to publication yesterday of
q reported statement Of Mr.. Washburn that
Major Hatch's resignation of the superin-
tendency of the M. & st. L. road, Mr.. E. W.
Winter, general superintendent of the st. Paul
& Omaha line, said yesterday 1t was fact
that Major Hatch was to succeed him as gen.
eral superintendent of the st. P. & O., but
what further had been published regarding
Further Mr.. Winter did not say, but the
GLOBE will remark that 1t may be presumed
Mr.. Winter will have an important position
in the organization of the c., st. p, NJ. & o.
company, which is contemplated under the
bill allowing the companies In the Omaha
line to be consolidated. 1t Is not probable
that Mr. Winter is to succeed Hon. E. F.
Drake as vice president, since Mr.. Drake's
office is only In the st. Paul & Sioux City and
Sioux City & st. Paul companies, whose roads
form only part of the Omaha line.
So far as the season would permit, the Nor
ris & Browns Valley branch was last fall pro-
tected by fences against the usually trouble
some storms of winter. There was not time
to guard it on both sides. But in
stead of coming from the northwest the late
blizzard was from the southeast, and 1t just
filled that little road full of snow drifts Since
the storm passed vigorous efforts have been
made to clear the road, and by tonight 1t will
probably be opened to Browns Valley. 1t has
been closed only few days, and at headquarters
of the (St. P. & NJ company here it is not be-
lieved that the short suspension of Its opera
tions has caused any suffering. The stations
and people along the road were well supplied
with fuel, and If any suffering has occurred in
that section it must be in back settlements,
where the people have been unable to 60 to the
railroad because of the country roads being
obstructed. Nevertheless, the company will
be ready to do its part towards relieving dis
tress which may be discovered
Mr.. T. W. Teasdale, general passenger agent
of the c., st. P, M. q o. line, has sent out
circulars announcing that his line is selling
(until February 26) first class tickets, st. Paul
via Chicago to New Orleans and return, for
S44.0O, good to return from New Orleans until
March 20, and also that from February 26 to
March 9 it will sell tickets to Washington and