Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-01
RNiL Notes.

1nS Cdndulau faclu Is expected TO
reach the Saskatchewan this week.
J. NJ. Hannaford, general freight agent
of the Northern Pacific, is home again
from Chicago.
Two sleepers were required last night to
accommodate the travel to Fargo over the
Northern Pacific.
Secretary Teller is in a hurry to have
the lands IN the Northern Pacific grant
thrown open for settlement.
G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific, absent at Chicago,
will return home tomorrow.
A. H. Pride, general Eastern agent of
the Chicago & Northwestern road, left this
city for New York by the Eastern express
last night.
Within the past twenty four hours 5000
head of stock from st. Cloud and other
points have been shipped to Miles City
over the Northern Pacific.
". S. Alexander, traffic manager and
H. c. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the Manitoba road, Will return
from Chicago this morning.
II. P. Breed, superintendent and E. F.
Dodge, general passenger agent of the st.
Paul & Duluth road, returned yesterday
from the northern end of that line.
Col. Putnam of Eau Claire, accompan-
led by twenty-one lumbermen left the city
for Brainerd over the Northern Pacific last
night, to inspect the lumber resources of
that region.
Forest fires have been prevailing on the
Duluth road between Fond du Lacfstation
and Northern Pacific junction. The dam
ages thus far have been confined to the
destruction of the raw material.
The incoming trains on all the roads
were heavily laden on yesterday. About
$50 emigrants were among the arrivals, the
most of whom left last evening by the
Manitoba and Northern Pacific roads.
T. W. Teasdale, general passenger agent
of the Omaha line, has returned from Chi
cago. E. W. Winters, assistant president
and j. M. Whitman, superintendent of the
same corporation. have gone to Eau Claire.
Several agents of fast freight lines
loaded themselves down with fishing tackle
three kinds of pie, and other refreshments
and passed Decoration day at White Bear
lake. Beyond the fact that several of the
party came near being food for the fishes.
the records of their trip thither are silent.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific
land department of land in the eastern
division of that road including Minnesota,
Dakota and Yellowstone valley in Montana
for the month of May amounted to 44,915
acres, for a total of $174,OOO. About
$25, 900 were derived from the sale of town
lots during the same period in the same
division.
A rumor from good authority is in cir
culation that the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul company is about to extend the
Chippewa Valley division of their line
from the terminus in this city northward,
taking in a route by the several mills
above this city. The objective point is to
compete for share in the lumber trade
which is now being so eagerly sought for
by the Omaha and Wisconsin Central
companies.
A new map of Grand Harbor, on The
north side of DEVILS lake, is among the
latest accessions to the library of illus
trated railway display literary curiosities.
1t represents town in embryo, made up
of twenty-five squares, with total of 625
lots, fronting on streets and avenues. after
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containing park sites, building sites, resi-
dence sites and miscellaneous sites, and as
specimen of the surveyors and Iitho
graphers' art is sight to behold.
The Central Iowa road in connection
with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
has issued the following Joint tariff of
rates between Chicago, Eleanor. Little
York, Duly and Keithsburg, sto take effect
at once: First class, 81 cents; second. Al :
third, 80; fourth, % cents. Flour and
meal, % cents per barrel; salt, cement and
stucco, in lots of so pounds and over
30 cents per barrel; lumber, IL cents;
wheat, IA cents and other grains, - cts. per
cwt.; horses and mules S34 Is; cattle and
hogs $29.75 ana sheep $3.50 per car.
Glass A III Car loads of not less than ten
ton, 16 cents per cwt.; class B, IA cents:
class y, IL cents aud class d, 3 cents per
cwt. --.
the Southwestern railway association
the Colorado Traffic and Iowa Trunk line
associations have agreed that on and after
to-day tho rates established from time to
time ON horses, cattle, hogs and sheep
from Kansas City, st. 10, Atchison and
Leavenworrh to Mississippi river points
Chicago, Detroit and Toledo, will be con-
Eidered AS applying to cars of not less
than 2912 feet nor more than 3O15 feet ia
length, internal measurement. For cars
of 80 feet in length and over ten
per cent. additional will be charged. On
shipments from points beyond the Mis-
souri, river, on which through rates are
famed, the proportions accruing to the
,ssociated lines of such through rates will
be considered the established rates from
the Missouri river. reduction of three
and one-half per cent. from the
established rates may be made fol