Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-29
RAIL AND RIVER.


Z. q. Brown, superintendent of the Mani
toba sleepers, returned from the East yester-
day.
a hundred and eighty passengers will
arrive at Duluth Monday from Canada. They
are all settlers destined for points in the West.
Mr.. s. r. stimson general superintendent az
the st. Paul & Duluth, has resigned, and will
go with the Manitoba company. His sue
cessor has not yet been named.
8. 8. Merrill. general manager, of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, in company with
c. 81 Prior, assistant manager in the depart.
ment, went down the road yesterday.
The GLOBE has seen plat of the new town
of Tiffany, Foster county, Dakota, section 80,
range 149 north, range Ga west, In the Chey.
enne valley. The agent is D. j. Tallant, Grand
Forks, D. I.
A mysterious postal card turned up in the
union depot yesterday, and caused considera-
BILE comment among tho boys. 1t was written
IN me hand, and was conundrum to some,
but 1t was rumored that one OF the gate
keepers held the key to the puzzle.
There were twenty-five emigrants at ths
home yesterday. They were from Norway,
Sweden and Germany. They were clean and
in healthy condition. Warren, on the Mani
| toba line, got twenty. one of them. The 9TH
ers departed Immediately for various sections
| in the West.
The st. Paul & Duluth Railway company
| will, after August 1, operate the road
from Minneapolis to White Bear lake
| In connection with the main line This com.
paDy will hereafter run through trains be-
| tween Minneapolis and Saltwater, and regular
connections will be made at White Bear with
| the trains for Duluth. This company has
likewise acquired the branch line from Wyom-
Ing to Taylors Falls, which they will operate.
Mr.. Barnes of the passenger department of
the Northern Pacific railway, has issued
| very unique and attractive flyer, for clrcula-
ton IN the East, announcing that the sale of
| excursion tickets at very low rates to Minne-
sofa, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington
| and Oregon will commence August l, and
will continue till about August 20 for the
| benefit OF land seekers, prospectors, farmers,
| and tourists, who may wish to visit the great
Northwest during the harvest time. The an
| nouncement Is printed on good paper and is
| handsomely illuminated by cuts Of sheayes OF
wheat, the talismanic sign OF the Northern
Pacific.
Mr.. Van Horn, general manager of the
Canada Pacific line, went East at noon yes
terday, in company with President r. B.
Stevens, of the st. Paul s. Manitoba. Mr.. Van
Horn will spend twenty-four hours in Mil
waukee, where his family is, and will return
to st. Paul Monday or Tuesday. This is his
| first visit in these parts for several months.
| He went to the Manitoba country In last Feb
| ruary, and has stuck close to business ever
| since. Hard work and bad water caused him
| to lose twenty pounds in weight, valued at
$4,000. He is going TO return, notwithstand-
ing, and push the Canada Pacific road to the
| Rocky mountains.
Mr.. P. Brennan, Owatonna, contractor for
the surfacing and track laying on the st.
| Cloud & Hinckly road, when met yesterday
said the work Of construction was progressing
| rapidly. The grading is completed for
from thirty to thirty five miles, nearly half
the length OF the road, and last
Monday track-laying was commenced and is
being pushed forward at the rate of a mile
and half to two miles day, and this rate he
thought would be kept until the completion
of the road, as the graders thought they
would have no trouble now In keeping out of
the way of the track.layers. With anything
| like favorable weather, Mr.. Brennan thought
the road would be entirely completed and cars
running not later than the middle OF October