The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23

| has been on duty nights for several
months past has been changed back to
| on oil tanks
| Reed sayler, a fireman in the mill, has
property improvements at his home on
| Locust street. Joseph Euler has been TAX
| ing his place.
| Woodwork on the second "batch" of 200
| tank cars has been begun. Not all the
| first $50 have been completed. but the mill
| has finished its part and has now started
| on the last installment.
James Crozier, the teamster on the east
visit for the past two weeks with his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Crozier, of Kan
| early part of the week
H. W. Nation, chief clerk in the of
fee of Trainmaster ROBINS oe is at his desk
| account of the death of his mother and
because of illness.
| Engine 112, an eight-wheel Manchester,
! went out on trial trip Tuesday. The ma
| chinists We're putting the fxings to il
possible.
z M G A at the state convention OF
| the Y. NJ. c. A. expect to leave tomorrow
f fhe F @eeGg VIII VIII eoetnue for
| the remainder of the week.
Peter Burghardt, a helper in Mullen's
| has been keeping him at home. An en-
| CINE. bell turned over the other day while
| the member 50 badly that he has not been
| able to be on duty since
Music classes of the Railroad Y NJ G;
| A will soon occupy rooms on the second
| floors of the building formerly used by p.
| Santa Fe. This is the first move in recog-
| milton of the fact that the ASSOCIATION
| has outgrown its present quarters
| H c. Phillips, assistant superintendent
| of the. Chicago division, with headquar-
ters at Fort Madison. IA, was in Topeka
water at'S 8. T. to attend a law suit as a
No ffeaJ x1-iva
| postponed, so he returned to the east on
possessed of a feeling that they would
| enjoy trip to the woods for few days.
| the nutting season and the best time
for hunting squirrels, and it is hard to
| continue the usual grind of labor under
such conditions.
Business at night over the Kansas City
branch has become exceptionally heavy
recently, so much so that Jacob Lewis,
night caller at the roundhouse, has been
| doing more than one mans share of the
| signed to the job of helping him call en-
| CINE crews for while until the rush of
traffic is over
been sent to her parents in Kansas City.
She is threatened with an attack of ap-
hope that she will be able to obtain bet
ter treatment than it was. possible for
compelled to work all day on his engine.
An operation may be necessary later.
H. b IHlOtSOn, the mdch1nlSt VINO was
burned in the first puff of the sea cow"
was around the shops the other day He
aged Osman Bates who was worst hurt.
is thought to be on the mend although
a good deal. T. E. Layden, assistant SUI
perintendent of tests, who Jared worst
when the engine played its second prank,
is said to be coming along all right
John Glenn, a coach painter, went home
r1esdX teri S on T., Of nls fir
way. In nice weather number of the
boys sit outside the shop and smoke dur
ing the noon hour; Glenn says that when
the whistle blew Tuesday, as they knock
ed the tobacco from their pipes, a puff
leaves into his eye with the result that
unable to remain on duty
On Tuesday the Western Roofing COM
pany of Kansas City began putting new
roof will consist of one thickness of 4-ply
paper. covered with tar and gravel The
building has more shelter area than any
building similarly covered in Topeka,
there being 1850 squares measuring ten
about I'VE weeks time for for its C complexion
owing to the work incident to tearing up
small job on the new blacksmith shop.
L. s. Maddrell, formerly a coach car
penter here but lately in Alaska, has been
than a year ago MaddreiI drifted up in
the northwest and finally to the K,londilze,
for. while; Now he has returned to Sc
attic Wash, where he ,, VII spend enc s ths
region in spring He says he has a good
claim in that Country and thinks that the
gold fields Of the northwest are the only
E>place for a poor man. he has several
nuggets in his possession.
south end Of the blacksmith shop and as
soon as this is finished the iron doors, will
out looking over the location of the new
ice house. additions which he is to build
in time for the harvest of the coming
winter Part of the material for the Lee
compton depot has arrived although there
Iii al f1ea
desire of the people there to have a 16-
foot waiting room addition made to the
ment will probably be made.
Some fggring. on til the plan to build
partment has looked into the cost of put
ting down second line out as far as ID
gin for the entire distance between Chi
cago and Joliet, 40 miles. Traffic on this
portion of the system has been extremely
heavy and freight trains have been known
to wait in Joliet from O'Clock, in the
the line was blocked with other BUSH
ness.
Forty-nine guns, Wholesalers and Mar
from the general offices, where they have
been stored for some time. to the store
Company yea Years ago Ego to be used by its Sc
cret service officers, and some say for the
half of them gave the appearance of hav-
ing passed through a long war; One or
gether with Irvine string. and the wood of
another had been charred; 4 number
were as good as new, evidently having
been handled little if any,
John Putnam, who until three, weeks
Kansas avenue in the 400 block, has gone
to work in the drill press corner OF the
machine shop. He was previous to that
stationary engineer at the Central Ma
tional bank. and followed that occupation
for some time before coming to Kansas.
He is. father of r. ]; Putnam, clerk in
the office of the machine shop foreman.
Somebody who had eye to interesting
pictures snapshot engine 491, one of the
Rhode Islands,. which No 5,
while it stood in the union depot shed
at Kansas City. In the foregroq pun !, of
Rain and Fireman Samuel Ash It was