Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-05
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Winnipeg train was eight hours late
yesterday.
Geo. F. Lee, travelling passenger agent
of the Rock Island road, was in town yes
terday.
P. B. Groat, general emigrant agent of the
Northern Pacific, will be back from the East
to-day.
The Milwaukee train yesterday afternoon
was an exceedingly heavy one and had two
sleepers attached.
Mr.. Teasdale, of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha. and Mr.. stimson, Of the st. Paul &
Duluth road, have gone to Chicago.
id. Brown, assistant passenger agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road, has
gone north, to be absent probably till Sun.
day.
Two car loads OF recruits from Fl. Smelling
were brought down yesterday, and sent last
night to Fort Custer by the Northern Pacific
road.
The o'clock train on the st. Paul & Mani
toba road yesterday morning went out loaded
to the guards with people. for the upper
country.
Last night the Northern Pacific sent out
eight cars and two elegant sleepers. Here
after these sleepers will run regularly to and
from st. Paul.
Gen. Haupt and party of the Northern Pa.
cifc road. left yesterday in two special cars
attached to the Omaha train, for Chicago, to
meet Vice President Cakes.
Immense piles of baggage are handled daily
at the union depot. Railroad men do not
hesitate to assert that the daily handling OF
baggage in st. Paul is greater than in
Chicago.
From an advertisement in another column
it will be seen that the St. Paul & Manitoba
road will begin running excursion trains to
Minnetonka next Sunday. The first train will
| leave at $50 a, m. and return to st. Paul at Z
p. m.
10. Scott, the big Montana cattle raiser, hat
at the transfer grounds in the west part of st
| ing for three more cars Of the same kind O.
animals, making eight cars of bulls for hi.
| big breeding ranch.
| The land sales of the st. Paul & Manitob,
road for April last foot up as follows: On
hundred and fifty-nine purchasers, II 1873 acres
amounting to $l05, 047 35, an average of 5,
per acre, and 100 acres to each buyer. Durln,
the first four months of the year the sale
aggregated 63,741 acres, amounting to 1910,
OOS So, averaging S5.SS per acre. There wer'
S04 buyers and to each one so acres. Thes
figures show a very healthy condition o
the market, and is a great compliment
to the system adopted by Mr.
Power. These sales are to actual settlers
and show very conclusiyely that an immens
immigration is pouring into the great north
west. From May LIST to the 4.h S2,777 acre
were sold.
| The La Crosse Chronicle has the following
An impression has got abroad among railroad
men that the passenger department of tn
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
will be reorganized upon a somewhat move
plan. According to this plan Mr.. Carpenter
general passenger agent, is to be given thu
title of the superintendent of passeng er traffic
with authority over all branches of the de
partment but with lessened duties and cares
that a young man of experience and bright
capacity is to be installed under Mr.. Carpen
ter as general passenger agent,and that Tone,
Merrill, present first general ticket agent, IL
to be given the title Of general ticket agent
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