Daily globe., 1883-05-26
ALONG THE ROADS.

tinue to Come West-Personal and Par
ticular Points of Interest.
E. W. Winter, assistant president of the
Omaha line, has gone to Chicago.
Hereafter the Office hours at headquar-
ters of the Omaha line will be from 8 a. m.
to $50 pm.
The total number of emigrants who ar
rived in the city yesterday was estimated
at 500, all of whom left during the day for
points west of st. Paul.
w. G. Andrus, general passenger agent
of the Montreal & Boston Air line, having
his office located at Nos. 95 and 81 Wash
ington street, Chicago, was in the city yes
terday.
General Manager Marvel of the Mani
toba line has receiveda petition from the
citizens of Elizabeth, Mimi, praying that
the track from that place to Carlisle be
kept open for business.
The Omaha line has issued a new map
describing its route and connections,
which is universally decided to be "a huge
affair."" 1t is said to be a production of
the traffic department of the road.
Col. Lamborn, who has been expected
IN st. Paul for the past three days, has not
yet arrived. Amid the doubts regarding
his whereabouts, when he will be here, ETC.,
there's one thing certain, he's coming.
G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific, disappeared yes
terday in the direction of Grand Forks.
His departure was not entirely unexpected,
and his return is fixed for tomorrow morn
ing.
A meeting of the representatives of the
passenger departments of all the Canadian
and Northwestern lines, except the Cana
dian Pacific, will be held in Chicago, May
80 to agree upon new first class and emil
grant rates.
The Illinois Central has made the fol-
lowing rates on upper Mississippi busi-
ness: First-class, so cents; second, SO
cents; third, 50 cents; fourth, 81 cents
fifth. Is cents. Glass, A, % cents; B, 1715
cents; wheat and -four 1712 cents. The
difference in the rates by rail is from ten
to twenty per cent.
P. II. Kelly has received letter from
Rufus Hatch, stating that about August 1,
when the Yellowstone park hotel has been
completed, party of sixty prominent
journalists, scientists and fnanciers of
Europe and the East will visit the park by
the invitation of Willard, and will be the
guests of st. Paul for few days.
Oliver Wriswall, agent of the st. Paul
& Duluth road at Cottage Park, was at
tackled with hemorrhage yesterday which
left him in a condition of health consider
ably demoralized. He was attended by
physicians Immediately after his condition
became known, and at last accounts was
rapidly approaching the perfection of
good health.
S. K. Simpson, superintendent of the
Northwestern car works at Saltwater, was
in the city yesterday, visiting his former
railroad confreres. He says that he is at
present too pleasantly occupied to think
of returning to the railway service, in di-
recting the labors of about 1900 men. The
works now turn out twelve freight cars
complete per diem, and about September
the manufacture of passenger coaches
will be commenced.
J. S. Dickerson, of Bozeman, arrived
here yesterday. He states that the North
ern Pacific is completed to Bedford,
thirty two miles from Helena, and that the
latter point will be reached within two or
three weeks. Emigration to that section
of Montana is but just setting in, and from
present appearances there will be rush
thither before summer. BoZeman, he says,
is building up rapidly, and before fall will
be one of the handsomest cities on the line
of the Northern Pacific. He leaves 1oc
Chicago to-day, to be absent week.
The general passenger agents of the
roads running west from Chicago and st.
Louis, intended to hold meeting in the
former city Wednesday, for the purpose of
acting upon the request of number of
merchants to modify the new baggage
agreement, as it is working great hardships
to the merchants; also to further consider
the advisability of making different rates
between Chicago or st. Louis and Missouri
river points. Owing to the inability of
some of the general passenger agents to
attend this meeting, it was postponed IN
til next Tuesday.
From crop reports received by A. E..
johnson of the Manitoba road the follow
ing is taken: At Grafton, D. T., wheat is
about all sown, and double as much as last
year. The crops look well and prospects
good; at Ada, the prospect for good crops
of all kinds was never better; the acreage
sown to wheat is one-fourth greater than
last year; at Grand Forks crop prospects
are better than last year, and the acreage
sown considerably in advance of previous
seasons; at st. Vincent wheat is coming up
splendidly with every indication of good
crop; acreage sown one-third greater
than last year; seeding is nearly finished at
Warner and Stephen and the grass coming
up nicely. Robert Fairweather, of Argyle,
Marshall county, Mimi, who has $500
acres in crop this season was in the city
yesterday and reports that crops in his
section look uniformly we'll. He has
wheat sown April IL that stands five inches
high, and that sown later already in sight.
Recent rains have given the crops there
fine start.
The RiUer.
The river opposite st. Paul fell one inch