The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-29

his absence.
II arrangements can be made the Santa
F>e Reds base ball team would like to get
a game with any local team for next Mon
day afternoon.
Albert Clark. a contractor in John At
kinson's gang, was obliged to knock off
work and go home Thursday noon. He was
taken with a chill.
John Waldron Of the water service and
where they will visit relatives until the
first of next week.
Thomas Hamilton, a freight car painter.
has given up work here and has gone out
sas City from here
Robert Graham, foreman Of the scrap
iron gang, and his mother, Mrs. M. Ora
ham, are enjoying visit this week from
his sister. Mrs j. G. Howard.
G. G. Roudebush, who for few weeks
has been helping in the blacksmith shop.
has given up his place to accept some
thing which he considers better.
Machinist Charles Hart, wife, daughter
Thella and son Donald, left Thursday at
ternoon for Colorado where they will en-
joy an outing of weeks duration.
Scion Keiffer, who has been in the hos
pital for some weeks seriously sick with
typhoid fever, is reported as being on the
Fireman Lee Holcomb donned his over
alls Thursday for the first time in a month.
He has been In the east visiting relatives:
and 8.
George Stoudt of the wheel shop has
Stoudt was married only few weeks ago
but since then his wife has been in New
ton.
vice which J. w. Pushback gave to the
santa re; He vas put on as machin1st
Wis. where he has a railroad job.
Charles Roehrig, brother OF Louis Roeh-
rig of the boiler shop, who was summoned
home from Cheyenne, Wyo.. on account of
his fathers death. will return to that
Union Pacific there
avn, low,
has taken a lay off for the remainder of
the week to devote to visiting with his
| lumbus. He is his fathers only child and
| the two have not seen each other for near
| ly ten years.
! Frank Gutsch, formerly employed in the
! spring shop, but who wa. laid off when
| the reduction of last week came has re-
| turned from Chicago. He first planned that
! he might take job in the lake city, but
| has decided against it.
| Robert Rollo, until two weeks ago ma
| fireman and engineer successfully, has
| gone to WestmOreland, where it is under
stood ne Is to 90 repair work Tor the Kan Kan,
| that town to Blaine.
| About 60 feet of the new power house
at Quilting at time nee There IS Plenty Of brck
| in sight and it is not believed that the
M aas to lay far oo se
| The structure will be about 165 feet high.
Roy Dixon. mailing clerk in the division
| extended and honorable term of service.
| He has filed a number of important places
cause he feels that he has something bet
| ter in sight.
Samuel Zimmerman, who formerly sold
ha the sbaf ce Of the
| general offices of the same road here. has
gone to the Rock Island depot. where he
! he is doing work similar to that which he
| did for the Santa Fe.
| John Coldwell, for long time general
secretary Of the Railroad Y. M. G. A, but
| Gould lines. will make a talk at the after
noon gospel meeting of the Topeka asso,
Mrs. Coldwell will also sing a duet
| 1t has been decided by the management
of the shops to keep them in operation
wish may participate. in the exercises Of
| men who work with their hands.
| The wife of E. A. .Bresset mill EN-.
has to f ahe VIII Il miles ae east of
| definite stay in the hope of being benefited
in heah r 5ss vne on her the antr
| edge of the universe.
| Fireman John German, who was brought
f h0ta d a5d W6o since
that time has developed a serious case of
| that disease; was reported as being a lit
| ever to be considered out of danger. Cor
| ham fires out of Usage City.
Con Leonard, a planning mill hand, has
been chosen to fill a vacancy in the shops
fire department His regular watch will
be in the machine shop. Guy Ludington.
| place as extra man They take the places
| of men who were laid off when the shop
force reduced.
| There has been a gratifying turn for the
| better in the condition of Secretary Prout
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Prout has
weeks and lately reports did not indicate
| a speedy recovery, but he rested we'll on
came from his bedside brought the best of
| reports heard for some time.
Experiments were made Thursday after
the 'i main line ne' track east of here. The ex-
pertS took the 1927 one of the big Prairie
engines out e east ana ran ran the TRUCKS e a and
| of the snow replacers. the efficiency of
which was being tested, was used in get
| ting it in its place.
Mark Symmes, member of Hammonds
| steel bridge gang, has returned to Topeka
from Independence, where the force has
been employed for some days Symmes was
| struck under one knee cap several days
ago by a fragment of metal which made
it impossible for him to work for a while
and he has come home in order to allow
the injury to heal further before he con-
tinues his duties.
Contractor Closson. is in Atchison with
| a crew of men loading ten cars of ice
ter to be distributed at different points on
| the system. At the smaller houses the
supply has been running short, and even
| from Topeka five cars have been shipped
to Purcell, I. T.
There seems to be scarcity of help in
the fuel department at some points Here
| in Topeka little difficulty is experienced il
getting men to handle the coal, but at
some places both east and west 1t has
! become practically out of the question to
get laborers at certain periods when they
were badly needed. The abundance Of
other classes of labor, principally on farms,
| is responsible for the dearth.
George Tilson formerly inspector of air
| brakes in the field, now patient in the
Santa Fe hospital at Las Vegas. N. NJ,
has written a lengthy letter to some of his
| Topeka friends. Tnson has been seriously
affected with lung trouble. but at the time
when he wrote he appeared to be better
| than he had been recently His condition,
however. he states, is not as satisfactory
as it had been previously. Mrs. Tilson
was at her husbands bedside for some
weeks, but is now in Topeka
At a meeting of the board of manage