The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-17

missed nina ana 1or a time ne was nucA
John NcAndrew. storehouse clerk, was
of5llgso TO remain away LE9n ms 1en
to a refractory tooth
Locomotive 200, a ten-whee1er, bearing
the Brooks. plate, was sent out OF M1tcn-
getting general repairs.
The wife of Machinist w. S. Mitchell isi
home from visit in Islkhart, Ind, and
spending the past month.
r. Congdon, foreman Of the blacksmith
shop, left Sunday for Cleburne and other
points in Texas, where he viii look after
company affairs for a few days.
Clerks in the office of Machine Shop
a swiftly revolving fan, rendering the room
much more comfortable than before.
William Evelsizer, who had to retire
temporarily from the mill boiler room,
where he had been firing until a few days
ago. has taken his former place again
Harry B. T1lotson, a nachinist who has
been away from the shops since the nrst
Of the year, has been given a number and
is now at a bench in the water service.
Charles Herboldsheiner Of the boiler
making department rung IN Monday morn
ing, after allowing his card weeks rest.
A sore eye was the cause of his absence.
General Manager Nudge General super
intendent Resseguie and Division Superin-
ing on an inspection of grade work on the
cut of.
W. S. Palmer. assistant division superin-
tendent for the Southern Pacific at Oak
land Pier, Cal, passed through Topeka
west bound Monday in a special car Of
that road
E E. Banks. who for a few weeks has
been employed in the air brake corner Of
the machine shop, has given up his place
with the Santa Fe and viii go to work Tor
an uptown firm
Original plans for the arrangement of
ton at Topeka shops and to be used by
Second Vice President Morton, are being
somewhat altered
Water service men have completed
driven well 50 feet deep in the north end of
the new blacksmith shop There will be
points in that building.
John Havens of the car shops has in
vested in g. pollparrot imported from Porto
and children uses it for rousing him from
his slumbers in the morning.
After being missed from his desk three
or four days. Joseph Ost, clerk in the office
of General Storekeeper Hilton, appeared
Monday. He and Mrs. Ost have been in
Fort Madison, Ia. for a short time.
Ernest Wilcox has finished his appren-
helping Earl Edgeworth on the driving
box job in Martins gang. Edwin DeCamp
has gone to the roundhouse for service
Charles Slusser, an air brake repairer in
O'Clock Monday forenoon and go home for
recovery from an ailment which seized
him after he took his block in the morn
ing.
George E. Ward of the mechanical labor
atory is home from Madison, Ill, where
car wheels. Mrs. Ward returned with
him, having spent part of the time IN
Chicago.
F. W Thomas, engineer of tests has re-
turned from a business trip to AlbuQuer-
que n NJ, and Denver Col. F. R. Frost,
electrical engineer. who went out with
him, continued to the coast, being in San
Francisco Monday.
W. B. Stokes. who holds a clerkship- in
the office of W. c. Garvey, received a
message Monday announcing the critical
Great Bend. He left on No. II Monday
night for that place.
8d1lard Leonard of Chase. who has been
the guest OF Assistant Car Shops Foreman
Neiswinter for several days, returned to
his home today. He returned from the
Philippines only recently, where he served
in the American army
John Schiller, a machinist helper, came
in Monday, having been out about a week
Marys to Miss Margaret Kresner of that
place. Mr.. and Mrs. Schiller are living at
128 North Chandler street
-Four or five trains will be necessary to
handle the shopmen on their annual ex-
cursion to Atehison next Saturday. and
placed at Hawthorne. It is to be arranged
that they will leave before Z a. m.
S. A Brown, who has been in the piping
gang of the water service that has been
putting down lines over the new shop dis
trict has been advanced to the job of
stationary fireman and will hereafter be
found at the car shops boiler room.
Santa Fe passenger. men had a busy day
rate to Chicago had Just gone into erect
A great many teachers who go east TO 90
summer SCHOOL WOIk4 tD9h advantage u
the opportunity to travel cheaply and went
Monday.
At the picnic given by the members of
Saturday the Baldhead baseball nine beat
the Kids by a score of Z to 4 Then to sat
and defeated the Reform School team by
a score of toe
A P. Benson who has been connected
with the ice department of the Santa Fe
for years, leaves today for Dover, I. T.,
where he will engage in business. He was
Swedish haii. which was ATTENDED BY 200
or more of the young men Of that ma
Locomotives 25S and 25s. ten wheel Bald
wins. which ten years ago were representa-
tives Of the heaviest motive power on the
Santa Fe, nave been sold 70 the CANADIAN
Northern road. a line operating in the 10
cality of Winnipeg, Manitoba: They are
now in the paint shop receiving fancy
gold lettering.
Reports about matters which arise in
the fife of railroad men sometimes involve
much red tape. The other day a rodman
in the engineering department broke q tape
line and IN making a statement to his SUI
periors. among other things. related how
that it went off with a loud explosion.
greatly alarming bystanders.
The wife of William Hunt of the store
house has arrived from visit IN Fe-ro,
Silver City. Deming and Albuquerque. n.
west by her niece. Miss. Nellie Rose, daugh-
ter of a New Mexico division engineer who
used to have run out of Topeka.
Mr. and Mrs. Osman Bates, Mr.. and
Mrs J. E. Larkin and Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Alexander spent a day the first Of the week
angling in the Shunganunga. near Tecum-
sch. They were able to see a great many
fish, but caught none. The cause assigned
is that the corzs used were of such recent
date that the fish could disting uish the
brands, and of course being temperate re-
fused to nibble-
Carpentering on the new machine and
boiler shop has been subjected to another
indefinite delay on account of the failure
of the material to arrive More than that,
the brick masons can not work in full
force unit the lumber men get started,
there being only light jobs for half dozen
or so for about day longer Parts Of the
window frames were omitted and it is i'm
possible for progress to be made until they
arrive
William Hays, night hammer driver in
the smith shop. will not appear for duty
any more until he has spent a short vaca-
ton at St. Thomas. Canada, the former
home of his wife Besides Mr.. and Mrs