Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-10-12

the day was delivered by ex-Gov. Seldom
Conner. Hon. Hannibal Hamlin. Vice
President during Mr.. Lincoln administra-
ton, was among those in attendance.
AT Morris Park. N. Y, Ell Rio Rey de-
feated several fine horses for the Dunmow
stakes.
The Colorado Short Line filed articles
of incorporation at Denver, Col. The capt.
tai stock is S300OOOO0. and the route is
through western Colorado southern Utah.
and northern Nevada through California
to San Francisco, while branches will go
into southern California The directors are
Denver and Rio Grande mon, and the road
is intended to encroach on Union Pacific and
Santa Fe territory. The present terminus
of the Denver and Rio Grande is Salt Lake
City.
President Mackey of the air line Louis
vile, Evansville and St. Louis Road is now
making a personal investigation OF the
various roads now owned by him, making
the tour on foot. He started from Mount
Vernon to inspect the new connecting link
now being built from that place to Belle
vile. He will then go to st. Louis, and
from there return to Mount Vernon and
make the jaunt on the Evansville. This is
something never known before in the his
tory of railroads, and is Mackey's style. as
he personally investigates the working of
every branch of the line, and is without
doubt the hardest worker connected with
any railroad.
The following estimate of the wheat
supply in Minnesota and Dakota has been
prepared by Col. Rogers, OF the Minne-
apoIis Market Record:
There were in country elevators along the lines
of the railroads in Minnesota and Dakota Oct.
4,066 900 bushels of wheat in the houses Of ele-
vatOr companies having ten or more houses
each. There are several smaller companies
whose houses contain in the aggregate 100000
bushels There are in addition several hum
bred small warehouses and Independent ele-
vators carrying small quantities each, but in the
aggregate put by careful estimate at 300, 900
bushels making in store in country houses
1855 900 bushels Oct this year, against 2 759,-
0G0 bushels the same date last year. There were
in transit between shippers houses md Mime
apOls and Duluth what was estimated as three
days shipments, and one days business on
track in the yards making 2 ,S42 cars OF wheat,
or approximately 1500 600 bushels altogether in
transit which added to the stocks in country
elevators Oct. /. gives total wheat supply OF
6,06600O bushels i'll country elevators and III
railroad transit Oct /, against total in transit
and in country elevators October last year OF
6 912S $40 bushels.
Tho Auditor for the Postofllce Depart
ment has submitted to the Postmaster Gen.
eral statement showing the receipts and
expenses of the department for the quarter
ended March 81, 1889.
The gross receipts were S14SGS,s 1874, which 10
M increase OF 1928 ,65l, or &C plus per cent
over the previous quarter The total gross re-
1880 were Si2 3i1,9j3 which is -, 6GS2l1, or 81
plus per cent. over the gross receipts for the
first three quarters of the preceding year. The
expenditures of the three quarters covered by
this report were 1868 223. This Is 81, l50Y9,
or9.7 plus per cent. in excess of the expendi-
lures for the three quarters ended March Il,