Daily globe., 1883-05-29
TARIFF TINKERING.

Immense Freight List-The Keokuk Will
Arrive To-Day-Persona1.
j. j. Hill, president of the Manitoba
line returned yesterday from Montreal.
Harry G. Ives, assistant general mana
ger of the Manitoba line, is out on the
road to be absent several days.
S. K. Stateler, general travelling agent
of the Northern Pacific, returned from
trip across the continent yesterday.
But fifty emigrants arrived here yester-
day, and a majority of those who reached
st. Paul appeared to glad that they had
come.
j. M. Hannaford, general freight agent
of the Northern Pacific, left for Chicago
yesterday afternoon to attend the rate
meeting.
G. G. franklin, of the Lake Superior
Transit company, yesterday sold the first
ticket of the season to the East by the
| lake route.
White Brothers, of this city, receipted
for 43O head of sheep yesterday, which
came to them from Billings, NJ. T., via the
Northern Pacific.
B. II. Langley and w. II. Barron division
freight agents of the Milwaukee and ST..
Paul road at Winona and La Crosse, were
in the city yesterday.
Frank Ferris has been appointed COM
mercial freight and passenger agent of
the Missouri Pacific for the republic OF
Mexico, with headquarters at Laredo,
Texas.
Intelligence was received at the emigra-
tion department. of the Manitoba road
yesterday that 2,7O0 emigrants sailed from
European ports Saturday bound for New
York and Boston.
E. w. Winter, assistant president of the
Omaha line, reached here yesterday from
Chicago. General Passenger Agent Teas
dale, of the same road, has departed for
that wicked city.
S. F. Rohrer has succeeded g. F. Briggs
in the Office of general northwestern agent
Kimball of the Albert Lea route. Mr..
Briggs leaves this morning for Bozeman
in the capacity of ''prospector."
Railroad officials generally in st. Paul,
above the grade of clerks. are putting their
affairs in order and making preparations
ances, now in progress in Chicago.
A new basis for freight and passenger
rates between Canada and Manitoba was
agreed upon at Chicago yesterday, and
those who attended the meeting from st.
Paul will return home this morning.
W. A. Turner of the Manitoba road, is so
entirely occupied in providing excursion
fcfe {la &, oT
with tickets, that he is happy beyond ex-
preston and correspondingly communica-
tive of views.
D. L. Rose, who has been appointed
special agent of the Travellers Insurance
company, was canvassing employees of the
st. Paul & Duluth road yesterday for can
didates anxious to be insured against ac-
cident.
Rates on soft lumber, lath and shingles
from Chicago, st. Louis and Hannibal by
way of the Missouri Pacific system have
been amended as follows: To Hartford
and Emporia, Kas., from Chicago 80 cents
per cwt.; from st. Louis % cents and from
Hannibal "a cents. To Eldorado, Kas.
from Chicago, 3S, ST. Louis 81, and from
Hannibal 80 cents per cwt.
G. Tower, Jr., president, and Isaac P.
Beck, secretary, of the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad, in conformity to a resolu-
ton of its directors, filed yesterday with
the secretary of state three maps, drawn
upon single sheet, each on training mus
lin, executed by Richard Henry Lee, chief
engineer of said road, fixing the line of
said railway and accepted by the directors
as such by resolution.
The st. Louis, Ft. Scott & Wichita rail-
road having been extended to Towanda,
Kas., ten miles west of Eldorado. freights
may now be received and forwarded at
same rates as apply to and from Eldorado,
as per the following amended tariffs: No.
40 from st. Louis; No. III from Chicago;
No. 172 to st. Louis; No. 173 to Chicago;
No. 185 from Kansas City: No. 186 from
Leavenworth; No. 1877 from Atchison; No.
1873 from st. 10 and No. l89 from ST.
Louis.
A secret meeting of railroad men was
held in the Office of traffic manager Hiland
yesterday afternoon for purposes of q gen.
eral conference. The meeting was attend
ed by F. G. Broyden of the Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, j. Il. Hiland of the Omaha
line, E. F. Dodge of the st. Paul g.
Duluth road and j. A. Hanley. The subj
iect of discussion was the question o.
freight rates from st. Paul and Minneapo,
lis, east bound via Duluth and Chicago
but no changes are reported.
very handsome little pamphlet enti-
tied alexandria, the heart of the park re-
gion'' is furnished the public by II. G.
Davis, assistant passenger agent of the
Manitoba road. 1t furnishes full need
of information of that delightful resort,
bordering upo n chain of lakes in Doug
las county, this state, together with other
facts and figures regarding its advantages
for fishing, sporting, etc., and is an inval
liable addition to sources of information
in general way.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road company has issued a spicy little
volume of thirty two pages, containing its
through freight tariff from Chicago to
Kansas City,s st. Jo., Atchison, Leaven-
worth, Council Bluffs and Utah; also to
principal points in Missouri, Indian terri
tory. Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Its makeup,
is without the usual complement,o of maps