Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01
Rail Notes.

Al. G. Kimberly, superintendent of the
Minnesota division, Northern Pacific, is in
the city.
The Northern Pacific track was finished
to Gallatin, % miles west of Bozemau
Saturday.
The 1925 train yesterday afternoon
brought one car load of emigrants bound
for Duluth.
H. 9. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the Manitoba line, has returned
from Milwaukee.
Two car loads of soldiers ticketed for
Fort Smelling arrived by the river road al
1925 yesterday afternoon.
G. G. Hixon has sold his handsome and
powerful tow boat, Mountain Belle, to Nc
Donald Bros. of La Crosse.
j. L. Brisbin, general agent of the NORTH
western car and manufacturing COMPANY,
at Council Bluffs, is in the city.
81. E. Sargent, formerly general man
ager of the Northern Pacific, came in from
Chicago over the river road yesterday af-
ternoon.
Col. P. B. Groat, emigration agent of the
Northern Pacific, has gone to Chicago where
he will tarry for period of three days and
three nights.
The Northen Pacifc's highest trestle is
about twelve miles west of MissouIa, the
track level being 300 feet in the air. The
trestle is 2,400 feet in length.
Col Ethan Allen, from the Red river
valley, is in the city. He reports fine
weather there, and that on Saturday last
one farmer sowed 200 acres of wheat.
The regular monthly meeting of railway
superintendent for this section will occur
on Friday next at the union depot. The
fun will commence at o'clock in the after
noon.
Three coaches of passengers and twenty
seven car loads of stock from the East for
Manitoba, arrived by the River road yes
terday morning and left at 4 p. m. for Win
nipeg.
1t is reported that a new Pacific railroad,
with English capitalists behind it, has been
organized. 1t is to be called the United
States Central railroad, and will extend
from Denver to San Francisco.
John Knuppe, formerly land commits
sioner of the st. Paul g. Pacific road during
the receivership of j. P. Farley, has sue
ceeded j. T. Shapleigh, land agent of the
Manitoba line for the Crookston district.
Supplement No. 10 to tariff No. 1S1, taking
immediat effect on the Missouri Pacific
fixes the amended classification thereof as
follows: Rice, concentrated lye and potash
by car loads will hereafter be known under
class GA"
Sidney Dillon says, admitting the claim
of the government to a million dollars
from the Union Pacific company, which it
stoutly disputed, it owes the company for
carrying the mails more than enough to
balance the account.
According to rumor from Denver the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy company is
pushing a line from that city toward the
Pacific coast, under the guise of the Dem
yer, Utah & Pacific or of the Colorado
Railway company, new organization.
j. 81. Turner, secretary of the
Missouri Press association, is in the city
arranging for the excursion to st. Paul of
that organization, One hundred and fifty
''formulators of public opinion" will par
ticipate, and they will arrive here next
Friday week.
George R. Haggerty, superintendent of
the union depot dining hall, will be mar
ried on Thursday next, and after a ten
days trip to Milwaukee and Chicago, settle
down as Benedict. His many friends
wish him endless felicity through life, and
unite in the hope that all his cares may be
little ones.
One car load of blooded stock contain
ing eight horses valued at $4,000. shipped
by George Merryweather of Frankfort,
KY, and two car loods of blooded Merino
sheep from Vermont, passed through the