The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-24

SMALLPOX.
-Four cars of blue grass sod were being
| department Wednesday. preparatory to be
| ing put down in the vacant ground around
that building.
George .Oppenheimer of the blacksmith
shop is at his place after an absence Of
| four or five days spent taking his family
to Fort Madison, Ia, for visit Of in
definite length.
Oscar Meyer. a iocksmith in the water
| service department, is a poultry enthusi-
/ asst and within the last few days has be-
gun the erection Of a chicken house at his
| home in town.
| or 9 cars, Wednesday had II, the extra
/ number being necessary to accommodate
/ meeting at Los Angeles.
Chai Wallace came into the south shop
" sefe sue T., morning after pelng absent
1 his face sustained while practieing base
balm during the noon hour.
| j. W Grubbs, who used to book evil
l doors at the city bastile. but who since
entered the service Of the Santa Fe as.
| tool room in the south shop.
One of the new. coaches similar to those
| winch are running between Topeka and st.
/ Joseph and Topeka and Kansas City, has
| been attached lately to trains 113 and ia
between Kansas City and Florence.
Owing to the way in which spring bust
| it is probable that number of new pack
ers Will be employed soon and that there
| will be a reimbursement of the force.
/ chanic for the Santa Fe at San Bernardino,
/ Cal, win retire from active railroad work
4 to his old home in Springfield H. He was
formerly in the employ of the Wabash
Robert Chapman of the car shops is out
/ Of business few days because of a draw
and breaking the third member. The flesh
| on two OF them was considerably lace
/ rated.
Edward King. order clerk in the black
/ smith shop. is excluded from his railroad
/ duties by the existence of a mild case of
4 n hn4 ckIaTT
| daughter being sick. He lives Klein
! shops are trying tosfix q date for a game
| of baseball The trouble now IS that it is
| Impossible for them TO get away from
work Saturdays in order to pull off the
c. L. Mason has been made. superinten-
dent of terminals at St. Joseph Mo, sue
ceeding A. P. Hall. who resigned lately
J to accept the position of trainmaster on
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe at Tenn
George T. Bond came in Wednesday
from Madison, m, where he has been
| which the Santa Fe is buying. His duties
also carried him as far east as Terre
Al the. brick work around the new 10000
! gallon oil tank from which the blacksmith
Snog WIZ qeT We lss supply, mas 4een m,
stands about three feet above the ground,
| was put on
Mrs. J. H. Shumate whose body was
| shipped Wednesday morning to Eskridge
was the mother of Claude Shumate Of the
two years and her end had been feared two
months or more.
Several of the new SO foot stock cars
which the American Car and Foundry
company is turning out for the Santa Fe,
were IN the yards Wednesday. There are
/ of both box and stock.
So far the tests as to the efficiency of
1 put under rails in Topeka yards. where the
demands would be severest, have given ex-
ments are only well begun.
c, T. Mcclellan, superintendent of the
! eastern division. left on No Wednesday
| body of Mrs. McLellan's mother. Mrs. S.
! G. Aadley, whose death was announced in
| the State Journal Wednesday.
George E. Ward. material inspector for
| the Santa Fe, who was taken, to the pest
4 house about a week ago with smallpox.
I was today released and Monday expects to
De ready Tor business AGAIN lie suffered
/ only a light attack of the disease.
The Union Pacific is building a new and
longer turn table on the site Of the old one
in North Topeka. That road has shared
mo+i7e mower and If is with MS in MIND
that it is making its turn table bigger.
H. w. Donelson and c. L. Seagraves
travelling passenger agents for the Santa
Fe, went to Kansas City Wednesday after
| to the starting of the club women's train
which leaves there at 2:45 this afternoon.
Engine $50. the second of the new tandem
! Pittsburg, Pa, tie arrive here lately. has
gone to Emporia for service west of there
The S58 preceded it a day. There are five
Of this class which will work out of that
point.
7 E. Prout general secretary Of the
! library of that institution a set of works
! on practical railrcading entitled Science
volumes are well bound legibly printed
and should do much good among the men
Albert Anderson. a brass polisher, has
4
] has gone to Denver Col. There is story
going around among his associates which
! connects his name with a matrimonial deal
out there and he may expect reception
/ from some Of the shop men when he gets
Carl PoHfka of the Santa Fe machine
/ shop at Ration, \. NJ. was around here
Dacn Of TINS place. ne IS on ms way 70
HAYS City and Aberdeen, s. p at each
1 time visiting before returning to his work
/ in the west.
-Four storehouse men. lovers Of song and
! who have good voices. have formed quar-
( tet and begun practicing. They are J. S.
/ Stanley. first bass; John Mccoy, second
Harmon. second tenor. One or two of them
have done considerable singing both in
/ quartets and choruses-
Several samples of new type of tank
spring have been received and will be put
| in place of the former style which have
with this. which has always proven the
weakest part of the spring. instead of it
! there being a casting in which fhe forr
pieces Of the spring rest.
Fred Batman who used to follow the
trade Of boilermaker in Topeka shops and
1 A. Q. Saunders. for about six months In
1 train service out of Argentine have gone
to Alamagordo N NJ, where they expect
| to get jobs with the Rock Island. It is
/ probable that they will find places In the
| department in which they have heretofore
worked
George ". Moves formerly superinten-
! dent of the Santa Fe wood preserving
4 years in the employ of the company, was
IN town Wednesday on his way to Carbon
! dale H. where he is to take the super
intendency Of a private institution Of this