The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-07

| couHIereO IN 1reSh water bodies, IS a
| 1eat that viii be watched with marked
interest in the railroad building world.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
John Price, jr-, has returned from Law
H. J.. Nazel has been hired as black
Maurice Sawyer of the bull PEN was
". H. Higgins has been put on as a
| boilermaler helper.
Ben Dustin, one of the tank room boys,
mas lost two days this week
1 August Erickson has been hired as a
/ helper in the blacksmith shop
of beeause Of seEknes a Tbrs MAS marked
Frank Hamilton. a boiIermaker appren-
| tice, is in again after an absence of two
r. s Stockwell, a storehouse packer. has
| been laying off a day or two on account OF
business matters
! o. Erickson blacksmith helper is Civ
| ing his attention exclusively to a case Of
humps for u few days.
! William Hercules. a blacksmith helper.
| has missed a day or two on account of the
death of his wife's father
Within the last three days there has
visitors around the shops.
w r. Barnett of the blacksmithing de-
partment, has been sick and unable to do
his work for a day or two
Ray Nearof the boiler shop, who has
been sick and unable to work since Sat
urday, is in his place again
Harry Sullivan, night hammersmith in
the blacksmith shop, was sick and unable
to come in Thursday night
Nachinist W. L. Jury and wife are n
tertaining Miss Joyce WATSON of Canon
City Col. who arrived here Wednesday.
General Superintendent Resseguie ar
rived in his special car 2l5 Wednesday
from a brief inspection trip over the west
end.
Brakeman Thomas Libby of the Atchi-
son has been off his car few days NOV
ing his household goods from 42s Chand-
Gus Osnan. foreman of the brass cor
ner, is building a kitchen and bathroom
addition to his home, 16 Circle street, Au-
burndale.
John Thomas. a bolt maker in the black
snithing department.. did not appear in
to be sick
John Benson, who a few months ago
worked at the machinist trade in Topeka
shops. is now with the Cotton Belt in East
St Louis, Ill
order on the hospital Tuesday evening and
did not appear when the whistle blew on
Wednesday morning
Lewis Huett, who has been in charge of
the iron rack at the storehouse. has quit
taken by Mr.. Collinson-
locomotive 352. ten wheel Manchester
which has been in Mitehells gang in the
to go on it's breaking-in trip
A R. Davis, foreman of the machine
da agp Sickness IN eha Ee wifi aie ea8 Ss' this week
for Pittsburg, Pa, on business
Bert Webb, maehin mis-; in in M at u.
Voting several DAYS attention to an ulce-
rated tooth, is in his place again.
Blacksmith c. A Kaiser, who has been
down with pneumonia several weeks, is
slowly getting better and Will probably be
ready to respond to roll call next week
Travelling Freight and Passenger Agent
Bowman of the Gulf. Beaumont and
Kansas City road, with headquarters at
Beaumont, Tex, was in Topeka Thursday.
Nicholas Sickinger.a member of the tank
room force, who for six weeks has not
turned a wheel on account of a complica-
ton OF diseases, has returned to his place
Charles Swanson. foreman of the west
side of the car sheds, will go to St Louis
sters which are being turned out for the
company
tween here and Emporia, viii leave at
a m. instead of at Z 80 a m as has been
leaving time at Emporia Will be instead
of S a m
Frank Hungate. a Santa Fe. train cap
lots Of friends ,s in Topeka is renewing aet
Wednesday he will go to Arkansas City
for visit with relatives.
-Four coaches of people who went to the
City. of Mexico recently on the Gates ex-
cursion will return next Monday afternoon
on No. 6. on their way home to Boston,
California part of the itinerary
Machinist Edward Saunders of the south
earned by collecting tobacco tags in for
light repairs. 1t has been in his posses
two serious failures have been marked up
against it
A Eversole is the name of a carpenter
doors in the sheds. He has been making
waycar repairs since December. previous
to which time he was employed in the
shops of the Fort Scott and Memphis at
Springfield. Mo.
Foreman Frank Monfort, who has been
at the head of the gang erecting the new
gravity coal chute at Argentine, has given
ton TO take a hand in the grade better
ments which are planned to be resumed
at the first opportunity
One of the frames for a Prairie passen-
ger locomotive which was broken and
smith shop. has been shipped back to Ft.
Madison. Ia. whence it came 1t was the
heaviest piece of this class that ever has
been handled by the force here.
There is a large membership in the
Ancient Order of Hibernians which is to
celebrate St Patricks day in the hall of
the Church of the Assumption on the ev-
ening of March Il. Speeches Will be made
by Col w H. Rossington, Rev Father
Hayden. and the school children will sing.
Reports around the car shops Thursday
spector in the field yard. who has been
suffering from throat and lung trouble for
ten days. was better. There seems TO be
ground for believing that in time he will
recover. His condition has been serious
for several days
1t is thought no serious results will come
from the accident which befell Elmer Bar
nett, a storehouse laoorer who had his
From the instep down the member was
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two or three weeks.
Eight hundred feet of blue grass sod
has been shipped from the east to Las
Vegas. n. NJ. to be used in fixing up the
park surrounding the new hotel which the
company is completing there. 1t is proba-
bic that more will be shipped for use in I
the grounds of the hotel which is also be- |
ing put up at Albuquerque
March 13 is the date upon which another
of the elegant Raymond-NS hitcomb excur- |
sions is scheduled to pass through Topeka |
on its way from the New England coast to |
Los Angeles The party IS made up at BOs- I
ton and besides visiting the shores of the |
Pacific the Santa Fe has promised to |
show them turn around the Grand Can
of Arizona
In the current number of the Railway |