The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
ABOUT RAILROAD PEoPLE.

quarters at Fort Worth, Tex.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Locomotive or has been turned out for
| trial trip.
Robert Holmes, a helper in the boiler
making department, has gone TO Denver.
Emil Quednow of the water service has
| been sick and unable to be at his most Tor
few days.
| Clyde Scheaffor, No. hammerboy in the
| days outing.
| L. L A: Nicely. who works a dispatcher's
trick is away from the trainsheet for a
Gay or two owing to sickness.
Charles Rice has Joined the San Bernar-
dino contingent from Topeka Shops He
used to assist on the big fire here
-, The he wife of George Oppenheimer of the
Madison, La, to attend her sick mother.
| Mrs. A. w. Johnson of us Lawrence
street, wife Of a scrap iron worker, is
| is serious. :
Otto Wright, helper in the blacksmith
shop who has been laying off for a few
days, is detained, it is Believed, owing to
a sore hand.
Otis Wright helper in the smith shop
VINO lately was put on, has been obliged
70 stay nome Tor a few days owing to
| an attack of sickness.
sh a; 4 ,; Fiske Vas missed from the smith
control when he is duty.
| Mrs. Minnie Corbin daughter of Sam
from Chandler nfa for VISIT d IS here
weeks length with relatives.
Frank Bovey and James DeBarr of the
from their places Friday. Probably the
showers have been OBTAINING them at their
| Fred Short, son of Samuel Short of the
| machine shop who recently found service
with the Frisco at Springfield Mo-, will
De n topeka To- the early part of next
Mexican Central car No. 49, that which
| President A. A. Robinson occupies on his
for Brief e IN before fha
Robinson started for the Mexican capital.
Repairs are being given the old wreck
capacitation. the big steel wrecker will be
ready to adjust all troubles that arise.
go into service here.
| B. NJ Van Cleave of the store depart
ment, and for many. years a prominent
worker in the association. will speak at
the railroad 7. NJ. G. A. 0-''e -
Erick Walgren of the machine shop and
| Charles johnson. clerk in the office of
Shops, Superintendent Purcell, have re-
turned from the mountains. where they
had an outing of two weeks.
| Conductor ]. D. Dahoney who has the
captaincy of the traffic on the Leaven-
worth branch. has asked for and received
Chicago on brief recreation trip
| Peter DONNIE, who was hit over the left
ear by wedge the first part of the week
wound was about the shops FRIDAY morris rne
Ling. He will be ready for operations about
Monday
| Gala, is here for visit with former
| friends, D1aking his headquarters at the
home of Charles Hinchman, 1901 Seward
avenue. He is a car repairer and for a
long time worked in the Topeka freight
| sheds.
Walter Lyon, a machinist, left the
shops hurriedly Friday afternoon and it
| was believed that he had received a mes
sage announcing the critical illness of his
| mother in Michigan 1t has been known
| for several days that she was seriously
| sick.
the shops. will leave Monday for a visit
| of about a fortnight in Chicago. His
place at the pattern department will be
| was in similar work.
Word received from Jacob weyler, re-
eenby s appointed foreRan Of the black
| shows that he is much pleased with mat
| ters there. He plans to have his family
with him next month.
| Hjalmer East, brother of Fred East who
works on the first furnace in the black
| smith shop, is recovering satisfactorily
from the operation which he underwent
| a week ago in New York. He will not
| be out for some weeks.
The wife of John Nick Miller, a. clerh
| in the office of Storehouse Foreman Stew
art, has returned from Dubuque, Ia, where
she has been for some months undergoing
much better than it has been for a lons
time.
Mrs. Peter Anderson and son Arthur
who have been here and in Usage county
| for visit of two weeks. left today fol
their home. While in Topeka they wers
! stopping at the home of John Wetterlund
| a blacksmith.
Edward Moore first heater on No.
in the smith shop. has shouldered a picl
and shovel and has quietly moved off Il
| Russell county, where he will spend brie
vacation determining whether not there
is any gold in the shale of that district.
H. u Nudge. general manager, and J
E. Hurley, general superintendent, oc
cupied the same special coming in from
the west. Friday morning. Mr.. Mudg,
was returning from a pleasure trip ahd
Mr.. Hurley from one of business.
Matt Sprou1l, a sheds carpenter is work
ing with considerable more than usua
zest. The cause: He is the possessor o
fine young horse colt sired by the ia
other good blood for speed in its veins
Special car 222, which was supposed t.
| go east No. this morning. was on
of the shops all day Friday and in tn
along the rails of the Kansas City brancl
toward Tccumseh- The remai2der of tn
day was consumed giving it its last ex
quisite touches
from the Pacific coast where he worke
| for the Union Iron Works of San Fran
| cisco and a number of corporations, wa
| hired for service this morning He for
department here, hence he will not b
entirely new to the work
II William Boyes has returned to his plac
in the water service after a leave of alb
| the victim of exceptional misfortun
/ while away his fathers home near Pitts
burg where he was spending his vacation
caught fire and before the blaze could b