The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-05
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

GA years old.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Conductor A. J. RAIDER is laying off.
Machinist John Frizzeu has been laying
John Polhammer has been hired in the
mill
John Brown of the machine shop has
been off a few days
Machinist Thomas Hannigan has been
out for several days.
Jacob Fetzer, a coach painter, went
home sick Wednesday,
J. r. Magee of the blacksmith shop is
out on account of sickness.
Switchman John Crawford has reported
after being off about week
Engine 2Os. ten wheel Brooks. is in
receiving general overhauling.
W. J. Healy, auditor of freight receipts,
left on No Wednesday for Chicago.
Lewis Dowd and William Peterson of
the car sheds were off duty Wednesday.
John Thompson, a car repairer, has been
sick and unable to work for a day or
two.
Frank Drew. the fireman who was scald-
ed at St. John Saturday night, is improv-
A number of the new passenger engines
here
E. c. Ogston. travelling refrigerator
agent for the Santa Ee, was in Topeka
Wednesday,
Joseph sieben, a machinist who has
been losing some time lately, reported
Wednesday,.
Fanb Phps S eaepe tor AXE aa HIS
He is sick.
T B. Cook. chief clerk in the general
freight office of the Santa F'e, went to
Chicago Wednesday evening.
John Seeker of the car sheds is off on
account of a mashed foot, caused by a
jack falling on it the other day.
Machinist John Schneibel who has been
detained from duty because of attack
of rheumatism. is at work again.
for the Mefe Fate ggtn agens
at Kansas City, was in Topeka Wednes-
Ora Ferrin. a carpenter in the sheds:
has been off since Tuesday. He is obliged
to be away because of personal business
A. A. Robinson, president of the Next
can Central, has gone to St Louis in his
to Boston.
John Harrington. who has been a mem
Der OF jerks gang in the east erecting
shop, has been transferred to the air
brake corner.
Chair car 1915. which was placed in the
hands of the coach carpenters a few days
the painters.
Engine s7g, a Santa Fe-Paciic lecomo-
hauling, was ready to go out on its
maiden trip today.
nected with the Santa F,e at this place,
was around the shops Wednesday.
car department. He was formerly a shop
man. but for two years or such matter
has been in the insurance business.
Conductor Richard Wilson. who has
been i'll considerably of late, is duty
big Baldwins light Wednesday for the
west
down with typhoid fever for nearly two
weeks, is slowly recovering and it is
of bed.
Trail Raub. fue setter in the boiler
shop, has been off duty because he knock
hand off the other day while using
hammer.
Charles Wallace of the south shop who
his place He came in Monday. but the
grip has been OBTAINING him from work
Locomotive No: 6. belonging to B; Ian
try SONS has 6een Sef tn IN the tn mo
an oil burner. 1t is one of five to be sent
to California for service
Brakeman Al. McMurtry, who has been
running on the St. Joseph passenger, has
been given the place on the Kansas City
Chamberlain two weeks ago.
Joseph Devlin, a former Topeka boiler
Te1 for pu me VAS here n Wen eeufn
will work for the Santa Fe.
James Baird of the coach shop who was
off last week, but who was able to come
in again Monday. has been obliged to
affliction which delayed him before.
William Sheldon of the boiler shop, .ac-
gone to Kentucky to be at the bedside Of
Mrs Sheldon's father. who is critically
sick He expects to be gone two weeks.
For about two weeks the guide grinder
in the machine shop has been under re-
pairs at the hands of the water service
department. Now it is back in position
again. 1t has been in the service for
about II years.
Boilermaker George Brosamer has re-
ported after short lay off. Brosamer
has been working at night for a time on
the new Henderson steel box cars. but
since that job has been completed he was
out for two days.
Engine 22S6 has been given heavy re-
pairs and is ready for yard service again.
Mrs. c.. b. Wright of Charlton. Ia is
here for a visit with her nephew, Frank
L. Coles. a roundhouse machinist who
lives at $50 Lane street
Fred Carlson, a mill hand who ran a
splinter in the first finger of his left
BILE than he anticipated with the mem
Der. 1t is badly swollen at last report and
was paining him considerably
John Thiessen, a Santa Fe employe at
Newton, is in the hospital here and may
have to submit to an operation Several
years ago one of his hands was injured
by the discharge of a gun and lately it
has been making trouble for him.
R. E. .Hoyle, a former Santa F'e con-
ductor, but now running a train of
Denison. Tex on the Katy, has a little
daughter lying at the point of death at
the family home in that city Typhoid
fever is the cause of the illness.
Since the work of setting up the new
engines has begun the south shop has
been almost deserted. It has been neces-
sary. to take such of the force from the
Some of the ma chiniSts have been putting
in time at night
William Swa1wen. a carpenter in the
water service, is out on account of an in
piece of wood with a Ratchet he missed
his aim and caught the inside of his left