The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
KANSAS RAILROAD NOTES.

c. r. Greene, agent of the Rock ISL
and at Canton. is on a two weeks leave
of absence. George Rice is acting as
agent at Canton during his absence.
F. S. Greene, day operator at Herring
ton, is taking a couple of weeks off and
is down in Mcpherson county visiting
his folkSH
Monday evening a heavy wind storm
struck Durham and Waldeck. The
school building was moved from its
foundation at Waldeck and at Durham
store building was blown out into the
street. A heavy hail storm accom-
panied the wind and much damage was
done by it. Twenty-Five window lights
were broken out of. the Rock Island
depot at Waldeck.
Lon Parscal is having the measles
for the third successful time. Fred
Vaught has charge of the stationary
engine in his absence.-El Dorado Re
publican.
The foundation of the new Hutchin-
son & Southern depot is being rapidly
built and work on the erection of the
depot itself will be under way in a
very few days.
Conductor George Walker of the
Hutchinson & Southern is laying off.
His family is down with the measles.
The Rock Island is handling an i'm
mense amount of stock, mostly cattle
from the southwest.
Fifteen cars of stock were fed and
watered in the yards here yesterday.
The stock was on its way to Garden
City. Forty-twO cars will be loaded
here this evening and shipped on to
Garden City. Three trains of cattle
passed through today en- route from
Fort Worth, Tex, to Lakin. The stock
is nearly all Texas cattle and is being
shipped to western Kansas to feed
through the summer. - Hutchinson
News.
The trainmaster's office was moved
yesterday afternoon to its new quarters
in the Clark House, on the third floor,
just above the diSpatcher'S room. 1t is
rDF nr1in TN1n fnr. Nv SoJI
ders and his right bower, Guy Truitt.-
Newton KanSan.
Fireman Paul Edwards has returned
from Topeka and will be given a run
out of Argentine, while Bruce Jackson
has been transferred to a run out of
Topeka.-Argentine Republic.
Engineers Hobart and Williams and
F'iremen Clevenger and Tennyson of the
Santa Fe have returned from yelling
ton to Argentine, where they were sent
for temporary service.
Engineers E. ]. Mason, E. c. Webb
and A B. Thompson of the Santa Fe
have been transferred to Las Vegas,
N. M, for temporary service.
Operator Nesbit of Attica came in
last night to relieve Operator Laird at
the freight depot, who is taking a lay
off. Laird will leave this evening for
the east on a visit to relatives.-Wel-
lingtOn Journal
The investigation of an Emporia
train crew was held in the trainmas-
ter's office yesterday by the yelling
ton officials. The engineer and con
ductor of the crew had left the head
brakeman and hind brakeman at Belle
Plaine.
The Santa Fe's Oriental business is
keeping up to the notch. A train of
fourteen cars of bonded merchandise
mostly silks from Asia, passed through
Sunday noon, billed from Portland Ore.
to Chicago Eleven cars of oil went
west Monday for export to Asia
Hutchinson News.
Conductor I. w. Rees has been rein
stated in the employ of the Santa F'e
company and went out this morning on
train 33, the first time in several weeks
Mr.. Rees has friends from one end of
the system to the other who will be
glad to know he has adjusted his diff
Guilty with the Santa Fe and is again
one of them.-Newton Kansan.
BOilermaker John Eckburg says he
has a pear tree at his home that beats
anything he ever heard of. 1t was set
out this spring and bloomed when all
good pear trees are supposed to bloom
and a dozen or more pears appeared on
the tree Now it has gone to blooming
again, and John looks for a second crop