The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-21
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Switchman John Crawford is laying off
today.
Earl Petrie has been given a wheel
lathe at night.
George Chase of the machine shop was
A new drilling lathe has been set up in
the brass corner.
Engineer B. w. Client has reported af-
Peter Heck, a coach painter, has been
sick for a day or two
Edward Dewitt of the machine shop has
been laying off two or three days
Car Repairer Brown who has worked
in the sheds for a good while. quit Sat
urday-
A number of boys were off duty. Sat
urday afternoon attending the Washburn-
K. u football game.
done because of the extensive track and
grade improvements that are being made
on that part of the system
Switchman Edward Strain has been off
because of a slight injury. He will prob
ably be able to report soon.
The father of George Thomas of the
boiler shop has arrived from Albuquerque,
time.
after a short lay off, made necessary by
the illness of his wife, who is in the hos
Victor Bloomquist is up from Peterton
visiting his brother, Carl, of the round
the shops
John Mildner of the coach shop. who has
been off duty for several weeks on ac-
his work.
NJ. Manson. general car shop. foreman.
has returned from a tour of inspection
over the Pecos Valley road of New Mex
leo. He has been away about a week.
friends ais'i in Beiievilie Mr.. Shaw was for-
merly Rock Island engineer, but is now
querque west
Joseph Fentiman of the blacksmith shop
is going to Denver this week to take a
some business matters. He will be home
again inside of two weeks.
George Risen, an ash pan hanger, has
been out a day or two changing his res
idence from Jackson to Van Buren, street:
more. is better.
Matters were rather quiet down in the
boiler shop last night on account of the
lay off which was allowed the gang that
has been working steadily after dark for
good many weeks.
Mr. and Mrs J. "; Ferggssogn Of Of Iowa W.
Pryor, foreman of the Rock Island round.
for this road at Curley. Ia
The pay train which went out over the
eastern division one day last week came In
LeiIan and Paynaster James Moore being
on. board Upon ARRIVING here Layne's
Mrs. c. Baughman, mother of Archie
Baughman of the brass foundry, has
also go to Neosho. Mo-, to be the guest
of relatives for awhile her trip viii ex-
William st. Marys. an old employee of
the blacksmith shop here. but recently
with the katy" at Denison, Tex, was
a few days for McCook. Neb., where he
viii get a job with the Burlington and
Missouri River road
Edwin Powell, boss of the wipers, re-
ceived a severe cut over one eye Satur-
day While helping pinch En- an enghne 6 al9n a
using slipped. ALLOWING him to strike his
mr. n a
Missouri Pacific machinists at Osawat-
onlie are planning a big ball to be given
on Halloween night Invitations have
been sent out and the committee is max
ing a big effort to have the event sue
cess. The shop orchestra of that town
will furnish the music
E W. Mason of Belleville, a Rock Is
land engineer between Belleville and Nc
Farland, will soon be on his run again.
MCFARLAND about six weeks. ago; This
makes the second accident in which he
has been badly hurt, and he believes that
the next will be the last.
J. NJ. Meade, Resident engineer for the
Santa Fe, returned Sunday noon from
several weeks attending the national con-
vention of the Roadmasters and Mantle
nance of Way association MI Meade pre-
sided over the meetings of the organiza-
ton and besides took a prominent part in
the work
Frank Sanderson of the boiler shop is
an alfalfa. crank. He has five acre
Win reap the fifth crop He counts the to-
tai yield as being about % tons, curtai1ed,
and the cool weather Of a few weeks ago.
He has had considerable experience in
If is better than prairie hay, although
care should be taken not to overfeed-
Edward Grafstrom, mechanical engineer,
will go to Newton this week to make COM
parative tests on electric and acetylene
gas headlights. In order to show the
of the engine to give signals and read or
binary printing, thus determining the
ing conducted at that point because it is
easiest to reach locomotives using both
methods of illumination there.
Most of the railroad men who have paid
close attention to the situation say the
1e eun at this season of the Year Pas
lures and meadows have been freshened
cate the burning drouth of midsummer,
while the recent rains have been timely
in brdpgpg The @ T Thev aa Out the Of M
Souri, river is lower than is the case ordi-
narily at this time
over the Santa Fe last night A special
train of Is cars was sent up to Alma Sun
@a ege to b shpp 5e ro ha Sale The
principal movement, however, was from
the Panhandle of Texas. The first OF the
week is always a busy time among the
has been particularly heavy. Some nights
as many as five or six trains have moved
Most Of the stock trains are being run
over the Kansas City branch. or by way
of Topeka and Holiday instead of through
North ottawa over the cutoff. This is
When Mrs. Linhart, operator for the
Santa Fe at Plymouth, returned from
dinner the other day she noticed that two
holes had been bored in the depot plat
form while she was gone. The building
is on the side of embankment and
rests on piles This space is boarded up
and used as a coal house. Mrs. Linhart
looked in this place and, seeing a man,
she promptly locked him in and tele-
graphed to Emporia for help. Trainmas-
fer
nor Immediately took an engine out to
Plymouth, got the man and landed him in
jail in less than hour after his appre-
tension He gave his name as Ernest
Stout and had been working on a farm in