Daily globe., 1883-08-11
RaiL Notes.

Rail Notes.
Mr.. Dodge, of the st. Paul & Duluth
road, has returned from Chicago.
General Manager Manuel, of the St.
Paul & Manitoba road, has returned from
the east.
The members of the Detroit city coun-
Gil left on the Royal route last night for
the east.
The st. Paul & Duluth road will receive
two new road and one swith engine on the
first of September.
The Northwestern road has announced a
determination to carry stock, ETC., to the
state fair on very liberal terms.
W. h. Dixon, general northwestern pas
senger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, is expected back to-day.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Duluth
road for the first week in this month (Au-
gust, were 21,93S.61, against $23, 3,237.4
for the corresponding week in 1882. This
shows gain of $8,701.40.
A meeting of the Minnesota Central
Railroad Company was held at the COM
pany's Office, Gilfllan block, yesterday, at
which the name of the corporation was
changed to the Wisconsin, Minnesota &
Pacific Railway company.
A judgment of $4,000 has been grant
ed the Southern Pacific railroad against
the California Southern road. An execu-
tion has been issued, and the sheriff has
levied upon the property. The sale is ad-
vertised for August 81, at San Diego, Cal.
The st. Paul & Manitoba railroad head
quarters received intelligence yesterday
that harvesting along the line
of the Breckenridge and Fergus
Falls division of the St. Paul s.
Manitoba road had been begun and that
everything is looking very favorable.
The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk
for the week ending July %, were: Pas
sengers, express, freight and mails, $780,
957; freight and live stock, $183,599; total
ponding week of 1882, showing an increase
of $15,249, consisting of passengers, etc.,
$6,76S, freight $8,481.
Col. FIournay has returned after an alb
sence of two weeks in Wisconsin and the
lake region. He reports that the grading
from Washburn to Bayfield, was progress
ing rapidly, and that it was completed to
within two miles of Bayfield,. They are
waiting for the iron, and expect to have
the road completed within a short time.
The London Times describes brilliant
deputation of distinguished Germans who,
on the invitation of Henry Willard, are to
make grand trans continental excursion
on the Northern Pacific, and says: Himself
a Bavarian, Willard has still warm heart
for the fatherland, and consequently desires
to see Bavaria well represented in the hour
of his triumph. But he is as proficient in
the arts of advertising as he is remarkable
for the virtue of patriotism, and the North
ern Pacific will be pretty we'll known to
German emigrants in a month.
Sioux City Journal, Aug. 8: The expected
crossing war came yesterday, and was not
much of an affair. The Milwaukee com
pany had set the stakes for second track
down Second street between the depot and
the round-house, but had not yet begun to
lay the track. The Illinois Central, prob
bly, because of the move of the Milwaukee.
tore up the SO called union track used by
the Milwaukee where this union track
CROSSES the central side track leading to
the Young coal houses. Then apparently
realizing that this was bad break. the
torn track was replaced. The move may
indicate that something hasty is to be ex-
pected when the Milwaukee reaches that
point with its second track