The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-18

here.
H. checksfeld, a water service man,
back for some weeks. He viii probably
not get back for some time yet.
Ben Mileham,. decorator. left Saturday
ness connected with a car brass which h.
lately invented, until Wednesday,.
Several Santa Re people plan to attend
Workrnen of Usage county are going to
give at Buriingame next Thursday.
Reports from the bedside. Of General
Secretary Prout of the Railroad Y. NJ. G.
A. Saturday indicated that his condition
was not so favorable as it had been.
George Symnhes, clerk in the office of
for a brief visit His wife who has been
away some weeks, will return with him.
Fireman Samuel Ash has a divorce from
the passenger runs on the east end out of
Topeka and has taken with a morning
run O between Topeka and st. Joseph,
Mo.
Southern Pacific there is not a man on
that system over IS years old who is en-
ployed either as duc or as engi-
neer.
has been in Topeka for a few days. He
is on his way to Excelsior Springs, Mo-, to
stay for a short time before returning to
Nate Cafferty and George Bradshaw,
machinists who arrived from the west a
few days ago, have gone to Springfield,
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Frisco.
John Ulmer is handling the east side
timers during the absence of Charles
Goulding. the foreman who was
ed to Oklahoma City by the sicknes of
his mother.
r. B. Ford, foreman of the lumber yard,
left Saturday for Colorado Springs. where
he will nave a weeks outing with his wife
and children, who preceded him there by
two weeks.
There were fourteen cars in the Wood
the Santa Fe handled to Kansas City Sun
day It was figured that between 500 and
600 went from here.
General Agent Burnett, of the Austral-
ian steamship line, which the Santa oper-
ates was here from New York city. Sun
passenger department here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Prick of Columbus,
o., are here for a visit with relatives, but
| a sister of Peter Heck, a painter, n an
aunt of James McNeal of the same de-
| partment.
Hugh Casey. of the boilermaking depart
ment, reported this morning after a sick
ness which has caused him the loss of
several weeks time. In the meantime
| Logan avenue
There will be a meeting of the car and
coach painters this evening at Trades As
seembly hall, APO Kansas avenue, the OBJ
ject being to effect a union organization.
The lodge will be chartered by the
Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators of
America.
Joseph Cramer, who learned the trade
Of machinist II Topeka sho:'s. has CON
Guided an agreement with the iiock Is
Tuesday morning tdbegin his duties.
Lately he has been on The Vinewood Park
road construction gang.
| Fireman H. D, McNeely. who occupies
| the left side of every locomotive leaving
Topeka shops for trial trip, exhibited a
number of cuts and scalds Saturday, COM
ing from the bursting of lubricators owing
to the heat from the engine. One cash just
below the left eye was particularly ugly
and had the flying ragmen struck a little
higher the result might have been much
worse.
James Taggart, who has been assisting
with bill work in the office. of Mechanical
| for Point Richmond, Calf, where he
MT. Taggart, formerly had a similar po-
to Topeka to do the work which he has
carried in Mr.. Risteen's office.
ticket agent for the Big Four at Cincin-
natl. Ohio, and Mrs. Lynch passed
attached to the regular train. M. and
Mrs. Lynch were on their way to Phoenix.
1 Ari7i, wh9rs they hrsve Ti1i s Psssen some A timf
Green, of Kansas City. and r. D. John
son of the Santa FeN passenger offices
here, accompanied them this far.
dad" Clark, who used to run an engine
out of Emporia, has returned lately from
a tour Of the Pecos Valley in New Mexico.
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cellent and business as heavy. The Pc
cos Valley and Northeastern, a Santa Fe
property of recent date, during certain sea-
sons handles an immense stock traffic and
in the near future the general develop
ment of the country is going to insure a
business that will to the dividends OF
the system.
Thomas Wallace, a locomotive painter,
mixed a few red Indian colors with the
usual assortment which he distributes
over his countenance, Saturday and when
the opportunity presented itself came more
was pretty mad because somebody else
claimed the honor of being the first white
boy born in the city of -Leavenworth, and
he says he feels sure that the claim is un-
just. His mother always did tell him that
he was the first male child to arrive on
the scene of action there without previous
training and he believes she knows. He
was born in that city December 8, 1854
and three days before occurred the birth
of Cora Lyle, the first white child. Wal
| lace's father came to that part of Kansas
from Kentucky in 1858 and helped clear UT
the site of the town. Mrs. Wallace is now