The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-11

| shop has been off duty for several days
| which he had shipped in recently. Stein
rauf will hold them until spring. expect
tin - 81 9 soo' p'4ee 40 'Asn - Ina
Gus Osman. who has been selected to
visit other shops for the purpose OF
the brass corner, besides stopping at
opa a Mia thas and an peo # He R Rf
| probably be gone ten days or two weeks.
Carpenters are busy putting in a new
near the first pit in the boiler shop. The
machine is used on heavy work alto
Something as' ponderous New FINDERS : ar r.
required for it every once in a while.
| side of the tracks. was given a pleasant
surprise party at his home in North To-
came in on himself and wife and spent
the evening in social converse and feast
ing on oysters
Marceline Saturday It takes. a good
while to get matters Strengthened out af-
crews. and until that time there are a lot
OF, fellows that are guessing about just
Fred Niglario 15-year-old brother of
Boilermaker Martin Miglario, has been
have an operation performed on a leg
which was injured some three years ago.
The bone was crushed in accident and
ever since His home Is at Lecompton.
George DONNIE. a member of James
compelled to lay off and give a sore finger
time e te he's heal Oyer week ago DONNIE nae
only about day on account of it SINCE
p rneb h be OF Several DAYS ana
was a record made, by the wheel shop in
the number reached 212. eSs. For the same
period of time s11 pairs of wheels were
put on and 612 pairs taken off. All of
these figures are far above what they
used to be.
Claude Finn, son Of Engineer Dan Finn,
who runs on trains 11S and Ia out of here.
died Friday at Argentine. Several years
ago he fell out of a. barn and that indio
rectly caused his death. He was about 20
years old and number Of years ago
funeral was held at Argentine Saturday.
John Thomas, a. trucker at the freight
house.. had his left leg broken below the
knee Saturday afternoon by piano fall
ing upon it. He was helping move the in
strument out of car when it toppled off
the dolly" falling on Thomas leg and
breaking it. Thomas has been here only
a few months, having come from Wich-
Al Olson, a machinist in the south shop.
went out hunting the other day and al
though he had fairly good luck, is con-
are training down to sprinting weight
this season. He secured, three, however,
for duty after a brief absence.
David McMullen,a poilermalzer who quit
tent of going. to La Junta, will postpone
the time of his departure until there is
Il
Wheeler. Wheeler has been ill for some
time with appendicitis at his home. in
North Topeka and his condition at last
report was very serious. He and McMu1-
len have been close friends for several
years.
Robert Baird. a switchman for the San
ia. F'e at MARCHING, Mo. was killed in a
saloon row there Friday night. He was
shot five times by Ben Richardson, a bar
tender. after he had taken four shots at
Richardson In !, the evening Minis the two
between them for some time. They after
shot first. but did not hit his rival. He
was formerly at Galesburg, Ill.
Fuel Contractor Closson has found it
Topeka to points on the Santa F'e. In
Chicago especially there seems to be a
chute and work without asking a price
that is exorbitant- The heavy grain crop
ment to a army of men in the elevators
of that city and it is this that has pro-
duced the scarcity of fellows who could
be procured coal ShoVelerS at a rea-
sonable rate
On the cover page of the current num-
Der of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Journal is an excellent
likeness of President Roosevelt. The
new chief executive is a great favorite
with the railroad men and more than
once when travelling as the most dis
tinguiShed passenger on the train has
not forgotten to pay his respects to the
fellows on the sharp end.
One of the best lectures that has ever
been heard at the Y. NJ c. A that
given Friday by DR.. j. P. Raster, chief
surgeon for the Santa Fe- For fifty
had watches. DR.. Raster talked on the
subject of What to Do When You Are
Hurt and no one one bndged from ri his seat
out. After the address the Misses Dav
captured the audience by short musi-