The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

south shop for general repairs. went
out on trial trip Friday.
Albert Wahl. of the cabinet shop,
who was sick for a day or two, is bet
ter and able to be on duty
Edward Davis. a night car inspector.
who has been sick for some time, IS
reported to be improving.
John Young, foreman OF the North
Topeka switching crew, went home
Friday with a cinder in one eye.
Daniel Fink, of the car sheds, is on
duty after a layOn of several days,
made necessary by an injured hand
William Barbee of the south shop is
in after closing a deal for a seven acre
tract of ground near the starch factory
James Armstrong, a machinist in the
east shop, has taken his time and eX-
poets to leave soon for San Bernardino,
Cal
A number of the store house en-
ployes were off duty Friday morning
attending the funeral of w. J. Nc
Garry.
worked in the south shop for a few
weeks, has quit and will go west for
a job.
A gang of about thirty men has been
engaged for few days in straight
ening the track on the main line near
Lecompton-
Dan Masterson, of the sheds. has
quit the Santa Fe and has gone to
Florence, Colo. 1t is not known what
he viii do there.
Edwart Fart is running the bolt
lathe in the absence of Charles Billings,
who had one hand injured while at
work Wednesday.
Casper Holtzmeister, a machinist
helper, who a week ago was obliged to
Law off on account of a block dropping
on one toe, is at work
Walter Dryer. who came here few
days ago from Ration, has been put on
the pay roll of the boiler shop, having
gone to work this morning.
Charles Wallace, of the south shop,
who has been off duty for week, IS
still out. and it is not known when he
viii return. He has been sick.
Machinist Joseph sieben is rustling
his own board for a few days while his
wife and children are visiting Mrs
Frank Watson, of Kansas City.
Earl Petrie. a machinist apprentice
who went to Cincinnati a month agofOr
a visit. is expected to get back tomor-
row and resume work next week
John Campbell, who formerly fired
out of Emporia, but who has been
with the Rio Grande Western for
awhile, was around the shops Friday.
John Waldron, of the water service,
will lead the Sunday afternoon gospel
meeting at the railroad Y NJ c. A
The regular Bible study class will meet
at 8 o'clock
William Rice, who has been putting
in the summer vacation handling lum-
Der for the Santa F'e, has quit and viii
return to his books when the high
school opens.
James Mullen, assistant foreman of
the blacksmith shop, packed his grip
and today boarded the train for the
summer resorts of Colorado. He viii
be gone a week.
Engine 167, which since receiving a
general overhauling in the back shops
few days ago has been in freight SER
vice. is ready for the fast mail run
which it formerly held
While George Koeberlein. of the
blacksmith shop, was at work Friday
a pile of steel rolled down on his right
foot, bruising it so badly that he went
home. No bones were broken
Frank yogel, a timer, had a tooth
pulled Friday morning. In the after
noon he took his dinner bucket and
went home. his head feeling like some
body had taken a sledge hammer and
beaten on it.
Two of the new Santa Fe cars have
been set in at the store house, filled
with Beaumont oil. 1t viii be used in
testing the sea cow which is expected
to be ready for consuming that kind Of
fuel in a few days
Elijah Reynolds, who died Friday t.
Peter Reyonlds a machinist. He had
been suffering with heart trouble for
some time, having been brought to this
place from Kansas City a few weeks
ago.
James Clark of the machine shop.
celebrated his seventeenth wedding an
niversary Thursday evening at his
home on Polk street. The festivities
were little too much for Clark, as he