The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-17
RAILROAD NOTES.

r. c. NichoI. general agent of the Dem
yer & Rio Grande at Chicago, was in st.
Paul yesterday.
The state railroad and warehouse COM
mission will today hold a hearing on the
complaint of Martin Bros as to the rates
by the Northern Wisconsin railway, a
logging road in st. Louis county controlled
by the Brooks Scanlon Lumber company.
The complainantS claim that the Brooks
Scanion company has increased the rates
within the past six months to such an
extent as to drive all competitors along
that line of road out of business.
j. j. Frey, for several years general
manager of the Santa Fe and prior to
that general superintendent of the M. K.
4 T. railway who has been belfast for
two weeks, is today pronounced critically
i'll with ura emic poisoning.
Twenty seven new bills of complaint
were filed in the United States circuit
court at Grand Rapids, Mich, yesterday
roads of Michigan to restrain Auditor
General p. F. Powers from collecting the
differences in taxes between the old speci-
fic tax and new ad valorem tax. They
are substitutes for bills heretofore with
drawn
Notice has been received that the new
Mankato line of the Milwaukee road will
not be open for business for six weeks tC
two months. The depot at Mankato has
not been completed and thus the delay.
Plans for the imemnse railroad shops
to be erected by the Burlington at North
La Crosse have been completed. The
improvements as contemplated will cost
several hundred thousand dollars.
The formation of a railroad line $500
miles, extending from Quebec to Fort
Simpson, on the Pacific ocean and with a
capital of SIS, 900, 600. is now assured ac
cording to the statement of Sir Charles
Rivers Wilson, president of the Grand
Trunk road.
1t is said by Henry Bush. agent of
Canadian
next move of the company in the Orient
will be the establishment of fleet of
steamers running between the treaty
ports and the principal points along the
coast, acting as feeders for the Empress
line. It is expected that these steamers
will do a lucrative local business.
Grand Trunk officials in New York, who
however, do not permit their names to be
used, deny the report that the company
has purchased the Toledo, ST. Louis &
Western.
General Advertising Agent Griffith. of
the Burlington, was in ST. Paul yesterday.
Application has been made to the New
York stock exchange to list 1878, $50 addi-
tional capital stock of the Pennsylvania,
also 81, Ole, 400 additional guaranteed spe-
cial stock of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne
& Chicago.
E. A. Thompson, general freight and
passenger agent of the Barry Steamboat
line, has resigned. His successor has not
been appointed
The steamer Breakwater, which arrived
yesterday at New Orleans, has brought
news from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, that
the Honduras government has confiscated
the railroad running from Puerto Cortez
to San Pedro, a distance of fifty-eight
miles, which is owned by the Honduras
which Senator Chauncey M Depew, of
New York, is president and Henry L.
Sprague is vice president
States Attorney General Blair. Of Mich
igan, yesterday entered a motion in the
Wayne circuit court that the Michigan
Central be nonsuited in it's case against
the state for $6000,0 900 damages because
or that an order be made fixing an early
date on which the railroad shall file a
bill of particulars in support of it's claim.
Judge Brooke set the hearings on the
motion for June q.