Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-25
A BETTER SERVICE
Northern Pacific Will Put on
More Passenger Trains
FROM ST. PAUL TO BUTTE
Mail Contracts Are Said to be Par
TALLY Responsible For the In
creased Service.
FROM ST. PAUL TO BUTTE

! From semi-oficial sources comes the
intelligence that the Northern Pacllc,
! ever enterprising when dealing with its
| western patrons, will shortly inaugurate
a double daily passenger service between
! st. Paul, Butte and Portland. No official
announcement has been made concerning
the proposed increase of service but II
is said to be practically settled and the
Inter Mountains informant asserts that
the additional trains will be put on two
weeks from tomorrow.
1t has been known in Butte for some
time that the St. Paul officials of the road
contemplated a betterment of its west
ern service, but it was not anticipated
that the looked for change would come
about so soon, and a prominent railroad
man in this city says the increase is due
to growing business of the west, and re-
cent awards of mail contracts to the road.
With the increased service will come
increased speed and it is said that the
company proposes to shorten the time be-
tween St. Paul and Butte seven hours.
Trains Nos. / and . will run via Helena
while Nos. 3 and 4 will come west via
Butte. At the same time Butte will have
! connection at Logan and Garrison with
Nos. / and 2-the Helena trains-which
will practically give Butte four Northern
Pacific trains daily.
The schedule will probably be as fol-
lows: No. l will leave ST. Paul about 8
o'clock a. M. arriving in Butte the fol-
lowing evening at sos o'clock. No. 8 will
leave ST. Paul about 4:30 o'clock p. M,
reaching Butte the second morning at
about 1925 o'clock a. m. The connecting
train from No. 2, from Portland, will ar
rive in Butte about 10 o'clock p. m, the
connection leaving Butte about 9:15
o'clock p. m for Logan. No. 4, from
Portland, will pass through Butte about
1:45 o'clock p. m.
1t is understood that the Northern Pa
citic has been remodeling its equipment,
particularly its sleeping cars, and in the
near future all trains will be wide-vesti-
buled, and that in many other ways the
service will be bettered.
President James J. Hill of the Great
Northern railway and John F. Stevens,
the chief engineer of the Great Northern
during the early days, held a confer
ence at Spokane yesterday and it is be-
lieved that the subject of the conference
was the building of a railway to Re-
public camp, in Washington. The SpO-
kane Review of yesterday says:
John F. Stevens now makes his head
quarters at Robson, b. c., where he is
looking otter the interests of Foley
Brothers, the large contractors now
building the Columbia & Western extern
sion of the Canadian Pacific. In recent
weeks he has paid several mysterious
visits to Spokane, and has made numer-
Gus quiet inquiries about the reservation
country. Yesterday he was in the city
but he did not register at a hotel MOI
did he keep in public view. He wore
seedy old clothes and a flannel shirt tina
had seen better days. and was dodgin&
private conversations. He received, how
ever, a telegram from Mr.. Hill during tn,
day, making an appointment to see hin
today.
There is another man in Spokane VIII,
wants to see Mr.. Hill today in regard t.
the Republic road, and hat is ex-Lieu
tenant Governor Luce Of Davenport. MI
Luce has learned that it is the intention
of Mr.. Hill to build to Republic and h
fears a route from the line Of the S. F. (
N. will be taken. Mr.. Luce wants NJ
Hill to take the route from the Big Ben
country named in the charter Mr.. Hill
associates have purchased from Spokan
men for the San Poll railway, and t
start the road from Davenport. NJ
Luce will see Mr.. Hill this morning j
this regard.
IL The presence Of parties Of Gree
Northern surveyors in Cedar canyon run