The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-19
brief absence made necessary by sick

a brief absence made necessary by sick
ness
Ellsworth Crouch of the hand car de
partment, who has been sick for a week.
was still unable to resume his place Mon
day
T. H. Thorp. travelling passenger agent
for the Pennsylvania lines, with head
quarters at Omaha, was in Topeka Mon
day.
Mrs NJ E. Stitt and children have been
in Wellington for few days visiting her
husband, who is a Santa Fe oilermaker
at that place.
William Gilpin who has been working
in the water service department, has been
assigned to the job of day engineer at the
pump house
Dewey Wood of the car shops who has
been unable to work for two weeks on ac-
reported for duty.
1t is not surprising that the. new engines
being stiff should require gu the attention
them the first trip.
Joseph Bauer, of the locomotive paint
shop is Is off helping the the l9ea
meeting here this week.
Robert FRITZ, coach painter who has
has been put p on again. Previous to last
year he was here a long time.
Harry Wilkinson's attack of rheuma-
brass foundry nearly a week has relent-
ed and he is at his bench again.
who has been tying to induce a Sore
hand to heal for nearly a week is in
again. me member IS sui IN PAD Sndpe
Conductor Coddington, who has been
over on the cutoff in charge of a work
train, was in town Monday His family
is in Topeka and he comes up frequently
to visit
Charles c. Myers has exchanged from
Minneapolis to St John agency, where he
began railrOading many years ago. Ell
mer E. Brown has been assigned to Min
neapolis.
has 1HI been in MIers gang for the last
two. months has received his household
goods and is now located with his family
on Locust street
Engines 1902 and 1908, two more of the
new Bald IVOh comIp POI have arrived el
have already been put on the through
passenger trains
L. c. Bell began work this morning a
vice of the company, but since the first Of
last June has been on a cattle ranch in
the Creek nation
Charles Sedgwfcl. a machinist in Mil
ler's gang, win shortly be living at his
week from Chicago. He has been here
about three months
dry about two weeks ago, returned Mon
day morning. He has been in the service
of the company about eleven years and
finds it hard to break away
Mrs. Vera Withers is here. from Kan
sas City attending the bedside OF her
" i'll ii'e with typhoid fever She is a sister
of Frank O'Brien of the boiler shop.
In the sand boxes of the new passen-
so buckets of grit, or about what is suffi-
cient to fill one barrel. Other engines re-
quire in the neighborhood of 50 bucketfuls.
Stock business has dropped off within
the last week. Instead of four or five
extras with cattle for st. Joseph, as has
been the case for a good while, the reg
ular freight has been caring for the entire
traffic
Miles Stevens. a blacksmith left Sun
day for New York, where he will meet his
mother whom he has not seen for 81
years. Twenty-Five years of that time his
parents did not even know where he was
located. He will probably be away 80
days
Henry Martin. foreman of the cab de-
partment, who was summoned to Fresno,
Call. two weeks ago on account Of the
He was made administrator of the es-
tate and it may be several weeks before
he can return to Kansas.
Peter Cart and Owen Callahan of the
water service have been taking measure
ments of the three miles or more of wa
ter pipe which is laid around the shop
plant They are locating the hydrants
and getting matters in shape for new
draft of the water system
Ralrh Kennedy, night ticket clerk at
the depot, came in Monday from the east,