The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17

sheds who has been at work here fol
| the past four months, quit Friday and
left on No. for Denver where he ex
poets to get a. job with some Colorado
railroad.
Nathan Cafferty. the machinist whS
| was operated upon last Saturday fol
| appendicitis, is improving He has beer
| moved out into the big ward, but 1t viii
be some time yet before he viii be able
to walk
Robert Salkeld, a boilermaker who
came up from Cleburne, Texas, about
three weeks ago and was put on here,
has been transferred back to the Gull
/ lines. It is thought he will be sent to
/ Gainesville.
A Mcclure. a fireman on the Bur
Sephs was around the shops Friday =.
S. MartindaIe. who has been firing on
the Wabash out of Peru, Ind, was also
a shop visitor.
S. N. Peck. draghtsman in the mill,
has joined the exodus westward and
left Friday for Palmer Lake, Col, where
he will remain until next week. He will
meet his wife who has been out there
for some time-<
William Maze of the boiler shop. who
was called home the middle of the
week by the dangerous illness of his
mother, is in again. His mother has
slightly improved. according to reports,
but is still very sick.
The timers and truck men must be
credited with a new expression, which
is intended as a compliment to the
company. Get a Santa Fe move on
you" signifies that a man should pro-
coed with extraor binary haste.
Al Smith, of the air brake corHar,
laid off Friday to have his right arm
photographed by X-ray. Smith thinks
in the upper arm and wants to have it
located so that it can be removed
Fred Martin, a car repairer in Elliott's
gang, was struck in one eye by a piece
of a bolt, while at work Friday. He WAS
taken to the hospital but was afterward
released, it being found that the acct
dent had in no way injured the sight
The soldier record of Corporal Basil
L Baird, a brother of Clifford Baird, OF
the south shop, has been received. The
relatives of the dead soldier are max
ing efforts to have the body returned
to the United States as soon as pos
sible.
Somebody played a mean trick on j.
M. Sprowl, a carpenter in the sheds.
While out for dinner Friday noon, a
pair of aluminium frame spectacles was
taken from his coat which hung near
his bench, and so far the glasses have
not been returned.
The gang which, under the foreman
ship of John Mespelt, puts up steel
water tanks along the Santa F'e, will
leave Sunday night for DeGraff,
small station IN Butler county where
they will be kept busy on a new tank
for about two weeks
Question suggested by a shop man:
If $50 kegs of beer in the jail have
been found detrimental to the health of
the city, what must be said about the
effect upon the health of the Oakland
people of the cren atory and Dump"
This query is being put with consider
able stress, and the Oakland residents
are anxious for a proper solution.
If there is a railroad in Kansas f1.~+
can produce section foremaG Of
greater proportions than one in the
Santa Fe service it is now time to
speak up. Albert P. Jump, who has
charge of the first section on the Alma
branch, stands seven feet five inches
high. He weighs 1876 pounds, is 80 years
old, is dark complexioned and has
brown eyes. He has held his present
job since last spring and previous to
that he worked on the Usage City sec
ton. Very likely there are few sec
ton bosses that weigh more than Jump
but it is doubtful if any can reach his
height.