St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-08
Rail Notes.

NJ B. Williams, of the st. Paul & Manitoba
road, has gone to St. Louis.
FB. Clark, of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha road, has returned from Chicago.
Judge Chandler was rather better yester-
day and is expected to be out in day or
two.
c. II. Warren, general ticket agent of the
st. Paul & Manitoba road, has gone to Chi
cago.
H. s. Hughes, travelling passenger agent Of
the st. Paul road, with headquarters at
Waukesha, Wis, is in st. Paul.
The Illinois Central announces that the
road will carry seed corn free of charge to
and from any point along its line.
w. B. Wheeler, northwestern passenger
agent of the Royal Route, has just returned
to st. Paul from trip to st. Louis.
w. F. Carson, assistant to A. D. Charlton,
general western passenger agent at Portland,
passed through St. Paul yesterday for Port
land.
Commissioner Fink announces that the
rate on unmanufactured tobacco fir ON Chi
cago to Albany will be 81 cents per 100
pounds, instead of 32L cents as published in
the last tariff.
The car containing donations from Walla
Walla and vicinity, on the Northern Pacific,
will leave to-day, and on arriving at st. Paul
will be taken over the Royal Route to Chica-
go and thence to New Albany, Indiana.
The Joint Agent of the st. Louis east
bound pool gives notice that rates to Parkers-
burg and Bellaire will be the same as to
Buffalo, N. Y, and Pttsburg, Pa, and the
published rates to the above points are not to
be used hereafter.
Commissioner E. P. Vining, Of the West
ern Trunk Line association, has just issued
new joint coal tariff from Chicago, Mil
waukee, Toledo, Detroit, Peoria, St. Louis,
and other points to Council Bluffs, Omaha,
and points on the Union Pacific railway in
Nebraska as far west as North Platte.
Mr.. James Ross, the superintendent of
construction of the western division of the
Canadian Pacific road, has been in st. Paul
for the past two days letting contracts for
grading and other work on that part of the
road. He left last week for Winnipeg, hav-
ing closed out most of the heavy work to
Phillip Brady, of Montana, one of the princi-
pal contractors on the Northern Pacific, and
J. B. Hutsell, Of this city.
The Des Moines and Sioux City railroad
company has changed its title to the Des
Moines and Dakota. E. G. Kinney, in
private letter to Sioux City man, states the
reasons for the change Of name, and out
lines the plans of the company. He says:
cat last we have fully completed our organi-
cation as railway company, and have filed
our articles of incorporation. As you see we
have changed the name of the company to
cover the line through to Bismarck without
frightening it. 1 started the first party over
the line yesterday, the Sd inst They ought
to reach your place within forty days, though
the weather and rough country will have a
good deal to do with it."
The st. Paul & Manitoba road has issued
tariff ON emigrant movables. Car loads of
emigrant movables may contain mixed lots
of household goods, second hand farm
machinery, second hand wagons, ten head
or less of live stock, trees, shrubbery, fifty
bushels grain for seeding purposes, sufficient
feed for use of the animals in transit, lumber
not to exceed 2, 500 feet, fence posts not to
exceed 500, or a portable house. Groceries,
provisions, hardware and other articles will
not be taken at emigrant rates. EN- igrant
movables i'll less than car loads will be con-
strued to mean household goods, second
hand farm machinery and second hand
wagons and should be plainly marked. One
man will be passed free with the car if it
contains live stock, in which case the agent
will issue the usual live stock contract.