The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-26


business for himself
Considerable equipment for the Mexican
Central ,e has been mo 10Y ing over the Santa
poria over the cutoff
Mrs: J. w. Holt mother of Fireman Mil
West Fifth. street several weeks ago,
bruising her head and limbs, is slowly re-
covering from the injuries
J.. D.. Murphy, until. recently connected
with the Santa Fe in the capacity of
Scott to take position in the Missouri
Pacific shops at that place.
a genuine Imitation of putting a fresh
coat of backing in the sInokestacls of the
daVs' The ei lob took him as much as a
hundred feet above the ground.
Eleven hundred feet of new two and a
the fire department headquarters, enough
with what has already arrived recently,
to last the firemen for a while.
Trainmen report a big coal business
though for Sometime it has not been
NECESSARY for the train between NJ Top Dza
and Usage City to make a double trip
daily, as was the case for a while.
Locomotive OF, which has been in the
service of the company for a long term of
years, recently haying run on the Hot
relieved and will shortly be an added orna-
ment to the scrap heap in the yards here.
William Panick and George Hornbarger,
formerly in the train and yard service of
the Santa Fe at Emporia have gone to
Parsons where they are switching for the
Katy. According to reports that road is
in need of men of this kind at that point.
The wife of Alvin Dodge, formerly of
ter for a visit before going to Botsford
Ok, near which town Dodge drew a
claim in the government contest last
summer. Her husband left for that place
Monday.
Siebert Thompson, who works on the
hange fire in the boiler shop, found after
the possessor of generous case of the
hasfiX andnne IN his i io upfii Sirfs NE
velopments-
AS an additional attraction for the mid
week meeting at the coach shop Thurs
day noon. the male quartette of the Rail-
road Y. M; c. A. will sing. Charles n.
ing meetings at the First Presbyterian
church, will speak
The wife of D., A. sayler, lately a plan
foremanship of the Missouri Pacific wood
husband at that pIace' having 50 soid tse
property on Logan street to Hugh McGiv-
ern, a boilermaker.
Grand Rapids district of the Pere Mar
quette road, with headquarters at Grand
Taeday on his way to Ell P9sg Tex M
Agnew was formerly superintendent of the
eastern division of the Santa Fe.
Michael O'Donne1l, the Santa Fe fireman
from the Cottonwood division, who had
one foot badly mashed and sustained other
injuries in a wreck at Winfield several
weeks ago: is slowly recovering and is now
able to dispense e. with the plaster cast
while.
s E Busser. superintendent of Santa Fe
reading rooms. is seriously i'll at his homo |
at Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.. Busser was in
Topeka. some four weeks ago on his way |
to Point Richmond, where a library was
to be opened and at that time was unwell. |
He was formerly pastor of the Episcopal |
church at Emporia.
Frank Gutsch a spring maker was alb |
sent from his IRE tuesday it was sup |
posed because of the condition of his wife. |
T1n hoe hnnf1 in ho FOL for. fCxr
weeks. Mrs. Gutsch underwent an opera |
ton, but according to reports her recov- |
BILE that for this reason her husband was |
off Tuesday.
Work on the construction of new mod |
at Ration, n. NJ. All over the |
system the Santa F'e is putting in a style |
of coal chutes looking to having the cost |
of handling fuel cut down to a minimum |
of expenses. The fuel bill of the railroad |
is in the neighborhood of three million /
dollars annually.
Western roads are preparing to handle /
more soldier traffic in the near future. It |
ment to relieve large number of the men
pines by sending over others 'f from this
country and Cuba It is understood that
Cuba, will be sent direct to Manila
One of the new sheet steel boxes in
which torches, oil and waste are to be
engine room of the boiler shop and in a
day or two will be ready fer use. 1t is
-icleS are to be placed and it is probable
through which the oil may be drawn.
Christians should not dance, according
20 the decision reached by the members of |
he Personal Workers Bible class of the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday afternoon. |
Next Sunday the meeting will be held at
instead of at 8 o'clock the regular hour, !
n order that those attending may have an
opportunity to get to the First Presby- !
erian church for the mems meeting later |
n the day.
Brakeman Edward Hardness of Chanute |
vas run over by an incoming train while |
lie crossing the track there the other |
lay and one foot was so badly crushed |
hat he will probably lose it. He has been
or his injuries. Hardness has been par
icularly unfortunate since he entered rail-
Dad service, a few months ago having |
)een pinched between through a de-
ect of a drawhead, soon after he went to
work.
1t is understood that the ice cutting at
lake Contrary, ST. Joseph. Mo-, has been
lbandoned. The warm weather of the last
ew days has had DANA ging effect on
he crop in this part of the country, al
hough at Florence, where a large quanti-
Y was harvested last week it still remains
lmoSt unimpaired by sunshine and warm
Winds. Ice men have feeling that no
more will be stored this season; in fact
hey have been able to put away such
large quantity that they are Indifferent
the future
Among other arrivals in the scrap iron
ards Tuesday was that of a zinc statue