The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30

snop, mas been taEen from Ills home to tA0
fever. uF
Bert and Claude Shields OF these shops
left on No Monday for Pratt. where
their mother is seriously ill<wath fever.
G. w. Closson. fuel and ice contractor
for the Santa Fe, left Monday evening for
Chicago, going by way OF st. Joseph. Mo.
Dewey Wood. Martin Schultz and John
time.
Topeka shops. was up Monday from
by the Frisco.
Mrs. John Havens. Nife of a truck re-
Usage City, where she has been visiting
relatives for a fortnight.
Frank Kehoe, leader of the knights OF
the machine and boiler shops. has gone to
work in the store department
John Layne, who is in charge of the in
ured on putting to work about IL addi-
tional brush men this morning.
James Robertson. scale inspector for the
in the condition of his little son who has
been down with fever for some days.
There is scar city of laborers on the
in other regions where it would be possi-
bic to use laboring men. The pay is $3.50
day.
Frank Brooks, helper to Engine Inspec-
tor Manley. and his mother have returned
from visit of three weeks with friends
Wyo.
Scion Keiffer, wheel shop employee who
has been down with typhoid fever for .
good many weeks; is improying and If he
to leave the hospital.
Charles Kaiser, jr., son of Charles Kali
SER. ST., of these shops and himself one
is in town for a visit. He has been en-
ployed here number of times.
Frank Hammond expected to put his
gang of steel bridge worlSmen on the roof
trusses of the new power house this morn
ing they having Completed the framework
of the Pueblo, Col. freight shed.
shop for general repairs. kept a gang OF
machinists and helpers up all night put
ing the hxings to 1T. There here; IS big de-
Lee Senter. assistant foreman of the
storehouse, resumed his duties Monday. He
has been out of his place two weeks. bat
could not endure remaining away from To-
peka more than three or four days.
Michael Andes, a boiler shop assistant.
has been h kept at home few v, days S by sick
days last week he absorbed too much ice
water and has been out of service since
then.
Samuel Wise, a veteran locomotive engi-
neer of the Chicago extension, has taken
the turn which falls regularly. to George
Mass, where he will spend his annual va
cation.
Olin Brashear, who has been connected
as night depot master. SUPPLYING in a niace
of William Butler, who takes the place of
Pat Sherman Sherman is out for vaca-
ton.
John Mccoy. gang foreman in the store
house. has been enjoying a visit for a
few days from his sister and Lrother-fn-
law, Mr.. and Mrs H e. Hanna, and their
daughter, of Arkansas City. They re-
turned home Monday. ~
Ice was noticed on the depot platform
of f1a rhGfe f,rp
der, by Topeka man last Saturday morn
ing. The same man says that there have
been a number Of heavy frosts all over
that part of the state.
Upon samples of building brick tests
were being made Monday in the physical.
laboratory with view of determining that
Brick were used from different points
along the line from -Chillicothe, ILL.,. to
peka shops but, nov with, the Mexican
Central at Chihuahua, Mexico, was in;
while longer He wasF caller at the me-
chanical department Monday afternoon.
Floyd wettling, clerk in the office Of
General Storekeeper Hilton, is at his desk
after a lay or of about a week. His alb
sence was made necessary by wedding
in which he figured as one of the princi-
pals, notice of which was given last week.
Fireman Edward Ash is ready to report
at once after being absent some weeks at
tending the convention Of the b Of L. F.
credited delegate from the Topeka lodge,
although E. Powell was present for the
first part of the gathering.
Frank Pribble, ST.. member of the
Sixth street force is home from Parkers-
burg, w. Va, whittier he was summoned
more than a month ago by the serious i'll
ness of his mother. When he came away
she was enough better that she was able
to get around about her home.
Harry Richards, a special apprentice who
has been ON the Gulf lines of the Santa
Fe within the last two weeks, has returned
to Topeka Richards has been working
up catalogue of car brasses and made a
trip some months ago over the coast lines
of the Santa Fe for this purpose.
Joseph Nichols, an air brake repairer in
the car department. went to the hospital
Monday forenoon to have some bits of
steel taken from his right eye. Saturday
evening while or duty lot of iron rust
lodged in the member and stayed there I'M
til taken out by the hospital doctors