The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-09

ter. He was able to walk out In the yard
Gay or two ago. but immedaateiy went
The. wife of cy Burgett,. a machinist
mas started east on e vacation trip when =;
Huntington Ind. and will afterward go to
sister in Boston, Mass
power house has been received here from
Chicago. Two small six horse power YER
fical engines to be used With the fuel and
building have also arrived. One OF these
has been set up in the east d shop P to run run
rest of the machinery In that department
viii not haye to be kept in motion.
vice last month nas ra ed 70 scr
ing on Monday.
1t is expected that ]. E. Nissley will
speak at the coach shop Thursday noon.
Switchman Ben Williams was off duty
Tuesday and today, because of the death
of his little nephew.
G. w. Closson, fuel and ice contractor,
has been in Pueblo, Colo. a day or two
where the new gravity coal chute of the
company has been put in operation.
Albert VAIL and Michael Fleisch, cab
met makers, have gone to Denver, Colo,
to devote the time which they appro-
priated to themselves for regeneration
William Miller is a new hand trucking
in the storehouse.
A. p. Goodhue, some years ago gang
foreman in Topeka shops but now at the
F E Of the santa P sr s plant ft at
noon.
Another batch of employees papers were
made out in the office of Shop Superin-
tendent Purcell, Tuesday. as follows
Frank L. Ricketts,, machinist helper; JOS
eph G. Roettcher, timer; Vance Rice and
John Thompson and Isaac B. Anderson,
laborers in the scrap iron yard.
Andrew Meder. smith shop employe
who works after shutdown, passed his turn
Tuesday evening.
A. w. Moore and General J. Fl. Lyon.
for the Erie and Missouri Pacific roads.
r<aT-a fsc11 ars f60 roll off
Tuesday.
L. L. Collins, who for six years has
served the Santa F'e in positions of vary
ing degrees of trust here, has resigned his
place as general clerk to Division Superin-
tendent Mcclellan, and will leave at once
stenographer in the office of r. ]. Parker,
superintendent of the Colorado division.
Lew Collins numbers among his friends
most of the Topeka railroad people, who,
while regretting that he is. to make the
transfer. hope that he is to be the gamer
sidered the Oldest engineer on the system.
Funeral services over the body Of the
year Sd d5eS % Sf
held this afternoon at the Third Christian
church.
Initiation exercises were held by the To-
first of the week, six candidates being in
Quoted into the mysteries. Three were
land land men. One Of the Santa Fe fellows
had considerable difficulty in taking the
required degree because ne was DdlQ-
headed.
O'Dowd's steamshovel gang which has
| been assisting with the cutoff better
sent over to Neosho Rapids where the
| force will busy itself with further opera
tons of this class. There are two To-
comotives and crews with the outfit 1t
| is figured that the work on that part of
| the Santa Fe will consume all the time
longer.
Because of the derailment of II cars
| three or four of them loads. the remain
was called to woodward, Ok, Thursday
night and did not return to this point
on5 distances Of little mo4s than 20
miles: 1t was the nearest available wreck
| err, there being one at Arkansas City.
coming. After the wooden derrick was
a number of months has been used by
the water service department of the shops
nrs IN for bs
bic on the Southern Kansas division is
| supposed to have come about through
| was not q particularly bad smash, but
some of the equipment had to be de-
| stroyed
orders for cars in which potatoes are
| to be shipped are coming in on the rail-
| road officials at the rate of about thirty
said he counted IN one s train Il loads,
Tuesday. On account of this branch OF
the freight traffic it has been thought
stations of Wilder. Desota, and Turner,
these being located in the very heart OF
the potato producing region.
F. w. Strives, who helps in the boiler
| shop nights, has returned from short
visit to Gibbs, Mo. He raised his tools last
night.
| J. W. Bivins, sexton at the railroad Y.
M. c A, began his summer vacation
this morning and will be absent for the
peka, devoting most of his leisure time to
assisting with the tabernacle meetings
| the corner of Sixth avenue and Locust
| street Clarence Coleman, who used to
| have the job but who has been in the
tute for him.
Clarence Matthews. who used to
have job with the upholsterers. is a new
| water service employe.
Charles johnson, clerk in the office OF
Shops Superintendent Purcell, has return
ed from Axtell where he attended the h
Young Peoples society, an organization
covering the territory of Kansas and Mis-
| Carlson Of the tool room and Alfred
Olander from uptown. were also dele
gates to the meeting.
Pat Breen, night hag1nan at the Fifth
| street crossing of the Santa Fe in Atch-
son, has been brought to the Topeka hos
pital a very sick man. An operation may
| be necessary.
j. W. Baldwin, formerly roundhouse
| foreman for the Santa Fee at Beaumont
| Tex, was around Topeka shops the firs'
of the week
Elbridge c., Rust, whose death BY
| drowning off Galveston, Texswas record
| week, was a cousin of Engineer H. G
| Rust, running between Topeka and Mar
| celine, Mo- The two were together much
| while they lived in Michigan and Ohio al
though, they had not seen each other since n
1881, when Engineer Rust visited Dallas
| while he was in bathing, and at the same
time James N. Davis, night editor of the
Galveston News, who was with him, wa:
| drowned.
Ottawa, Kan, and Return $3.50 vii
| Santa Ee.