The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-16

Thursday for. Virginia where he win
spend vacation of several weeks
The family of Samuel Higgins, porter
to General Manager Nudge has returned
from visit Of several weeks in Colo
RADIO.
John SoderIund is swinging a hammer
again after a lay off for a short time on
sheds
Richard Bancroft of the water service
dropped a piece of pipe on one of his feet
the other day and has been unable to
Engine O167, which was partially dis
abled in the fast mail smash of Saturday
morning, has been placed in the east shop
Peter Reynolds Of the machine shops
has been laying off caring for a SICK
Kansas city. 49,
H. W. Nichaels, who has been working
IN Graham,s scrap iron gang mas gone 70
Riverside Iron works
Otto Weber of the sheet iron gang
has not been at work since then He is
sick and will not be in this week
Alfred Clayton, maehinist who has
been in Graham,s gang in the south shop
has called for his time and will go to
Bloomington, Ill, where his parents live
Switchman John Crawford, George Nc
I4aughlin and Martin Reardon, a gang
foreman in the sheds.Wi go out to Osaw-
lSie tomorrow to spend a few days fish
ing
e. G. McClintic is a new machinist. He
has been working in a contract shop at
Oklahoma City. and previous to that was
with the Frisco His wife VIII be here
next week
Roy Neugebauer, a hammer boy in the
blacksmith shop. quit today and Will go
with relatives to Oklahoma, where he
viii live on one of the claims lately open
ed to settlement
Levi Letter, the noted Spectator on the
Chicago board of trade, passed through
Topeka Thursday over the Santa Fe on
pied special Pullman car Courier.
Ben F. Carpenter. stationary engineer
at the Santa F'e depot at La Junta. is IN
Topeka hospital receiving treatment for
his eyes which were injured by some
pieces Of metal or cinders lodging in
them.
G. w. Davidson. a son of ]. B. David
son of the brass foundry, has arrived
from Alamoso. Col, having been called
child is now at Christ hospital and her
condition is much improved lately
Another order of rs Benson burners
will be completed next week and will be
shipped to the Gulf lines A little later,
erai hundred more viii be sent out for
use on different parts of the system
The first move toward putting the ma
chinery in the new blacksmith shop was
made late Thursday afternoon when the
anvil block for one of the big steam ham
mers was pulled inside on a car. The
weight of the block is seventeen tons
The other day tire on one of the dri-
vers Tor the new w engine purst Win
Ing in the yards just south of the ma
chine shop When the tire shrank a sup
give way, and it was thrown several feet.
John FIlfard who. by means of com
pressed air cleans all the seat cushions of
the coaches has been transferred from
the upholstering department to the water
service and viii work as night Waterman
He Will take the place of Joseph Aigner,
sr who expects to start soon for the
Tyrol country of Austria to look after
some estate matters
Willard Stitt, the roundhouse boiler
maker who was fortunate enough to draw
an early number in the contest at FL
Reno, has returned from that country.
where he went more than two weeks ago
He selected as his claim quarter "A
miles from Lawton. most of it second
bottom we'll timbered with pecan and oaiz
water
James Mercer, assistant to Joseph
Beyer, chief Of the fire department, left
cuperate for the next three weeks Part
OF the time he will spend in Colorado. but