Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22


General.
The new Northern Pacific time table goes
into effect to-day.
W. G. Turner, of the Manitoba line, went
up to Fargo last night.
R. j. Williams, of the Ohio & Mississip-
pi, is in the city on business connected
with that road.
A fast train from Cincinnati to New
York on the Erie road will be put on May
3, shortening the time seven hours.
! land slide at Buntley's bluff on the
Yellowstone division of the Northern
Pacific. detained trans at that point yes
terday.
THE nimble penny has succeeded ''the
beautiful maid from Milwaukee" in the
vernacular Of railroad men in the city,
since yesterday.
Three slight washouts on the Hastings
and Dakota division of the Milwaukee &
ST. Paul road occasioned q slight detention
TO trains yesterday.
4 train Of nineteen cars laden with cat
tie Tor Keith Montana, came in by the
Omaha line yesterday, and went west by
the Northern Pacific.
The Denver and California Short Line
Railroad company fled a certificate of in
corporation last week at Denver. The
capital is $l0,0G0,000.
During the past week there were four
hundred car loads of em1grant's movables
passed over the Northern Pacific for
Montana and Dakota.
The general freight agents for the east
bound roads yesterday made q reduction
of five cents per hundred on eighth class
freight. This class covers grain, four,malt,
hogs, etc.
W. Il. Dixon, general Northwestern pas
senger agent of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis s Omaha road, returned yes
terday morning from a business trip to
Chicago.
A special came in from Montreal yester
day, made up of ten cars, and containing
an aggregate of three hundred emigrants
who left for Winnipeg over the Manitoba
line last night.
The blockade of immigrant outfit trains
on the Pierre line of the Northern Pacific
roads most remarkable. Passenger trains
are obliged to run of at every side track
to permit them to pass.
Through travel over the Northern Pacific
will be inaugurated this month by daily
line of six-horse coaches, which will &C
complish the 300 miles between the two
ends in forty-eight hours.
Ii is officially denied that the Union
Pacific railway will be debarred from pay
ing interest on its bonds or declaring a
dividend until certain legal decisions are
given on the Thurman bill.
The Fergus Falls division of the Mani
toba line was four hours late and the
Breckenridge accommodation five hours
late, yesterday morning. The Northern
Pacific was two hours late.
The Cincinnati, New Orleans Texas
Pacific road, operating the Cinci9nati
Southern railway, has established a line
for freight and passenger traffic between
Louisville, Ky, and Chattanooga, Tenn.
An exciting railroad race will soon take
place il Florida. AS the law now stands
the first railroad that is built to Tampa
will get the lands granted, and at least five
different managers are making prepare
tons to come in ahead.
ter of the Wabash men is not yet finished
1t is predicted that when the circus begins
again the first to go will be the friends o.
John G. Gault and George H. Daniels
This can be set down as official, but why
this should be is not so plain.
The rumor that the Burlington 81 Quinc.
has notified the Rock Island that tn
portion of the Burlington & Cedar Rapid
road from Cedar Rapids to West Liberty
must be surrendered May l, is denied, TO
the reason that the road is so under tn
control of the Rock Island as to be beyonC
the power of any other company to dictate
as to its use.
The new Kansas railroad commission il
charged with general supervision of al
railroads IN the state operated by steam
and all express companies, sleeping ca
companies and all other persons, compa
MES or corporations doing business a
common carriers 1t has absolute powe
to fix freight rates. Kansas has taken
long step towards the solution Of the rail
road problem.
The railroad companies charge 60 Pc
cent. higher rates for carrying dresse
meats from Chicago eastward than fo
carrying i've SVOch, Dut IhlS oIScT1mIudllO
has not proved sufficiently discouraging
Mt a stop to the dressed meat traffic.
I'll not be many days before the railroad
VIII no longer attempt to interfere wit
what appears to be a legitimate change
the method of supply and transportation
The following were elected officers o
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe roa'
Thursday, at meeting of the directory il
Topeka: W. B. Strong, president; A. E
Touzaler, vice president; G. G. Wheeler
general manager; Edward Wilder, secre
tary and treasurer; George L. Goodwin, as
sistant secretary and treasurer; S. L
Thorndyke, com ptroller; John P. White
head, general auditor; J. F. Goddard, gen
eral traffic manager; H. g. Clements, aud
itor; A. S. Johnson, land commissioner; A
B. Robinson, chief engineer.
Freight-men evidently are to be mad
to understand hereafter that signing pool
ing agreements is looked upon by the ex
ecutive committee of the trunk lines a
meaning something. To this end, the eZ
ecutive committee have placed the Peoria
Decatur 81 Evansville upon the black lis