Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-02-16
CONDENSED NEWS.
RAILROADS.

The three commissioners are selected under
the terms of the recent settlement
between the trunk line railroads
to recommend basis OF agreement in
the matter Of differential rates, have agreed y TO
undertake the work. They are ex-JuGge T.
ID. Cooley of Michigan, ex-senator Allen g.
Thurman of Ohio, and Hon. Elihu B. Wash
burne OF Illinois. Business men are taken
quite by surprise by tho choice OF the commit
tee made by the trunk line people. The fitness
OF the eminent gentlemen selected to exercise
judicial of advisory functions in the matter
submitted to them is admitted by all, but it
was hardly expected that the trunk line msg-
mates would go entirely outside the domain of
railroading in making up their committee.
J.. J. Hill of the Manitoba railroad has bought
for 5000, 900 an ADDITION to his water power
in Minneapolis. The purchase makes Mr..
Hills Investment in water power property in
Minneapolis reach the magnificent sum of $2,,
0O0, 200, and the purchase removes the last
of the obstacles to the plans for extensive i'm
provement of the property which
he has in contemplation and in
carrying out his railrord plans.
Advices from Wichita, Kan, are that A. P.
Lewis, from Falls City, Neb., and four COM
panions arrived there Monday last, having
been arrested IN Oklahoma and cent out of the
territory by Maj. Randall, the commandant at
Fort Reno Maj. Randall is on the look out
for Capt Paine the Oklehoma boomer, who is
said to be in the territory with large band.
j. M Lawry, gIneral master mechanic of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, will sail
for Europe on one of the Cunard steamers next
Wednesday, accompanied by his wife. MIR.
Lawry goes across the water for the purpose OF
purchasing tools and machinery for the com
pany So crowded are all the iron manufac-
turing institutions in this country with woik
that the company is unable to keep supplied
| with machinery and TOOLS
IT, hot
P. Atkins ls to be appointed general superin-
tendent of tie Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul
road, tc succeed ". c. Van Horne. Mr.. At
kins is now superintendent of the Chicago di-
vision of the road, and he will be succeeded
there by Al. Earling, the present assistant su-
| perinteudent.
MIR. Henry Willard of the Northern Pacific
railroad is of the opinion that the whest raisers
| of the far northwest are at the mercy of the
merchants who buy their wheat at prices which
| the merchants themselves are able to dictate,
and 80 he proposes, after awhile, to build an
elevator or warehouse at every station.
Henry c. Wa,moth, agent of the Adams Ex-
press company at Bladenburg, ky, who disap-
pearad December, 1878, with Sis, 900 of the
company's funds, was arrested at Philadelphia.
He had registered at a hotel with woman, as
a. W. Wilmut and wife.
President Keep of the Chicago & North
western says that the January earnings will
show an increase of about $4OO, 900, and the
company's next report will also show net earn
ings at the rate of IA per cent on the stock.
Mr. P. W. Brunson, for several years the
capable superintendent of tho city department
of the St. Paul postoffice. has resigned tha.
responsible Office to take more lucrative and
less exacting position in the union depot
The president has pardoned James Webb,
who was convicted Of murder aud sentenced by
United States consular court at Nagasaki,
to be hanged.