The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-07

new shop site and has had it moved to 100
Locust street, where he IS now living
Mater formerly lived on Chandler street.
The wife of John Isaacson, foreman or
the planning mill, has recovered sufficient
" so that she has been taken to her home
day.
the second finger Of his left hand mashed
by being caught between two ties Mons
DAY morning, IS unable 70 work ana II
seems likely that he will lose part OF
the member
A number of shop men laid off Tuesday
the south shop at IL o'clock conducted a
party and Charles Wheeler of the same
little folks.
The membership committee of the Rail
road Y. M G. A held a meeting TUESDAY
The conference was an important one and
was fairly well attended Supper was
served to the members
". Parkerson, engineer in the boiler
shop, has been obliged to take a rest Of
a few days because Of a swelling which
low the knee. He expects to return to
his place in a. short time
John Seeker. a car .repairer, has been
foot. Seeker ran a roofing nail in his
right foot while at work the other day
and his recovery has not been rapid. He
expects to be in again soon, however.
Edwin Parker, a gang foreman in !, the
from William Parker of Lakin, Kan. Par
ker until recently was a private in com.
pany D, Twenty-fourth infantry. having
ippines with that regiment
John Bulware, the storehouse man who
left Monday for the southwest will spend
City n. NJ, going from there to Denver.
Pueblo and other Colorado points the re-
ing his work at the store house and de-
pot.
The passenger traffic of the Santa Fe
which with the show business, made
matters lively for the passenger officials
special rates to homeseekers in the west
and southwest was the principal cause
Edward Roberts, who runs lathe in
the tool room of the machine shop, has
quit and will go to San Bernardino, Cal
It is not known what he intends to do
but it is understood that he will be given
a good Place 9nGer S5e0rge W S+1ls1, =, sr d
of the system Roberts has been in the
tool room here for little more than L
years.
Robert SteckweH and Samuel Cramer or
the storeroom went fishing down the ka1
Hunt. Willie Hanson and Fred Isaacson,
of which were as good as those caught
by the Santa Fe men Stockwell tried
boys in order that they might have some>
thing to show to their credit but they
were unsuccessful.
J. L. Gillian, fuel clerk in the division
offices, received message Tuesday af
ternoon telling him that his mother was
in a dying condition at her home in Ten
MS Square. Pa. He left on No for that
place. The message came as a severe
Shock to Mr.. Gillian as well as to his
many friends, he having had no intina-
ton that his mother was even i'll. He
thinks there is but little chance for re-
covery she being 70 years old but says
she has never been sick before
Surveyors began the preliminary work
for laying out the site for the new ma
chine shop late Tuesday afternoon. The
work may not be completed for little
while on account of the buildings not hav-
ing been moved. After this survey the
section men will put down test pits
in that way examining. the nature Of the
soil to determine what kind of foundation
will be necessary. Then the foundation
plan Will be laid out, ana If the ground is
cleared work can be begun The building
viii be $50 feet l inch long and 153 feet 10
inches in width and viii be one of the
largest railroad machine shops in tho