Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-12
RAILROAD MUI'HBRLNGS.
INDICATIONS OF WAR BETWEEN
TRUNK LINES FROsf n. 7. VEST.

II al and River News Caught on the Fly
Eesterday-Change OF Office Hours Con
tempIated by the Northern Pacific Man
aaenent-The Boom at Grand HarbOr and
Vicinity-CrOp Reports from Points
the Manitoba ROad-CommodOre David
sons New Boat. st. Paul City-ArrivaI Of
the Minneapolis-TheL ibbie Conger Due
This N Orning-PersonaI.
Bat 100 emigrants arrived III st. Paul
yesterday from the east.
Col. Lamborn, land commissioner OF the
Northern Pacific, is in Chicago.
John Baker, of the Missouri Pacific, st.
Louis, arrived in the city yesterday.
j. A. Mann, assistant general freight
agent of the Grand Trunk road at Detroit,
is in the city.
T. W. Teasdale, general passenger agent
of the Omaha line, returned from Winni-
peg yesterday.
G. A. Williams, travelling passenger
agent of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Mil
waukee railway, is in the city again.
Forty car loads of cattle are at the Min
nesota transfer en- route to points in Mon
tana via the Northern Pacific road.
Gustavus Josephus Borup, agent of the
Great Western Despatch, left for Chicago
by the 1915 p. m. train on the River road
yesterday.
VIII. Prouty, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Indianapolis, Blooming
ton & Western road arrived from Indianap-
oils yesterday.
The Rock Island directors car, with
David Dows and family as passengers,
went east by the noon train on the River
road yesterday.
H. G. Davis, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Manitoba line, once more
stands upon his native heath in Wiscon
sin. He will return to st. Paul on Thurs
day.
S. E. Stohrs, contracting freight agent
of the Chicago & Northwestern road at
New York city, returned to ST. Paul yes
terday from fishing excursion to Elbow
lake
John Muir, superintendent of traffic of
the Oregon & Transcontinetal steamship
line, has been appointed to similar posi-
ton on the Oregon Il California Railroad
company.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad has
issued a special freight tariff from Mil
waukee to points in Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan, and insures all freights carried
across Lake Michigan.
]. A. Moore, general manager of the
Great Eastern line, Boston, accompanied
by J j. McNally, agent of the same line
at Winni peg, were callers at the offices OF
the Manitoba line on yesterday.
HI. p. Breed, superintendent of the Du-
luth road, E. W. Dodge, general passenger
and freight agent of the same road and w.
S. Alexander,gen traffic manager of the
Manitoba line, went to Duluth last night.
The sleeper milwaukee," an old cam
paigner in the service, was brought hither
from the east yesterday, to be put into
service on the Hastings & Dakota division
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road.
G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific, will probably leave
for Chicago tomorrow or Thursday, to at
tend the regular meeting of the Western
Passenger Agents association, which con-
venes Friday at the association rooms in
Rand & MsNally's building, No AS Mon
roe street.
G. S. Fee of the general managers Office,
Northern Pacific, received by express
from Mandan yesterday the head of
Rocky mountain goat, which is said by 20
illogical counofsseurs, to be the finest
specimen of the kind in st. Paul. ]. D.
Allen, a taxedermist of Mandan, donated
the gift.
From reports received at the emigrant
Office of the Manitoba line, there is large
increase in the acreage sown to wheat in
the country tribrtar to the towns of De-
lano, Brownsville, Everest, Mayville, Lari-
more, Kennedy, Grafton, St. Thomas and
Bathgate. From Litchfeld reports indi-
cate the acreage is the same as last year.
The distinguished looking citizen to be
daily observed on the steps of the Mer-
chants hotel, gazing with an air of intense
interest at objects passing the River road
ticket Office, is David Preston Frisbie, city
agent Of the Milwaukee & st. Paul road.
He has erected highly colored sign board
at his place of business, and delights to
watch its beauties, which improve in pro-
portion as they are seen from distance.
AS an indication OF the business that
may reasonably be expected to be done by
the Northern Pacific railway upon its
completion, representative of the road
said yesterday that twenty-three steam
ships running between San Francisco and
Portland have carried to the latter point
since January, 1852 passengers and
1,688 tons of freight. The greater por-
ton of this traffic would have gone over
the Northern Pacific had its line been in
operation.
The Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis s
Omaha railway has issued a special lumber
tariff from st. Paul, Minneapolis, Mime
sofa Transfer, Saltwater, Menominee, Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls to Omaha as
follows: From the first four points
named Is cents per cwt.; from Menom-
inee and Eau Claire, 20 cents and from
Chippewa Falls 81 cents per cwt. These
rates apply only on Omaha local business;
to points beyond the rates given in tariff
No. 40, of April 16, 1883, will be used
The headquarters of the transportation
systems of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, have been established at No. 271
Broadway, New York. The traffic interests