Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-19
RAIL AND RIVER.

Uoou hepOrt from tho FARMERS OI the
Northwest-End of the Mnnitobais trike-
Sale of Is, 40 Acres of Railroad Land to
One Purchaser--The St. Paul Rate Sheet.
The River and Bosts-PersonaI and Local
Gossip.
About twenty colonists and land hunters
left here on the Manitoba train last evening
for points above Crookston.
Mr.. Thomas Bullion, clerk in the general
freight office of the st. Paul & Manitoba road
has resigned his place there and accepted po.
sition as ook-keeper for Forepaugh &Tarbox'
The official report as to the strike at the
Manitoba shops, yesterday, was that the strike
was all over. The blacksmiths have resumed
work, and the striking boiler makers been
discharged.
Underwood, of the Milwaukee s. st. Paul
road, promised TO furnish the core of an item
yesterday if the reporter would wrap it up
and he did. He came down town horseback
and instantly the streets had it that the Mil
waukee Light Horse Guard was coming, the
drum major ahead, bat without his baton OF
uniform.
I. W. Teasdale, Esq, general pass enger
agent of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha rail.
way, was missed from his Office yesterday, and
on inquiry the reporter learned that he had lost
yesterday morning, by death, his child, boy
of or four years. The sympathy of their
new friends in st. Paul will attend Mr. and
Mrs. Teasdale in their grevious misfortune.
Talking about high-colored railroad writing
we haven't forgotten Geo. Hazards harvest
moon excursion bills, but must wait The
proper season for quoting for them. Nor
have we forgotten that before Hannaford set.
tied down to prosaic freight business he was
rather poetical (sweetly sweet, the girls said,
in writing up the Northern Pacific ride across
Dakota.
Mr.. Wakeman, superintendent of transporta.
ton for the st. Paul 81 Manitoba company
who came from Fergus Falls, Monday, OBJ
served that the farmers were busy blowing
all along the road, and saw no mud until he
reached Minneapolis. At Fergus Fall he was
informed that north and northwest of that
place fall plowing had been but little delayed
by rains.
Mr.. ]. B. Power, land commissioner of the
st. Paul & Manitoba company, has closed a
contract, selling to G. j.. Furlong, Esq, OF
Cork, Ireland, twenty and a half sections, OF
Ii, 100 acres of the company's lands, situated
west of Angus and southwest of Warren, in
the lower Red River country of Minnesota.
The total consideration Is about $S5, 900. Mr..
Fnrlong buys for cultivation, intending to be-
gin breaking next spring and get all his land
into crops as early as possible. He may main
tain large wheat farm, under his own super.
intendency, for some years, but his plan OF
operations has chiefly in view the settling OF
Irish tenant farmers on the lands, under leases
which will give them the privilege of pur-
chase on terms easy to them but still profit
able to him. Mr.. Furlong is so well satisfied
with his venture that he returned to the Red
Rivea country yesterday to select more lands
to buy.
The meeting OF general passenger agents
announced a few days ago was held yesterday
forenoon at the Union depot. The reads rep
resented were the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha,
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, the Min
neapolis q st. Louis, the st. Paul & Manitoba,
the Northern Pacific and the st. Paul & Du.
luth. Communications were received from
the general passenger agents of connecting
roads, accounting for their absence and ex.
pressing approval of the understood objects OF
the meeting. A basis of rates was agreed
upon and it was decided to issue monthly
joint rate sheets, to be known as the st. Paul
sheet. 1t was also agreed to meet hereafter on
the goth OF each month, and some miscel-
laneous business was transacted. Although
no formal organization was had the month J
meeting is likely to be designated as that OF
the st. Paul Association.