The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-09
RAILWAY NOTES.

The annual meeting ofelhe Northern Paci-
hc company will be held in New York
Wednesday.
General Superintendent Harding. Of the
Great Northern returned yesterday from an
inspection trip.
a. H. Carey. of Milwaukee, master in
chancery in the Northern Pacific rece.vership,
Is in the city attending to unsettled claims.
The city ticket agents Of this city and
Minneapolis, viii leave for the Omaha ex-
position on Friday next. as the guests Of the
Omaha road. They will remain in Omaha I'M
til Monday.
tanning the programme for the Chautanaua
assembly at Chetek lake, Wis, which Is to be
held July Is to 24
The Omaha has arrenged to run an excur-
sion train to Camp Douglass, Wis, where the
Fourth Wisconsin, regiment is encamped, next
Sunday.
The Western Passenger association yester-
day announced seven days limit on tickets
sold on account of Minnesota day at the
Omaha exposition, July 20. This will give
all who wish to attend the fair ON that &C.
casion a full week to view the exposition
President Mellen, of the Northern Pacific,
has notified several officials Of the road that
he would return from Yellowstone park on
Monday.
General Freight Agent Somers. of the Great
Northern, viii return from his Western trip
today. Ff
Officials of the Chicago Great Western re-
port that harvesting has commenced along
There Is, in fact. scarcity Of farm labor
and skillful men can make gtod wages The
scarcity Of laberers is !ascribed to the de-
mand for soldiers which has turned men into
the military paths Unsteady Of the harvest
field. is Z; ~
The st. Paul & Duluth passenger depart
ment is arranging for a number of excur-
of the Church of the Good Shepherd will 10
to Lake Shore July 16; the Sunday school of
the First Lutheran church is billed for Lake
Ninnptnnka thoo oil -
the Woodmen of the Worlds will be held at
Forest lake July "a, and the Normanna Lii
trary society, of st. Paul, will have picnic
at Forest lake Aug 7. ,.~,9
The Chicago, Milwaukee, ST. Paul G. Omaha.
last evening, furnished two extra day coaches
to transport the enlisted menI for the Second
regiment, Y. S. A. engineers, who went to
Fort Sheridan. %--f7
General Freight Agent Pearce. Of the Oma-
ha road, returned from Chicago yesterday.
R. P. Ober, assistant general freight agent
Of the Northern Pacific, was appointed gen
ernl agent Of the refrigerator car service and
truit car traffic of the Montana Unan rail-
way, and w. NJ. Tuohy was appointed gem
eral agent Of the same road with headq1ar-
tiers at Butte
Work on the changes in the union depot is
beginning to advance The telegraph office
was removed yesterday from the stairway to
the platform in the rear Of the building be
eide the Milwaukee track. The stairway Is
being torn down and in few days passen-
gers will have a lively sense of the i'm
proVementS under way. =a,
The Northern Pacific overland, yesterday,
carried an extra Pullman tourist car to ac-
commodate the demands offtragels sso:ss-r
The Great Northern has issued an Illus
trated bulletin descriptive of Montana It is.
in fact a cyclopedia of d. the state, ana
contains every variety Of information as to
soil, climate crops, farm lands and stock
raising, mines and every other branch Of
industry to be followed within its borders
It is predicted that the Central Coal and
Coke company, of Ohio, will soon go to
pieces. 1t is composed of the Ohio coal
roads, and was formed to maintain coal
rates in Ohio, yet some of them are haul
ing West Virginia coal past the Ohio coal
fields for 20 cents a ton less than they take
their own coal.
=, All railroad companies doing business in
lines on pay day instead OF paying their en-
ployes by check. In this way the COM
panies will evade the payment Of one cent
revenue tax on each check they would other
wise have to draw.
Gen. Thomas p Wilson and oliver W.
Mink, successory receivers of the Union Pa
cific, are winding up their railroad affairs
preparatory to turning the road branch lines
over to the new company. which Is soon to
take hold Of the property. Mr.. Mink says
he will not return to the railroad in an Of
fetal capacity when his receivership is ended
The Burlington road will put additional
trains in service between Omaha and Hast
ings Monday. t5}ao
The ticket scalpers in Omaha have dis.
which were believed to afford them no such
opportunity. The railway officials there are
going to fight the scalpers. The matter Will
be watched with interest in this city. II
there is scaping of the tickets in st. Paul
the agents have not detected it yet.