The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-13
Railroad and Industrial Notes.

Newman Kline, superintendent OF the
Seattle * International, was In Sumas
yesterday.
]. w. Adams. travelling passenger agent
of the Chicago & Alton. was among yes
terGay's railroad visitors.
Frank Meyer. Of San Francisco. general
agent of the Chicago & Great Western,
was a Seattle visitor yesterday.
Amos Burr. travelling passenger agent
of the Vanderbilt lines. was visiting the
railroad Offices on the square yesterday.
L. II. Gray, general agent OF the Great
Northern freight department., returned
yesterday on the Umatiila from san Fran
cisco.
F. n. Kallock, of Portland. general
agent of the Pennsylvania lines, was
among the out-of-town railroad men IN
Seattle yesterday.
James Anderson. contracting freight
agent Of the Canadian Pacific, who Is up
the line of the Seattle x International,
viii return today.
II. c. Bush assistant general freight and
passenger agent OF the santa Re route,
with headquarters at san Francisco, was
In town yesterday.
T. w Parker. Seattle agent OF the
Northwestern road. who has been absent
for several weeks on a visit to Chicago,
returned yesterday afternoon.
Gen. j. II. Bryant, president of the Sc
attic & International. left in his private
car yesterday for trip TO Spokane. lie
Will be absent severai days.
Lincoln Brooks, late auditor OF Jeffer-
son county, who expects to make Seattle
his future home, was in the city yester-
day and left at noon for san Francisco.
The Pioneer Press. OF ST. Paul. January
9. says: Puget Sound Agent Parker. of
the Omaha, Seattle. Wash, was here yes
terday on his way home from a trip I'm
the East He says positive evidences are
seen in the Puget Sound country OF conf
dence restored and business energy re-
vived. He predicts great revival in the
West within the next two years. m which
Oriental traffic viii be a considerable fac
tor"
The private car OF VI. c. Kimberly. gem
eral superintendent OF the Northern Pa
cihc, which was in the yards Monday
evening, was taken by the regular ~ 4.
train 10 Tacoma Monday night. Yester-
day Mr.. Kimberly went TO Portland. With
him In his private car here were T. j. De
Lamere superintendent of transportation,
w. @. Pierce, general superintendent; Jo-
seph McCabe, superintendent OF the Pa
o.fc division. and c. :. Bihler, district en-
glneer. all officers OF the Northern Pacific.
Maj A. y. Alexander. attached 10 the
United states ilsh commission, whose long
stay In Seattle during the past summer
and fail has resulted IN the requirement
OF many friends as well as rare speci-
yesterday noon. Maj Alexander's move
ments subsequent 10 his arrival ia san
Francisco will depend upon orders. He
expects to 60 TO Washington in the near
future and later 20 ais home In CfiOuces-
ter. Mass. Mai Alexander will probably
return 10 Seattle in the nsh commission
steamer Albatross next spring.
The Northern Pacific Railway Company
yesterday purchased the CoBer a. Alena
Railway a. Navigation Companys prop
erty. which was sold at auction by X. =.
NJ. Richards, special master. The price
paid was yZZD,g0e II included the narrow
gauge railroad from Mission 70 Wallace
and the steamer Georgia cakes, which
piled between Mission and Couer a. AIene
CITY. Il was sold under a mortgage fore
closure held By the Central Trust Com
Dany. Of New York. under The direction Of
the United States circuit court for the
Ninth judicial district or Idaho. The
property Is better known as the Northern
Paeific.s Couer d'Alene branch.