The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-31

putting in overtime lately on this account
John Anderson. who manipulates the
north elevator at the storehouse,, is doing
his work after an absence Of about a
Of Edmond. Ok. His son accompanied
Tuesday evening to Miss Blanche Ford of
Usage City Miss Ford is well known IN
to her to that
place
Mrs C. Baughman. mother of Archie
eanss slN visit d % Rs
Gently Mrs: Baughman has been Ill, but
now is in fairly good health.
Fred Carlson. a machine hand in the
rst nser aah four weeks ago. one came ms
Monday. On account of blood poisoning
he he has almost entirely rely recovered ra 80
William Grant and Thomas. Mulvihin.
boilermakers who have been here for
that place Monday. Grant will return to
this place in May and when he goes back
Topeka girl as his bride.
Monday in the engineers instruction
sa Mor ts sha ps ode on Of paroad
locomotive. A representative Of the
Der of prominent Santa Fe men,
The addition to the draughting room
was built a few months ago for special
purposes. is being. torn out 1t is proba-
be moved into the building occupied by
the superintendent of machinery
Lee Gabler,, a machinist, who has been
detained at home for several days, Civ
ing a reception to a lately arrived boy;
to wor The name To Which Se ad
will answer, and already he has the prom
grandmother.
knights of Pythias lodge No sS is MAX
ing extensive preparations for a public
urday evening There will be an enter
tainment in connection with the event.
been purchased, Will be exhibited then for
the first time.
Joseph Aberle, a laborer in the store.
ter a lay off of several days. He went
h, the other day y With tss some iron rust
enced considerable trouble with the mem
Der, although now he has recovered from
Willie Happie. who for the last five
ginning Monday lacked only 100 hours of
Completing the time which will give him
t the ciassln;cation OF bo1ermaGer f FMS
years, but Happie was in the department
year before receiving his papers.
Hoeck OF the roundhouse. is looking for a
box of cigars which, becoming presented
Where they had '1 been locked LateIy It
has been unsafe to leave anything of this
taken while the owners back is turned
Four tanks to- be used in storing oil for
the new blacksmith shop are under con-
ing. upwards of a thousand gallons 1t
is believed that oil is to form a larger
part OF the fuel for the Santa Fe shops
here when the new plant goes into opera
ton than ever
Frank Blume1ein, a machinist for the
Santa Fe at Winslow, Ariz-, but who
served six years. term in Topeka shops,
town MONDAY.
to Germany to look after matters in con-
who died several months ago. Blumelein
is native of that country and after leav-
ing here visited his fatherland-
1t is probable that before long the turn
table at the roundhouse will be operated
by compressed air. At present that job is
the locomotive has made it almost inn
perative to use some other means. The
with the pump of the engine being turned
and in that way secure the required
never been tried.
s'Open house all day. is the generous
year ha %9ich to the fbe IeonIe
who are accustomed or wish to get in
the way Of pa "a 10 lin that ins ST
nesday the women who have the event in
charge will receive. the visitors, In the
afternoon and evening there will be mu-
sic and a programme. In the evening, a
local company. will put on the play "Ro-
many men think about New Year resolu-
lions, the association tries to throw
around them such influences as will
strengthen them in that way.
Because of the wreck near Lang Sun
day night it necessary to send a
great many of the through trains over the
cutoff. The damage which resulted from
the derailment comparatively small |
only one refrigerator car being off the
rails. This was so heavy, though, that 1t
compelled the presence of the wrecking
crane in order to handle it. Some of
the trainmen heard the pounding of the
loose brakebeam and signaled the engi-
neer to stop He was doing rapidly
as rossibIe when the trucks left the track |
1t is said that bad the speed been high |
ness would have been much augmented
a large quantity of ice which the |
Santa F'e is using in filling its houses on
this part of the system At Topeka and |
Atchfson the ice houses are stored with |
the St Joseph product, but at Lawrence |
the company has its own field above the |
dam Monday morning cutting began on |
the Hot Springs canon near Las Vegas, |
N NJ and will continue until the sup
ply gives out SO long as the railroad |
hundred men are employed in getting out |
about hundred cars a day at that place |
and the quality can easily be surmised
when it is known that the stream comes |
from the mountains and is remarkable for |
its clearness and purity. During the past |
summer the Santa Fe has had much diff |
ficulty in securing ice with which to ship |
the perishable products of the west, and
1t will make special efforts this season to
provide against the recurrence of any |
such threatened famine for next sum-