The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
ToPEKA sTATE JoURNAI. WEDNESDAY

0UJRNAL, "WEDNESDAY
surveyors to finish their part and two
months at least will elapse before the
trackmen Will complete the shifting of
the lines.
Pat Breen. flagman for the Santa Fe at
It's Fifth street crossing il Atchison. has
returned to that city after being in To
peka hospital about two weeks. He will
resume his place August l.
and Pat Lamb of the same department
Isaac Renshaw was in charge of double
duties during their absence.
Dispatches from Washington this morn
A. r. Davis, formerly general foreman of
the Santa Fe shops here, for a machine
for tracing piston ring bushings.
According to reports of a fireman who
came IN from the east Tuesday; there are
more rabbits in the country than usual
He says he counted Is within nine miles
while on his engine over in Missouri
Engine 256 was taken out Meriden way
for trial trip Tuesday morning. 1t Is
hauled with the intention of selling, but
which may yet see some service on this
road.
John Jacobs, a night heater on No.
furnace in the blacksmith shop, has been
laid up with a bad eye; caught red hot
spark in it. Casper Gettig has been subsd-
tuting during his absence.
Special car 217, which went to Glorieta
mountain last week bearing the family of
General Superintendent Nudge to the
scene of their annual outing. was dead
headed into Topeka Tuesday afternoon.
Locomotive OIL an eight wheel Player,
which pulls mixed train between Usage
and treatment at the hands of the shop
men, Engineer Thomas Porter of that run
is handling the 80 during its absence.
K C. Bean, clerk in the office of Divis-
ion Superintendent Mcclellan. is home from
a visit to his early abiding place at De-
catur. Ill. Bean says the corn in that
country is almost as big as it is in Kan
sas.
Gus Kahlfen, a member of the smith
now in a similar capacity with the Denver
and Rio Grande at Salida, Col, is visiting
Otto Larson of Topeka shops. He was
around to see some of the older men Tues
day.
Brakeman Percy Caps has returned
from a visit in Chicago. Caps will not
owing to an injured ankle which was
caused by jumping from his train while
on duty between here and Argentine two
months ago.
Grant Webster, price clerk in the office
Of General Storekeeper Hilton. is home
from two weeks vaeatlon spent in Col Iis
| family there was shortened by Mrs. Web
| ster being taken sick, necessitating her re-
to return to Topeka. ]. J. Jewett, her
| father, who accompanied them, was ex-
pected to arrive in Topeka today.
Lewis Hope and Frank Hart of the
freight sheds have gone to Chicago to in
| spect the building of the 100 refrigerator
cars which the Santa Fe has lately begun l
put his valise down. and when he went
| was obliged to go gleefully on his way
| without the satchel and the necessary
stock Of apparel which it contained.
Nothing could have been more timely for
| the Santa Fe water supply on the Chicago
| extension than the rains which have fallen
sprng su aaa
| which the company completed this year
| at Toluca. H.. is now filled and 1t will
| be several moons before any demands that
| the railroad will make can run II dry 1t
covers an area of Is acres and holds nearly
| IS, 100000 gallons of water.
NJ F. Hand, who inspects electrical
| lighting apparatus of passenger cars, is
home from stay of about a month on
Los Angeles. CAL, to supply, a vacancy
and after the regular man, who had been
Hana savs aaa to n
| Harry Townsend, another inspector of this
| place, is now out of town, having, gone
Tuesday afternoon to substitute while the
| man who usually does the work there
| takes a lay Off.
J. S. Ward, representative of the Phoe.
| nix Lubricator company, has been around
| the roundhouse within the last two days
| Ward was here some months ago and
placed one of the devices which he is in.
| PRODUCING on Prairie type locomotive 10V
| for trial purposes That was a four-feed
another a six-feed, is to be put on the 1000
and third will be placed on one of the
engines running out of Argentine The re-
suits of the experiments with this inven-
| ton have been satisfactory, SO lar as car
be learned.
John Isaacson, foreman OF the planning
mill. and Peter Miller, an employe of that
department. have recited the most fasci
mating story yet heard concerning the
bumper corn crop of this year. They say
they went to a field of maize which Isaac
son has east Of Tecumseh, the other day
and after hunting the patch all over fol
the shortest stalk settled % down on 1 on.
first ear was six feet one inch above the
ground and there were two others some
| where up above 1t.
Storehouse employees have started pa
per requesting Foreman Stewart that thai
department be closed Saturday in order
that the men may be given an opportu
nifty to go to the log rolling held by thu
Woodmen of Shawnee county at Garfield
park next Saturday. That order is very
| strongly represented in this particular de
partment but as the work there rarely
stops, the men have made this special plea
| 1t is hard for storehouSe man to get or
all day even on the Fourth of July.
Fred Gilyeat, who quit position in tn
general offices here some weeks ago u
neers and firemen at Las Vegas, n. M.
writes to relatives here that he is pleaset
with the place which he now holds. Gil
yeat reports the country. as being very dry
| there having been no rainfall until just re
to the story Of old residents Il is the long
est drouth that has been experienced fo
| 80 years. He says that one ranchman hat
flock of sheep that wera obliged to q
without water for four days and tina
water in that city sells for 10 cents gal
Ion.
Railroad men are coming in loaded dow
| with big corn stories. Thus far they hav'
launched out by expressing it in genera
terms but hereafter the immensely of tn
| probable crop will be expressed in a NOR
definite manner. An engineer who run
east of here says that about two mile
| west of CarroltOn, Mo-, farmer brok
up an old pasture last fall and planted i
to corn this spring. Now the stalks stant
he is ready to swear-ten feet above tn
| fence posts and in the evening when it i
quiet the peculiar odor arising from tn =,
| that it is almost sickening. Another en-
CINE driver says that the stories about tn
damage which the recent overflow of tn
aggerated- He has net been able to Sc