Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-31
HOME SEEKERS.
Business Of the Railroads at st. Fenl
Carrying Settlers Into the State Z.
North Dakota.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press says:
~Land-seekers and settlers traffic
kept the railroads hustling yesterday.
and it appeared for II time that the en-
tire population of several eastern
states was migrating west. At the
union depot there were immense
crowds of e%Xcursionists, I'LL frying to
get the first trains going west. The
morning train for the coast-NO. l of
the Northern Pacitic-carried fourteen
ears of passengers and baggage. all
that the engine could haul. and there
vas fully a carload left on the plat
form. 1t has been Il long time since
the Northern Pacific has been obliged
to refuse to carry passengers because
of its overcrowded train. but this was
the case with this train. There was
III Oom for more. The regular train.
No. $. with three additional coaches.
pulled out i'll the evening similarly
crowded. and IL second section. con-
tanning ten cars. followed the first sec
ton half an hour later. Nearly all
the passengers We're bound for the far
west. one party of eiglty-tlree heing
ticketcd to Washington. They were
from Michigan. Hereafter these en-
c%ursiOnists will he sent out daily under.
the half-fare rate. which goes into CT
feet today, and the traffic will no, lie
SO cOngested as it was Yesterday and
the day previous.
The Great Northern trains were
equally as crowded. The morning
train for the west carried three extra
coaches out of st. Paul. while the reg
ular night train also carried three ex-
ira coaches. This train was followed
by a second section of fourteen cars.
carrying passengers for Montana.
Washington and Oregon. The 500
also left the union depot with extra
coaches conveying passengers to the
Pacific coast.
Today the advance movement of the
Dunkards will begin over the Great
Northern. This party is from Mich
igan, crossing the lake to ManitOwoc,
where they will he taken by the Wis
consin Central and brough to st. Paul.
Another influx of German Baptists
will arrive today from Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Iowa, and three
special trains will be required to carry
them to their new homes in North Du-
kota. There will he about five hun
dred and fifty in this party. and their
AlotLSCIOiN CAicClS VIII require between
forty and fifty freight cars. Next
Wednesday there will arrive about two
thousand more cOlonists bound for
North Dakota. They are coming
from West Virginia, Virginia. Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. and
the transportation Of these people. to-
gether with their effects. will keep the
Great Northern busy for several DAYS,
although that road is prepared to send
out four or five extra trains each day,
These people are not mere excursion.
lists, but are going west to make homes
o themselves and develop the coun-
try. They have agents ahead of them
and on the reports thus obtained have
decided that North Dakota is just the
country they are looking for. Inquiry
among the leaders of the bunker
movement shows that they are nearly
all in comfortable circumstances, the
majority being practical farmers. The
Northern Pacific is also gathering q
party Of Dunkers, who will congre.
gate at Chicago to day and so to North
Dakota tomorrow. They are bring
ing with them live stock, farming i'm,
plements and household effects, and
are prepared to commence operations
in their new home without delay.