The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28
ABOUT RAILROAD People.

Instruction car 9s9O5 has gone to En-
pOria-
Oscar Dugan. a timer. has been sick
John Schmidt is a new helper in the
blacksmith shop.
Clyde Shaffer has been hired as a la
bOrer In the store department.
L 6. Stevens signal engineer, has re-
TUNED from trip to the Gulf.
John Griffith of the storehouse is
home from a brief visit at Fort Riley
Iron for two of the small furnaces in
the new blacksmith shop has been placed.
General Manager Nudge went to Chi
cago in special car 2l7 attached to No. ia
Friday.
John Caskey. q laborer in the freight
car sheds, is out because of an attack of
stomach trouble
Thomas A. Leonard of the sheds, is
working after an absence of ten days,
enforced by sickness.
John Wood. foreman of the truck work
7rs on fseight cars is playing to an en-
gagement of rheumatism
John Lowe, water service man who
lost the end of finger while on duty
lew days ago, is still out
Al Hodge. foreman of the upstairs pain
ters of the coach shop, is at his post after
being out a few days, sick
Timers are putting the guttering in
the angles between the ''saw-tOOth'' ga
bles of the new machine and boiler shop.
Machinist John SchneibeI dropped a
crOss-head pin on one of his feet the other
day putting him out of service for
short time
Cal. Alexander. boss of the boiler shop.
after dark was summoned home Friday
at the door.
Samuel AIcFaren. a switchman, has
been laying off several days. He viii
probably report in time for business the
first of the week.
". H. Stuart. of the Santa Fe offices.
left this afternoon for Los Angeles and
san francisco, Calf, where he will spend
his summer vacation.
James H. Sarver, who has been repair
ing santa Fe cars for less than month.
drew his check Friday and will seek EN-
ployment in other quarters.
Ira Henry, formerly a machinist in
these shops and since then with the Santa
working at the state insane asylum here.
Harry Lewis, a trucker in the store
house; will draw his time this evening and
viii leave for Independence " here he
viii follow the trade of lumber for his
father.
The little. office occupied by Master Car
Painter John Hartley and his clerk.
George Huron. has been renovated and
put in better shape. The cleaning took
place Friday.
Bruce Harmon, Ernest Wilcox and Har-
~ Adams, machinist apprentices, ready
to go out of their time We're up for quiz
Friday. Shop Superintendent Purcell con
Quoted the examination.
Joseph DONNIE, a laborer in AIullen's
stripping gang, dropped an eccentric blade
clipping the end off Friday afternoon He
retired from work temporarily.
Mrs. Philip Heery, wife of a spring shop
employe, has gone TO Council Grove to
visit the family of Edward Clark for a
short time Clark was in the machine
shop here until about a year ago.
Two of the weed burners crew are here.
one of them IS to get its machine repaired
and the other left its burner at yelling
ton where the supply of oil was ex-
hausted- It IS not known when they will
get out.
Dan Lane. a coach painter, left this
morning for Newton where he will join
the contingent going from that nOiuf
the picnic of the middle division en-
ployes being held in Arkansas City today.
of Topeka at the gathering.
Ben Johnson Jr. son of Ben Johnson,
superintendent OF machinery for the Mex
gone to that place to be with his father
The other members of the family con
template leaving Topeka for that city
in the course of three weeks.
Reports from the bedside of J. ". Mer-
gan, formerly foreman of the outside
work in the coach shop. indicate that lit
tie Improvement has taken place in his
condition He is barely able to talk in
a whisper and only a few friends are ad-
mitted to his presence
George Atkinson, engineer at the plan
ing mill, left Friday for Denver. Colo,
where his wife and daughter have been
ported as being sick. but it is not thought
that her condition is serious. James
Harrop is substituting during his leave of
absence.
Louis Roehrig. Sr., father of Louis and
Fred Roehrig Of Topeka shops is seri-
ously i'll at his home north Of Garfield
park. He has been unwen for several
months but lately his condition has be
come much aggravated, and another son,
Charles, who has been with a corps of
Union Pacific surveyors at WaIcott Wy
oming, has been telegraphed to come
! home.
Clarence Waldman, who Joined the
boiler shop force two weeks ago and went
on the baseball team from that depart
ment behind the bat, has returned to his
former duties as a nursery laborer. Valid
events at the Atchison picnic and car
ried away enough in prizes to pay him