Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31
Railroad Notatlons.
From Fridays Daily.


Paul last night on an official visit. He
will prepare figures for the new time card
that will 60 into effect in month or six
weeks in all probability. The taking off
of any of these trains will not be done
until business gets lighter than it Is at
present
Supt. A. j. McCabe of the Great North
ern, surprised his friends here by sud-
denly dropping in upon them last night
from St. Paul. Mr.. McCabe is looking
we'll and feeling hearty and says that
hard work agrees with him. He will
spend day or so IN Jamestown, partly
oa business and partly on pleasure.
From Saturdays Daily.
Stutsman county now has another
trans continental railroad, the $40 and
Canadian Pacific having closed the gap
today at the boundary line.
The Mandan Times states that me-
chanic's lien has been filed against the
Northern Pacific by some men q! Steele
who furnished stone for rip-rap above
the Missouri river bridge. They claim
$17 AL due them.
Plans have been prepared for station
building at Sterling, the station at the
international boundary on the new 500
route. It is large building. some 120
feet long, with general and LADIES' wait
ing rooms, and customs offices attached.
Work on its construction is to be CON-
menced at once.
From Mondays Daily.
Supt. Wilson returned from st. Paul
yesterday, where he has been at'work on
new time card which goes into effect
next Sunday.
Stock is running very slowly for this
season of the year and much lighter than
last year. Dakota has not yet begun
to ship, most of that now going over the
road coming from Montana points and
passing through here in the day time.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Master Mechanic Bean will shortly
leave Fargo to accept q similar position
at Brsinerd, MINI. 1t is reported that
Travelling Engineer Goodman will be
given the appointment.
Travelling Agent Dalzell Of the North
ern Pacific, left for Darlington today to
transact business at that competitive
point, and talk over the politician situa.
ton with the Northern Pacific agent,
MISS Emma Poole.
From Weonesday'e DsiIv.
The sheriff OF Yellowstone county,
Montana, claims to be on the trail Of the
n. P. train robbers, and there are good
grounds for believing they will be cap
tured.
A force OF men have been at work dur
ing the past week erecting a new pump
house on the Northern Pacific, near the
round house at Edgeley-another of the
many improvements that company has
made in the Edgeley yards during the
past summer.
New wheat Is beginning to be moved
on the Northern Pacific system. Over 80
cars we're at Fargo last night. The ship
ments were all over the division. The
company does not expect the big rush of
other years, as the low prices will make
farmers market slowly.
Assistant Engineer Burgess and two
assistant engineers went west this morn
ing to Sunnyside, three miles west of
Mandan. to do little malntainance-of
way work on the track at that point.
The services OF the corps are constantly
IN demand by the road in improving and
maintaining the condition of the present
roadbed. One month they will be work
ing on some branch in Minnesota or Da-
kota, and the next they may be called
out to Montana to attend to some work
needing their immediate supervision.