The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-19

where he has been on two weeks leave
OF absence. He spent most of the time in
Buffalo and Cincinnati and is we'll fixed
for the winters work after remaining at
] the indoor job all summer.
Sunday evening a force of boilermakers
previous night. finished the new smoke
drums for the boilers of the mill. Frank
| and says it was completed within an hour
of the time he figured it would be done
when they started it.
On Wednesday evening at o'clock
William Peterson; sheds carpenter, will
e cy f The Ms e Viii E frs pae OF
at the home of the bride and Thursday Mr..
ana take charge of the home which has
been prepared for them at 1913 Jackson
street.
under the wheels at Nortonville Sum
day evening and lost three toes of his
being brought to Topeka he complains of
his back, and it is feared that one knee
dent.
delayed about four hours Monday on
count of a wreck at Hurdlin, Ia. Some
the the second section of fast freight Nol %
crashed into the rear of the first section
o of the ,g same tTafn causing "a smash that
Seriously hurt.
Chief Chemist Powers left on No. 6
a meeting of the Western Railway club.
The leading object in attending the meet
ton by Prof Shepard Of the University
Of Chicago and the discussion which is to
side of two three days.
Regular assignments of fremen in the
for the wnfer william and Me
has been machinist helper working on
gwen dsy lh Job and
| will do the work at night. The two boilers
| time.
| Roger Van Hook, who has resigned the
dent Mcclellan Of the the eastern division,
formerly held a similar position in the
vious to that he was on the Santa Fe
pay rolls. His service always has been
resignation would not have been consid-
cred for moment had the reduction in
segue not been necessary.
| Edward Fuller, tender of the Second
fhat are beng made og fHe
| there. AS soon as a train enters the block
Connection is es lasting about a
minute, by which the ringing of bell
at second street appTlees the switch ten
| cidentally it may be said that Fuller has
his the nosnb abo e YEARS having s
wiring is the principal Improvement that
is being made.
Steam shovel 1885, one of the small type
| in use in Pueblo around the smelters
there for handling. the Stag that the San
ia Fe utilizes for ballast, has been
brought in for a thorough Overlapping.
| After being fixed up it will so to Lebo,
Kan, on the cutoff, for work in the ex-
| tensive grade improvements that are be-
| ing made there 1t has been displaced in
| Colorado by of the large machines
| built recently at South Milwaukee, Wis.
| and later set up by the Santa Fe water
| service at Topeka shops
| In a few weeks the bridges for the
| new electric cranes which have been con-
f-14 cd for
bridges are for the purpose of shifting the
| location of the lifting machinery, and the
| entire outfit is to be built by the Whiting
foundry equipment of Harvey, Ill. The
| so new chair cars and coaches which are
! to be built by the Pullman company win
| be modern and similar to those which
| were lately turned out by that company.
| 1t has been practically decided that the
power to be used in the new shops will
| be electricity. Plans are being drawn now
| to this end and will be finished before
long.
Henry Aultman. the. car repairer who
| was accidentally struck on the head last
| Thursday by a sledge, had not been oper-
ated upon up to this morning. At first he