The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-22


big toes and MASKING SO badly that ne
was unable to continue on duty.
Flooring on the east side upstairs of the
new boiler and machine shop is being laid.
Pine plank an inch and quarter thick is
being put down and on top of that a Course
OF inch maple viii be placed.
W. c. nette. Jr., formerly connected with
the Santa Fe here, has been made chief
clerk at the Emporia freight house He
goes to Baldwin to become relief agent.
J. w. Gibbons, foreman of the locomotive
painters, has gone to Oklahoma City to
join his wife. and sons who have been
there for a visit several weeks. He will re-
turn in time to resume business Monday.
David Holloway,the Branner street cross
tense heat of a few days ago and for a
time was in a serious condition, is improv-
ing and it Is said by, the first of next
duty.
Central branch business car No. 9, that
In which the dying ex-Chief Justice Horton
was returned to the Missouri Pacific at
ia Fee
Mrs. George Risen, wife of an ash pan
hanger, was summoned to GAINESVILLE O.,
Thursday by the critical illness of sister.
who is at the point of death with an at
tack of typhoid fever. She will not return
under two weeks.
Special car 222 had the motors for cleo
It was to have been taken outside for the
final touches. The plan is to send it away
ON NO . on SATURDAY morning. being due
in New York on the 9th inst.
1t was announced Thursday afternoon
that George D. McDill, international Sec
rotary of the Y. M c. A., win arrive from
mittee of the local association, will make
final decision on the plans for the new
building.
Stone is being hauled from Clare, a small
station on the cut off. where the grade
auctions are in progress. to Lake View.
the place where there was serious wash
out few weeks ago. 1t keeps two work
trains busy, one loading and the other
unloading material.
man at this place, has gone to. Ell Paso.
Tex, where he will probably enter the
and Santa Fe. His position here has been
assumed by H. S. Wettling.
Edward Fisch and Harry Miller, who
lately Joined the water service, drew their
time Thursday and have gone to ST. Joe,
Mo-, where FiSch has a. job in wooden
mill Both are native Germans and Miller
| ternational relief column in China during
| the Boxer difficulties
Considerable additional equipment for the
| days Parts of the travelling CRATE of the
power house are on the ground and large
| quantity of the other stuff which has come
| in is being stored in the condemned cars
on whatever side tracks are available.
J. L. Gillian, fuel clerk in the office of
| Superintendent Mcclellan, has closed the
| deal for the erection Of a fine 5000 mod
| ern dwelling at S2S Madison street. William
building it will be commenced immediately
| in order tahat it may be completed by No
vember l.
| Locomotive O1s9 of the G. c. and S. F.,
| which has been overhauled in these shops
| preparatory to delivery to the Orient, has
been pushed over to the Toundhou Tot for
Power ColIinson of that road was a caller
! at the shops and the mechanical depart
ment offices Thursday forenoon.
Harrison Euler and Thomas H. Hicks
| have enrolled as new brakemen this
division. Euler used to have. a job in the
| water service department at the shops. fol
| lowing the weed burner in a part Of its
meanderings over the system. and his
brother Joseph is now working under
| Foreman Schmittendorf
| Ben Williams, a switchman left town
| quietly Thursday morning with large
other articles needed for successful ex-
curSion trip. He followed an engine We'd
eager for rn the start at the Close Of his
| hours service. His camp is to be in the
| vicinity of Osawkie. seg+s ssT fsr
| With 20 years service behind him, Ed
| ward Doyle has quit the blackslnithing de-
| partment here and left today for San Ber-
| nardino, Cal. where in the shops he will
number to leave Topeka shops for the
coast, partially owing to the reduction in
| the force here. and as well as in the belief
| that he is to better his condition.
| Men are not crowding over Zach others
! necks to get into the section gangs on the
| Santa Fe south of here, which were re-
duced in numbers some weeks ago by
| those already employed refusing to stay
at the daily stipend which the company
| found, as a matter of fact, that it will be
no small matter to secure enough hands
| to carry on the work for some time longer
| or probably until the abundance of work
which now exists is decreased
been resumed. after. a lay off of about a
size brick arriving. Three cars came in
Thursday evening the brick layers had
made noticeable progress. 1t was intend
should be put on this morning. but the
| rain is a hindrance to the masons and
before a larger force viii be started
| Fred HUMPHREYS. formerly employed in
| the smith shop, but who was recalled to
this city from San Bernardino, Cal, by the
place, accompanied by his wife. Mrs: Elmo
! Wilkinson. the wife of another blacksmith
| shop employee formerly of Topeka, but
now of San Bernardino, went with Mr.. and
| Mrs. HUMPHREYS. HUMPHREYS helped on a
| fire while here, but since going west has
| been given full charge Of one in the spring
department.
David Hodgson, Waterman at the Sixth
| overcome by heat a few days ago and had
! to remain at home. left Thursday for EN-
R For feW He days He does not Know when
| he will be in shape to handle the flag, but
his long service with the company in the
| track department should enable him to be
| away a long time without there being any
| objection. His daughter Mrs Libbie Gil
| more who was sick with fever most of
| last summer, has again been taken ill
| within the last week and her condition
may be serious.
| W. R. Carter, who has been grabbing a
1 lot of Santa F,e contract jobs in this part
of the country, is preparing to commence
| the erection of the new power house here
and the Chanute depot about simultane-
ously the early part of next. week. Al
| ready he has force of workmen build
ing the four small fan houses-two on each
/ side of the new boiler and machine shop
| and as soon as they completed, pos
| sibIy before, the power plant will be start
| ed. 1t is difficult for the company to get
the mill stuff. door and window frames
before much can be done on the struc-
| ture.