The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-30


corpdrators are capitalists of Pawnee.
Perry, Jennings and Enid
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
r. V Wells of the cab department was
off duty Wednesday.
Machinist Walter Lyon is on duty after
a lay off of two days.
The fox lathe in the brass corner is off
for a light overhauling-
Adolph Raab, a blacksmith helper, has
been off day or two
r. Schaffer of the water service has been
out two days this week
James White, a coach painter, is in his
place after a brief lay Off
Conductor George Speer is resting from
the coal run for few days.
P L Brown of the blacksmith shop did
not ring in Wednesday morning.
Fireman John Allen, who has been out
brief lay off, is at work again.
Louis Spendlove, an apprentice in the
boiler shop, has been out day or two.
James Kelly of the blacksmithing de-
partment has been out two days with the
James Wallace of the east shop went
! out Monday with cold and has been of
since.
Frank Gutsch, a springmaker, lost We'd
| nesday on account of the serious Illness OF
Victor Bloomuuist, a scrap iron worker,
took sick Wednesday and was obliged to
go home.
Elmo Wilkinson, a helper in the black
smith shop. was absent from his work
| Wednesday.
Harry Hobson, lamp inspector has gone
to Ration. n. M, on business in connection
with signal work.
blacksmith shop, is off attending the bed
side of his sick wife.
Joseph Phillips day fire builder in the
roundhouse, who has been sick for week
or more, is still out
Construction of the new Santa Fe depot
at Bliss, Ok, has been begun by Contrac-
tor Carter of Lawrence.
Locomotive O122 an eight wheel Player,
which has been in for repairs, went out on
the Meriden track today
A: P Goodhue division foreman at En- IN
clerk was also with him.
l. w. Mcfarland, one of the boys work
ing in the tank room under Tom Bren-
nan. has lost two days this week.
John Langon, blacksmith who has
been out on account of tonSillt1S week
or more, is still unable to report for duty.
A. W. Smith. a south coach machinist
an absence lasting all the week until that
time.
John Eckerman, a blacksmith helper:
who lost two days this week because of
the sickness of his wife, is in his place
again.
Orville williams, a car repairer at Sixth
street has been absent from his place two
days because of the death of his grand
mother.
J. B. Davidson. a brass molder who has
been out several days because of an at
tack of heart trouble, is reported as being
Joseph Wonder of the wheel press in the
is at his place again.
Frank Gibler, a night hammersmith in
the blacksnith shop IS out Tor Two two nlgnss
we're attack of erysipelas-
Fred Keller, night engineer in the ma
and John Trays of the water service has
been supplying in his place.
c. A Ennis, blacksmith shop employe,
a piece of metal on one of his feet, cut
ting an ugly cash in the mstep.
- IL ,xr
who struck on the nose Monday by q
pin and it was thought at the time that
that member was broken, Is still of duty
The improvements on the building oc-
cupied by the offices of the mechanical de-
so for the next two months or such mat
ter.
1t will be a happy day for the fellows
weather when the shop plant is completed,
so that they can do business under shell
Mrs. George Ludington, whose funeral
was held Wednesday afternoon, was the
mother of Floyd Ludington, an employe
of the sheds, and Guy, of the general Of
fees.
Edwin Stone. a switchman who was in
souri, Pacific cars five or six weeks ago
while working at night, has reported for
duty.
Brakeman Robert Finnie. who runs on
the Topeka-Argentine local, is a son of
death s anu - =" '-' account - ms '|'-@-
Rio Grande Western baggage and eX-
press coach Sc, which was extensively. dis
figured in the collision near Coolidge ten
days ago, has been set in the coach shop
for repairs.
John Cooper, a boiler shop employee, who
has been tied up at his home in North
Topeka on account of a case of scarlet
fever is able to be out and will report for
duty the first of February.
Henry Deever a member of George Ell
lots gang at Sixth street yards went out
Wednesday afternoon with President Rip
ley's special car, 219, which was taken to
kansas City on train No. ia
Julius Kruttschnitt, fourth vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Southern
Pacific. passed through here in his private
car attached to train No. 1 Wednesday
He was on his way from Chicago to San
Francisco.
Byron Harvey, superintendent of the
Harvey eating houses along the Santa Fe,
was poisoned recently while in Califor-
mia by coming in contact with some three
leaf ivy, and had to be brought home to
LeaVenworth.
Francis Purl of the machine shop
scratched one of his fingers against the
emery wheel of a pin grinder Wednesday
and fOr a time was out of service. After
fainting away at the sight of the blood,
he was revived and went to work again
Seventeen feet of water stands in the
new steel tank under construction.
the inside Scaffolding upon which much of
the apparatus for doing the work resting
on that and rising as the water is turned
on after the completion of each course.
One hundred and fifty three-quarter-riv-
cts were driven in 80 minutes by the big