The Topeka state journal., 1902-08-25
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Of a fire.
Locomotive 5ss was placed over the last
pit in the south shop Saturday for gem
eral reDairs.
G. W. Closson. fuel and ice contractor
has returned from a brief business trip on
the Chicago division.
Charles Johnson a blacksmith left Sun
day. afternoon for Los Angeles, Cal, where !
he has a job in sight.
Hugh Casey, until last week a helper
to a Union Pacific masonry gang.
Clyde Shaffer storehouse trucker. has
drawn his time after term of service t
covering about three months time.
A. A. Vogel of the air brake department !
in the car shops took a lay off Saturday |
all day to attend the fusion rally.
J. NJ. Meade resident engineer, has been |
unable to attend to his office duties for |
day or two owing to a slight indisposi- |
ton.
shop was summoned to Iowa Saturday by |
a telegram announcing the death of his |
father.
Handcar carpenters are busy building
well drill derrick "a feet high to be used
by the company in Illinois. Another sc
feet in height will be constructed
Scion Keiffer of the wheel shop who has
been in the hospital some weeks with an
attack of typhoid fever, is doing satisfac-
torily according to reports this morning.
No. Of Sunday s for Los s angeles, &c Cal. d.
where he will Join Mrs. Robinson and baby
for a brief pleasure stay Oh the coast.
r. D. MEATS, IOf the ldSC l0 years agent
at Harveyville, has resigned that position
and September l will find him opening a
general merchandise store at that point.
Blair Anderson formerly clerk in the
company offices at Guthrie Ok. has been
promoted to a cierkship in the office of
Iowa.
Park Bigham, formerly of the Topeka
boiler shop, but now in the same depart
ment of the Missouri Pacific at Cypres
yards, spent Sunday in Topeka the guest
of friends
There will be an excursion to Topeka
next Sunday by the. Swedish society of
the Rock Island, leaving there at
a. m. and returning at 7:30 p m.
Engineer Robert Mears, who year ago
took a lay off to look after mining inter
ests in southern Missouri, has returned to
railroading and it was expected would go
out on his run west of here today.
Secretary T. E. Prout of the Railroad
Y NJ. C. A has not made satisfactory pro-
gress within the last few days. His con-
worse than formerly, only there is no I'M
provement.
Desmer Confer, 15-year-old son of Nath-
an Confer of the wheel shop, will be here
this week for fortnight with his father.
He is surgical student at Columbus, O..
and is paying his parents the first visit in
six years.
William D. Luke. a machinist who. was
included in the lay off, left today for Tren-
Roc Me wners M ne a W & go TO OF
local order of the International Association
of Maehinists.
Joseph Hornby. who has charge of the
cast iron in the storehouse, and Mrs Horn
by have gone to Springfield, Mo-, for a
vacation of ten days. Ben Adams is doing
packer, Is checking up in that depart
ment.
Edward Fuller. day tender of the Sec
ond street switch shanty, laid off Saturday
to see the pulling of the lanyard for the
fusion gun. Fuller is one of the strongest
Republieeansn m can - in Topeka, but s; he likes = to-
occasionally.
B. G. Baird, Frank Harris and Byron
E. Davis. machinists, who shared in the
for Ell Paso, Tex. Davis has job with
| the. Rock Island at Alamagordo N. NJ,
and the others are undetermined as to
where they will stop.
Joseph Heinisch and John Ruppel have
been put to work in the timing depart
| demand for these now. Heinisch has been
| handling tin exclusively and Ruppel is the
regular jacket man.
| There was a small freight wreck on the
| cut off Saturday night which nccessitated
| the Summoning of the Topeka wrecker. a
| freight car got off the rails between Card
| ner and Edgerton, and before tie train in
| which it was coupled could be stopped,
| considerable track was disturbed.
William Chapman, who has been assist
| ing the ash pan hangers, has decided to
! Join in the exodus to the Pacific coast,
and has notified the authorities of his in
| where he will work in the boiler shop of
| the company. He is busy packing his
| goods
Thomas Checksfie1d has been recruited
| for duty in the shops fire department. TwU
| more new men are to be put on in the
by the absence sdpRag Of Elmer ee Hunter and Hugh
| McGivern. Hunter and McGivern were
| laid off in the reduction of week ago.
Fireman Thomas Cloud, who for a long
time was confined in Topeka hospital with
| siege of typhoid fever has reported for
/ duty 1t has been a good many weeks
S-sr, he ont mt hi
/, covering from his Illness going for a brief
| visit to his former home near Indianapolis
Ind.
| Night Operator Trueblood will succeed
/ to the agency of the company at Barclay y
during the absence of I. B. Staples the
| regular man. who has been relieved IN
| definitely on account of poor health. Sta
| pies will go at once to the coast in the
| hope of finding a climate that will benef1:
| him.
Loss of time in the running of trains has
been noticeable for the last day two
heavy rains. Trains and from the west
| Sunday were indefinitely delayed, not or
that account, however. but so far could
Dodge el CITY, i a STUB STUB was sem throush ss +
| from Newton carrying the Gulf traffic
w J. Haggart. mill helper who had
i about S35 taken from his trousers pocket
| a week ago Saturday night, now believes
he and his family were chloroformed by
| the robber- He went to a physician and
! described the sensations of all the members
| the next day and he is now convinced
| that some such means was used in putting
| them in condition that they might not
1 awalen.
Pattern makers have not experienced any
scar city of work Because of the loss OF
| SO many patterns in the recent fire at the
/ Seaton foundry in Atchison- they have
have been kept up a schedule of ter
| hours day and six days week for some
time Reports indicate that the strin-
gency in the mechanical department bust
| ness caused by that fire is easing up a lit
| tie and the conditions will continue to i'm.
prove as the number of patterns is re
stored