The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-13

/ returned to his place after an absencs
of several days.
Adam Smith who went on only a few
! days ago as a helper in the spring shop
! is laying off sick.
Brakeman Daniels is laying of
spending the time with relatives who
! are visiting here.
Andrew Nader, who works on No.
| hammer at night, was out one night on
account of the heat.
c. r. Graham formerly a member OF
the police force. has gone to trucking
/ at the freight depot
Charles Ennis and William Downey
/ of the spring shop are figuring on a triI
to the new Indian country.
Frank Hamilton, of the sheet iron
gang, mashed his left thumb Friday
while at work and was compelled to
lay off.
Boilermaker Charles Swan is off duty
| on account of an injury to one hand
which he received while at work last
night.
Earl Petrie. an apprentice in the
south shop, will take his vacation in
August, spending the time in Cincin-
natl, O.
John Thomas. of the water service.
who was reported absent several days
ago, is still off. He was sick at last
report.
Emmett Wood, a boilermaker who
laid off a week ago because of a piece
of steel lodging in his eye, has reported
for duty
General Manager Nudge is in Denver
and Colorado Springs inspecting exte en-
sive improvements which the Santa Fe
is making
Arthur LawIess and A. A. Hope en-
ployes of the water service who were
off a day on account of sickness. have
reported again.
p Switchman Edward McFadden has
reported for duty after being off one
night attending the meeting of the
Switchen's Union.
Jefferson Leggett, who quit the shops
last spring to go on a farm, has decided
that farming don't pay and is working
as a car repairer again.
J. W. johnson, the storehouse truck
er who had one foot bruised a few days
ago by a piece of pipe falling upon it.
is reported to be improving.
Boilermaker Curtis Chilson lost
good-sized patch of skin from one side
of his face the other day as the result
of a slight accident in the boiler shop
w. L. Stark machinist in the black
smith shop, viii speak at the Sunday
afternoon meeting at 4 o'clock The
class in Bible study viii meet at
o'clock.
Ben Payne, shop accountant and W.
J. Riley, time keeper for the engineers
and firemen, are preparing for a trip
to the Kiowa-Comanche country in
few days
Werner Opperman. an old employe of
the Santa Fe is sick at his post in tile
machine shop after an absence of three
months He has been with the COM
pany Is years.
General Ludlow of the United States
army will pass through Topeka Sunday
morning on his way east from San
Francisco He will travel in a special
car over the Santa F'e.
Peter Heck of the paint shop became
a little too warm and went home the
middle of the afternoon Friday. He
was not in a serious condition, but will
not return until Monday.
John Sheffield. a member of Neiswin-
ter's truck gang, who sought the Col
orado summer resorts two weeks ago.
has returned to Topeka in time to go to
work when the rush comes.
Carl Nelson, a machinist in the south
shop who has worked here for the past
nine months, quit Friday. He was en-
ployed in the Cofran foundry previous
to entering the service of the Santa F'e.
The North Topeka switching crew on
the Santa Fe will go down the river
Saturday evening for an all night fish,
The crowd will be composed of John
Crawford, George L Stone and John
Young.
w. r. Scott, formerly travelling engi-
neer here but now superintendent of
the Fort Worth & Denver City at Fort
Worth, Texas, was at the shops Friday.
Mr.. Scott left Topeka about eight years
ago.
William Crandall, a boilermaker, is
sick at his home in North Topeka,
threatened with an attack of malarial
fever. Hilton Gould, who has been
working with him. is with George
Blossomer.
F. d Sperry, agent for the Union Pa
cific at Ellsworth has resigned on ac-
count of poor health It is intimated
he will engage in the grain business
Henry Anderson is acting as agent
temporarily.
George Oppenheimer has gone TO
work in the blacksmith shop. Open
heimer is a former employee of the San
ia F'e, having been under Foreman
Congdon of the blacksmith shop when
the latter was foreman at Fort Madi-
son, Ia
James Mcclure, who quit the black
smith shop 10 years ago after having
put in five or six years, was a shop Wis
itor Friday. After leaving here Nc
CURE became division foreman at EN-
poria and then left railroading and has
since been running his own shop at a
town in Usage county.
Walter Arnold has gone to work as a
machinist helper in the car machine
shop Three months ago he quit and
went to selling soap. Previous to that
he was an unsuccessful candidate for
the Office of marshal of the city court
of Topeka and it was soon after his
political defeat that he left the shop.
Patsy Donovan, Joseph Aigner, Thos.
Coughlin and Frank Ecclest0n are !
talking about rigging up an outfit and
starting for the new Indian country
next week There are a good many
shop men who are looking into the
of the kiowa-C onanche lands.
The fan in the mill which was tenn
porarily disa bled by the fire of Wed
nesday night, is in operation again. |