The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-15
RAILROAD NOTES.

The new air plant at the shops In AL
buquerque has finally been completed.
A new mail crane has been erected
at AlgOdOnes on the right hand or east
side of the track.
Passenger Conductors Dick Hays and
Charley Stevenson are taking a lay-off
and have gone to the Jemez Hot
Springs near Albuquerque.
Engines 928 and 929 were sent to Ra-
ton today and will hereafter be used
on the western division.
Agent +. B. Strong at Springer has
secured a thirty-days' lay-off. His
place is being filled by S. w. Quick, for
merly night operator at Lamy.
A large, powerful planning machine
has been added to the equipment of the
wood working department of the Albu-
querque shops. 1t planes four sides of
a timber at one run.
A deal has been completed whereby
the city of Trinidad will pay SO, $50 and
the Santa Fe company on it's part will
put an additional $4,000 into fine new
depot and establish an $4,000 park
A test of the patent elevator design
ed for loading cars was made at the
shops in Albuquerque. Seventy-six car
wheels, each weighing 500 pounds, were
loaded in twenty-five minutes and forty
seconds by one man.
W. r. Ripley, telegraph operator, has
been changed from GlOrieta to Lamy,
Richard Williams goes from Rowe to
GlOrieta, while L. T. Barton, who was
stationed for eight years at Newton,
Kan, goes temporarily to Rowe. Mr..
Barton has been at the Las Vegas hos
pital for month past and if his health
will permit he Will be given the position
at Rowe permanently.
Benjamin F. West has been appointed
roadmaster of the Santa F'e from La
Junta to Canon City, with headquar-
tiers at Pueblo. Roadmaster Daniel Orr,
of Pueblo who has hitherto had juris-
dictiOn over this line of road, will con-
fine his attention to the line between
Pueblo and Denver.
TOiXGOn W
employed for a number of years at the
Missouri Pacific shops at Fort Scott,
has been advanced to a better position
at COffeyvile and has gone there to
accept it.
c. D. Wright, Union Pacific station
agent for Junction City for the past
eight years resigned toGay 10 accept
the position of freight solicitor in Chi
cago for the same road. Mr.. Wright
has been a great success. G. W. Mills
of Ellis gets Mr. Wright's place.
The Santa Fe is putting in new steel
between Halstead and Newton
The new Santa Fe resident engineer,
at Wellington, H PurdOn, of Fort Mad
ison, Ia, has arrived. He will move his
family to Wellington as soon as he can
secure a suitable house. Mr.. Purdon is
a brother of the chief engineer of the
Santa Fe.
The Silver City independent says that
Superintendent Hurley while in that
place on Thursday of last week, care
fully looked over the ground at the
southern end of the city, having in mind
the erection of the depot and yards
there instead of where now situated
T. H. Jones, agent at Beloit, win sue
coed NJ. b. Fulton as agent of the Union
Pacific at Abilene. Julian Nance, form
erly of Abilene but now at Minneapolis
will be agent at Beloit.
Miss Cora gladden.. daughter of En-
gineer Joe gladden., of the Union Pacific,
between Solomon and Beloit. will teach
a term of school in Glasco this fall and
winter.
Miss Estelle Dearborn, daughter Of
Passenger Conductor Dearborn between
Beloit and Solomon, is one of the pref
test singers and performers on a piano
there is in Beloit.
The western passenger agents of the
eastern roads are daily visitors in the
north central central branch towns. A