The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-16

street gang, has drawn his time.
There were the usual lay-offs among the
afternoon. because the ghost walked
Jacob Maze went home from the boiler
making department Wednesday and may
miss considerable time before returning
/ Alexander Degant who withdrew from
| the service in the boiler shop the other
day, has gone to the storehouse laborers
Conductor Richard Wilson Joined the
crowd to Omaha which is 10 represent TO
peka in the Christian church convention
Mrs. R. A. Hoyle, the wife of a con
ductor well known among many Santa
Fe people here, is up from Denison Tex.
for a visit with relatives and friends
Adam Goettig and George Burghart, who
| labOrers for some time, have been shifted
over to the boiler shop for the present
Still there is nothing diminutive about
the stock business which the Santa Fe
is doing For some time the run each
night has amounted to about $50 car loads
Dr. F. Shaw. who is in charge of the
| Santa Fe hospital at Las Vegas, n. M
arrived for a short stay Wednesday, His
| wife, who accompanied him. went on east
Carpenters have completed the erection
of new tool house south of Fifth street
near the passenger station. In it the tools
| stored when not being used
Machinists Edward Sheets and Cyrus
Guthrie are responsible for locomotive O1Ef.
the st. Joseph passenger engine. being
equipped with new electric headlight Il
is one of the first of the smaller locomo-
/
Jacob Guffey, who for three years and
nine months has been employed in the
boiler shop, asked for his time Wednesday
and in the evening left for Kansas City
Thence he will so to Harrington, where
| he may enter the train service of the
Rock Island.
! has been missed from the shops for some
days, it is learned has been in the hos
operation. 1t was of such a nature that
he will probably be obliged to lose con-
siderable time
According to the plans of Contractor
| Carter it was calculated that the new
lavOr a tories which are being constructed
near the new boiler and machine shop
cept some finishings which can be put on
almost any time
There was an inspection party at the
shops Wednesday afternoon. Miss Clara
Mespelt, daughter of Foreman John Mes
pelt of the boilermakers in the east ard
south wings, and Miss Leah Saunders
made a tour of the plant. They found
matters running satisfactorily
Ben Mitchell, a trucker in the freight
for the east. accompanied by Mrs. Mitch
ell. He will visit his former home at Gin
cinnati o. and his wife will go to her rel
ativcs at New Liberty, Ind They will be
absent from the city several weeks.
Newt" Chilson, who has been putting
in some hard ne1s for the boilermakers
within the last few weeks, has turned in
his time. He was with the same depart
ment previously but gave it up to work
about the city. Chilson's wife, who was
dangerously i'll with typhoid fever for a
number of weeks, is better.
u. p. Ballou, who has been storekeeper
for the Rock Island at Trenton. Mo-, ar
rived in Topeka Wednesday and at once
was installed in the position of timekeeper,
Fred Gnyeat having resigned to take
| short rest. Gilyeat has been in the ser
| vice here only a short time but has been
| railroading constantly for some years and
/ wants a rest. r.
Relating to the visit Of Capt Jacques,
repre- sentative of the Solar Motor com
mechanical department this week, it may
be definitely SAID that the company will
watch experiments with one of the motors
at some point on the line TO be determined
later. There is location for such q test
at Los Angeles Cal, or at Ell Taso, Tex
Fire broke out in one of1the scrap metal
shacks north of the machine shop We'd
nesday night about 5; o cIoeks, The shops
| department quickly responded to the
alarm and in a short time had the blaze
| extinguished. The origin of the fire is
| to have been to the roof of the structure,
the extent of the damage being about
fifty dollars.
William Tracy. the polisher who about
| a week ago caught one hand in a bufing
| wheel at the plating room and had it dis
/ located and badly bruised, is making, sat
| isfactory Improvement Reports from the
hospital lead one to believe that if ne
! continues to get better he will be out be
clothes today for the first time since the
accident happened.
Henry Heise of the south machine shop
lost most of the flesh eff the end of the
first finger his right hand Just as the
l O'Clock whistle blew Wednesday, some
body, who was sitting on a table near
him. jerked one arm upon which he was
leaning, from under him. and the finger
| struck against piece of sharp sheet iron
and making an ugly wound; Heise may
be obliged to lose some time.
Engineer "Capry'' Sharp who pulls the
through passenger trains east of here. has
had a change of heart in the matter of
tiles Until within a recent time Sharp
has been one OF the Old Hickory. ten
wheel type of Democrats. but now he is to
be numbered with the Republicans. Ills
conversion; came about through the atti-
Considers President Roosevelt has taken
in the coal difficulties.
Fireman Lewis Laws. who for two years
and three months has been in the LOGON >
tive department of the Santa Fe. has
drawn his time and expects 70 leave To
peka in a short while Fl > went to Kan
sas City Wednesday evening, but later
plans TO go to San Luis Potosi Mexico,
whore he viii keep an engine hot on the
Mexican Central He believes there is an
opportunity for more rapid promotion
with the idea OF lettering himself
| 1t will be the Fred Harvey eating house
people who viii profit largely from ne
peka passenger depot. In the south end
of the structure the dining room will be
located and it vii. be CONSTRUCTED in ex-
posts will be in the main part of the room
heavy eye-beams running across and sup
81 DOTllDS the SupSISbA W W 1Nllie
: have been engaged some days excavatins
a basement pit Immediately under the sits
of this. which will be used for a storage
cellar.
Lawrence Bell of the brass corner has
, been elected to the captaincy of the de
! gree team of Irwin lodge 26G A o. u W.
taking the place of Edward MckieTna a.
e the position. having been a cadet at tbs
: State Agricultural college at Manhattan
for two years. He is a great favorite
among the members of the order and hi:
election is everywhere approved. Mckier
J nan formerly ran a boring mill in his
east shop. but quit here to so to the west
e ern grand division in charSe of q rail saw
which goes from one point to another.
A. G. Wells general manager for tn
e Wednesday morning in his private car, IS
and before leaving. about noon visited tn.
mechanical department and was shown