The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-04

;dFafting room is sne f. be ba up baf after s an
fering from stomach trouble
William I; Puett who has been sh Tateniir f
Henry Wise, the day officer, who has
been on duty all over the yards
Eric Walgren, a machinist. went to Mar
celine on engine 1904 Friday for the pur-
pose of taking further indicator tests.
returned from brief visit with his
brother Charles IA who hNn is - maehInst in
William Maze, a boilermaker, who has
been railroading for 10 years. has bought
eodafg e viii Teman IN the ah06
James Crozier. teamster at the shops,
has been hopbiing lately beca use kate. ate.
Luckily the animal was not sharp shod.
Miss Deyina Boyd. a clerk in the office
Kouns, is spending her holiday vacation
with her aunt, Mrs. r. Cannon of Chi
cago.
Charles Wise. .H-year-old son of S. D.
Wise of the mill. is sick with what was
at first thought to be fever but what is
probably turning out to be a case of
mumps.
John Gunther of the machine shop is at
his place after an absence since Tues
out giving his beard a special sun treat
ment-
In addition to the 4,5oo box, stock, bal,
by the santa Fe, there will be built II
chair cars and 80 day coaches and 129 en-
gines.
John Carlstrom and Philip Miller, paint
ers, who have been working down stairs
for two weeks, have returned up stairs
to the department in charge of Louis
Stienrauf.
Dr. David Hopkins. who few years
here but who lately has been following
dentistry in Denver, returned to that
William Wood, who for the last eleven
months has been wiping here and watch
ing engines at Edgerton, quit OF his dsoi owa
what he will do.
G. w. Moves, superintendent of the San
gas. N. NJ, passed through Topeka Fri
day. He was on his way home and with
Cabinet makers are building a way
bill desk for the freight depot in Kansas
Is feet long and s feet wide and will ac-
commodate six people.
George Bradshaw. who for 20 years was
penter in the freight car sheds, is sick
at his home, 1888 Chandler street. He has
time.
Fireman Edward Edwards has returned
been visiting for two weeks. accompanied
by his family He fires for n G. Rust on
the through trains between here and Mar
celine. Mo.
Slotter No. g. which stands near the Of
fee of the machine shop. and. which for
a general overha uling. 1t has never been
moved from the stone which it occupied
until now.
Max Thymian, who runs the transfer
tables at the car shops, is slowly recov-
ering from an attack Of fever which has
He will not be able to resume work for
several weeks
ing of the membership committee of the
Railroad Y. NJ c. A The gathering will
tom, the members will eat supper in the
assembly hall.
''sea cow and instead of continuing
oil tendec it will be fitted up for coal
reer rs Of tbat locomotive as an oil burner.
for a while at least
There has been a scarcity of work
shops because of the fact that most Of
the cars are in use while the new coaches
lions in Illuminating apparatus.
William zarker, clerk in the office of
rday ach safR vent the tf of his
brother-in-law, Cyrus Lands. Lands
and had been sick for two years.
Hjalmer East. a brother of Fred East
of the blacksmith shop, sailed from Liv
COON, India, where he goes to assume mis-
sionary work among the wild tribe of ma
tives. He visited in Topeka last summer.
When the cold spell of a few weeks
ago came many of the gangs in the track
anG P peg asd nce fbaf has ana
after all are through with their holiday
vacations about the usual NUMBER Is HI
service again.
It has been, required of the, engineers
and firemen that they study the instruc
lions which Mr.. Reading of the Baldwin
works is making on the small working
model of the Vauclain compound locomo-
tive; The little. engine is ON exhibition
in the engineers reading ROOM
Beginning. Monday evening all the ed
vocational classes of the Railroad Y. NJ
c. A. which have been adjourned two
weeks on account of the holidays will be
resumed. The first to meet will be that
of electricity. Others will follow in reg
ular order the same as before Christmas.
NJ Smiley, formerly a carpenter in the
bridges and buildings department, but
who for a year or more has been trav,
cling salesman in the east, hts returned
to Topeka. He win probably be made
manag ger of local implement house
which a Council Bluffs, Ia, firm contem-
plates opening here.
Harry Reed, formerly a switchman for
the Santa Fe at Wichita. but lately in
train service for the Choctow, Oklahoma
and Gulf, lost his left hand at Perry, Ok.
few mornings ago. While helping make
up the train he slipped and fell, his wrist
striking. across the rail just in time for
the tank to pass over it. He is a rela-
tive of George Galletly of the roundhouse-