Daily globe., 1883-06-04
RAIL AND RIVER RIPPLES.

the Omaha ROad-The Rock Island Road
and the PoO1-MOVemen,s of individuals
Also of fStock-Emigrant Rates Between
Toronto and Winaipeg-Rfver Notes and
News.
Hugh Sherman, Jr., general travelling
passenger agent of the Union Pacific, was
in st. Paul yesterday.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Duluth
road for May, 1888, were $1O1, 1928,
against $83,582,O4 for the same month
1882.
George F. Lee, northwestern passenger
agent for the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, has been transferred from Chicago
to Detroit.
Hereafter orders of Northern Pacific
employees On paymasters for wages due
will not be approved eccept tor satisfac-
tory reasons.
j. II. Best, general passenger agent of
the st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern
road, slipped into the city so Quietly YES
terday that the railroad men GENERALLY
became aware OF his presence and pub
lished the fact.
j. B. Williams, assistant of the presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific, J. B. Barker.
general auditor, and Mr.. Ames, purchasing
agent of the road, with few friends will
arrive this morning by special car over
the famous Albert Lea route
The efete no9archies of Europe con
tributed seventy five emigrants to swell the
population of st. Paul yesterday. Most of
them tarried only long enough here, how
| fg Eboir
took fresh start for the Northwest.
A special car of the Canadian Pacific az
rived in the city yesterday morning with
! W. @. Van Horn, Lord Dunm0re and other
| high kickers in railroad and social circles
of the Dominion. The party left for the
East last evening by the Omaha line
The Missouri Pacific has issued a spe.
cial lumber tariff from Chicago, st. LOUIS
6 Hannibal to points in Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska. The tariff takes effect to-
morrow, is numbered special lumber
tariff No. -" and cancels tariff No. 189.
The Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe road
officially announces the completion of its
connections with points in Western Colo
rado, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Idaho
via Pueblo, and offers its services as a
common carrier to points in the above
named territories.
Twenty car loads of stock from Manka-
to for Miles City, and eighteen car loads
for Mcclellan formerly Kerths Station,
passed through the city yesterday to their
points of destination via the Northern Pa
cifc. This week 125 car loads will go west
over the same route.
A Chicago railway periodical under date
of May 80, proclaims that the Rock Island
road has not Withdrawn from the Iowa
pool as published in the daily papers of
recent date. The company gave notice of
its intention to strike off the pool shackies,
but subsequently withdrew its belhgereut
pronunclamento, and will not enter the
free-fOr-all as contemplated.
An agent having been appointed at La
toier, Ark, on the Crowley Ridge branch
of the ST. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern road, freight destined for that point
may now be received and forwarded with
out requiring prepayment. The same de-
cisiOn has also been rendered with refer
ence to freight destined for Springdale,
| Texas, on the Texas Il Pacific road.
Allen Mccoy having resigned as general
freight agent of the Southern division of
tho Missouri Pacific the duties OF W. H.
| Newman have been extended to include
the same. The Central division of that
road has been discontinued and the freight
traffic in the states of Texas and Louisiana
will hereafter be included in the Southern
division, with Office at Galveston, Texas.
E. Ryder having resigned the position
of superintendent of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road, the duties heretofore devolv-
ing upon him will be discharged by w.
H. Truesdale, vice president. Move
ments of parties and cars on First division.
Pacific division, and Cannon valley diYi-
sion will be directed by L. II. Hamilton
from Minneapolis; on the Second and
Third divisions by II. S. Holm from Fort
Dodge.
At meeting of general passenger
agents, of roads interested III the business
between Toronto and Canada, held re-
Gently at the Grand Pacific, Chicago. it
was agreed to make a reduction in emil
grant rates between Toronto and Winni-
peg. The new rate is $23 39O--a reduction
of $3.50 from the rate heretofore charged.
" was also agreed to allow the steamboat
line diferential rate of $6.4O between
the two points. Provision was also made
AOl IAiO sale VI IOuLlu tIlp lduO-GAD DlOTtuR
tickets between Toronto and Winnipeg.
The Fink brothers are all connected
with railroad interests. There are three
brothers-Albert, Henry and Rudolph.
They are Germans and engineers, and
their combined salaries exceed that paid
to any family in the United States. These
three brothers get about 100000 Albert
Fink has built some of the most import
ant railroad lines in the South. Henry
Fink is one of the largest Southern sys-
TENS. Rudolph Fink is building the
main line of railroads into Mexico for the
Boston men. These Finks are rigid, pre-
else, reticent, and men who never use two
words where one will do.
Tie city was rife with rumors yesterday
regarding washouts said to have occorred
on the Sioux City division of the Omaha
line. Report had it that the entire track
between Sioux City and Omaha had been
engulfed, and portions of the Nebraska
division had been hardly less seriously
dealt with. Enquiry elected the informa-
ton that washouts had taken place south
of Sioux City, and that the train due there
at Il O'Clock Friday night for ST. Paul had
not, up to last evening, arrived. The train