The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-03

engineer and fireman each a five, in rec
ognition of their good services, and es-
crew had Just come in from
short time before they were called to
take out the extra.
Wilson Barnett. a. member of the strip
ping gang, punched his card in Monday
morning after allowing it to rest about
three weeks. Barnett slipped and fell on
his wrist, breaking one Of the bones one
evening while getting out from his work
and since then has been giving it an OPP
portunity to heal.
Newton Ready, a wiper in the round
house. has decided that the Kansas wheat
working for the Santa Fe during the sum
mer would, and accordingly drew his
check Monday He will go to Wichita
to run traction engine during thu
threshing season.
William Crandall, a boilermaker. has
started to build hve-rOOm cottage near
Shorey. About month ago Crandall
was just finishing q house when one night
it was burned, supposedly by fire hends-
The last coat of paint was being put on
and within a week he would have been
occupying it.
Machinist H H Wolford who had a
job with the Santa Fe in Topeka until
few months ago. but who since that time
has been with the Katy at Parsons, was
around Monday. c. S. Perry another
him. The two have been hired and sent
to San Bernardino, Cal, for service
Charles Swanson, assistant foreman OF
household goods and will leave the 10th
or l2Ih Tor san BeFnaTQ1nO, Calf, Wher9
he is to become foreman of the car work
men. A A. Butterworth has been acting
in that capacity since the resignation OF
}. r. RenIn, several weeks ago
About fifty friends OF the family of
| Charles Swanson, assistant foreman Of
the car shops, gathered at the home, S12
/ Chestnut street, Saturday evening and
spent the time enjoyabIy- The gathering
/ was in honor of Miss Helen. the daughter,
family. Mr.. Swanson expects to leave
soon for San Bernardino, Calf
It is not thought that the injuries
! which Alexander Dalstrom, the brick
! layer who fell from scafold Monday
I afternoon, received, were serious. He
struck the small of his back across tim
| Der and flying pieces of lumber and brick
/ hit him about the face and arms, infiict-
/ ing painful wounds He was helpless
/ when removed from the scene of the acct
dent.
Two burners are being put in the first
furnace OF the new blacksmith snop-
| They are about the size of those used in
! locomotives. A car Of Beaumont oil was
/ showed in on the blacksmith shop track
/ Monday and VIII be unloaded in the new
! storage tank for consumption in that de-
/ partment. It's presence was not difficult
/ to detect, owing to the stencil which was
in the air in its vicinity.
E. H. Berry, assistant to Chief Chemist
/ Powers, has returned from a trip west
/ extending as far as Winslow Ariz. At
different points along the line Mr.. Berry
/ secured samples of water which the COM
pany uses and brought them back for the
! purpose OF analyzlng and II possible find
ing q way OF treating them so that the
! qualities in them by which the boilers OF
the locomotives are injured might be re-
moved
Members of the force of Resident Engi-
ner J. NJ. Meade have returned from a
weeks work in the vicinity of Fort I.eav-
enworth. where they have been making
a preliminary survey for a spur which
/ the Santa Fe cOntempiates building there
1t will be about 2z miles long if the
course as laid out last week is followed
and the plan is that the government shall
use it in transporting army supplies and
soldiers to that post.
Here is a string of names that were
added to the Santa Fe pay rolls Monday
as car shops iaborers Charles L. Todd
/ Ben Neibarger, Moses Banely, Alexander
| Newland, and Matthias Bender. In other
| departments there were: Robert H. San
| derson, blacksmith laborer; Jacob Schaf-
fer, machine shop labOrer; August Carl