Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-31
RAIL AND RIVER.

itsupsrntendsnt Of Transportation Gross, Of the
N. p, 10 back from Duluth.
Mr.. Allen, general western passenger agent Of the
Baltimore Ohio, arrived yesterday.
All She Offices In the Manitoba building are re-
ceiving the benefit Of the painters brush.
Assistant G. P. A. Davis, Of the Manitoba road,
has hoped away again, this time to Chicago.
Mr. Frank Ross, assistant general passenger
agent OF the Houston L Texas Central railway, ar
rived yesterday.
The weather reports Of the Manitoba road indi-
cate that the climatic conditions are clear and cold
on the entire northern division.
Mr. II. O Ives, assistant general manager Of the
st. Paul Manitoba, went East the royal route
last night for ten days trip East.
Chicago man telegraphed to the Hotel Lafayette
for two or three rooms on October Is. He did not
getherooms. as the hotel will by that time be closed
lot ING season
MIR. W. H. Dixon, commissioner Of the Western
Trunk Lines Passenger association, with offices at
Chicago, arrived in the city yesterday. His sigma
turs is handsome enough to justify having it en-
grayed.
The Lowell, (Mass.) Courier says that q piece Of
whalebone, fifty inches long, ten inches wide and
seven inches thick, has been dug up on the Cana
dian Pacific railroad. 1t is supposed to have be-
The Northern Pacific Railway company il receiv-
ing, for exhibition at the Minneapolis fair, samples
of oats grown 120 miles west of the Missouri river
that will yield ITO bushels to the acre. sampss Of
wheat are also arriving from The section which
will run forty-e;ght bushels to the acre.
The emigration department of the Manitoba road
sent nineteen passengers last night for points in the
Red river valley Among them was party of five
Swsdss direct from Sweden, who 60 to Marshall
county to take up land; party Of Iceanders direct
from Iceland, who were booked to St. Vincent, from
which point they will 60 into the Pembina mountains
to locate in the Icelandic colony.
The emigration department of the Manitoba road
has telegrsphic advices from the general western
Office of the American Steamship line at Chicago
that IC0 seabOard emigrants, mostly Sesndinavans,
passed through Chicago early yesterday morning
route for the northwest. They crosse the
in the American line steamship, State Of Illinois,
and landed in Philadelphia last Sunday after quick
and comfortable passage.
Under the head Of emigration reports received at
the emigration department of the Manitoba from
various steamship lines in the emigrant traffic, there
IL Uniform and gratifying increase even over last
years business. In some cases the number of emf
grants carried this year has been double What was
carried during the corresponding period last year.
and much larger proportion than formerly arrived
booked through to the northwest.
The Milwaukee Egening Wisconsin Of the 18th
contains the following: Ex-Gov. Thad Pound was in
Chicago yesterday and said that he interested in
the building Of . new trunk line from Oconto west
The line has st. Paul objective point and with
all its branches will be about 800 miles long, and will
take in Shawano and the lumber district. There
$50 men and large number of teams employed In
grading the road and ia expected that about thirty
miles will be finished this season.