The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-23


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department and was taken over by Ora
ham,
Ten new oil tanks have been set in To-
pekas yards within the last few days, the
/ in every way to the $50 which were COM
pleted several months ago Nothing has
been given out concerning the disposal of
/ them here, but It is supposed that they
| viii remain for some work to be done on
Mrs Thomas Boyes of Fuller came in
/ Wednesday evening from her home and
where she underwent an operation the
same day. She is mother of William Boyes
along in years after the operation the
/ surgeons offered much encouragement for
| her complete recovery.
/ shop machinists, has returned from a visit
OF little more than two weeks IN his for
ner home at Buffalo. N. z He found it a
/ pleasure to spend a short time at the scene
| of his work in other days, but is SO much
interested in the west that he was glad
! to get back to Topeka He took charge Of
the gang Thursday morning.
Annual inventory at the storehouse is
work, some of the floor gangs putting in
| several hours over time every day. It is
| shift of six or eight night clerks working
from 2. m to ESQ a. M vii be put on
/ to assist in handling the business The
JOB OF taking stock was just well started
/ Thursday.
| Ben Johnson, superintendent of machin-
! cry for the Mexican Central and for years
| connected with the mechanical department
| of the Santa Fe. last as engineer of tests,
| was around the shops Thursday. Super
intendent Johnson is on his way to New
York, where his company Is having con-
| siderable new equipment turned out
James Hogan. foreman Of the boiler
shop at Fort Madison, Ia, was in town
Thursday.
Brick masons completed the first tier of
the wall on the west side of the new ma
chine and boiler shop Thursday and We're
| by evening seaffolding was built and
carpenters We're already placing the win
structure is to be well provided with win
| dows, there being three sets of double
ones between each of the steel piers and
! numerous skylights in the roof.
Many Of the boys who went to the K. of
P. grand lodge at Wichita the first of the
| week began struggling in Thursday and
today nearly every member of the con-
| tingent had returned. They report excel
lent treatment. but the weather was such
/ that the uniform rank members could not
theV desired. The Topeka delegates are
confident that the k of P band Of this
place viii go to the san FRANCISCO IN
August.
Locomotive 0154 which pulls the Topeka
ST. Joseph passenger regularly, is taking a
lay off of a few days giving the mechanics
Anything more than the very hghtest
work can not be done while the engine is
making its regular trips, covering more more,
II high wheel Mcqueen, which
vas recently called in to get rel repairs pre-,
trains and 10, is taking its place.
G. P. Tllotson, formerly air brake in
speetor. in the field yard, who went to the
hospital several months ago. is now at the
Santa Fe sanitariun in Las Vegas. N M.
week ago today he says that the doctors,
as being badly affecfed but that there Is
hope for his recovery They have imposed
upon him as part penalty for his recovery
that he suck dozen raw eggs daily,which
in - TrrII q
There was small panic among the
clerks in the office of Shops Superinten-
dent Purcell Wednesday when the ugly
locking cloud came up from the west.
When the wind puffad up it caught q piece
shops and turned 1t over few times. One
of the deskmen happened to see it and
hastily. decided that the time to run had
come, put before ne got out OF the room
he saw his mistake and quiet was restored.
John Austin, who helps in the boiler
shop nights has been out brief time be
cause of sickness.
George E Ward. material Inspector, left
Thursday on No. 2 for Chicago. where he
will remain indefinitely looking over an
order of 16000 car wheels which the COM
pany placed some time ago. After they are
! turned out he will probably go up to De
troit, Mich. to see that 5000 wheels are
also delivered to the Santa Fse according to
Ward has made since his retirement to the
city hospital more than month ago with
smallpox. He was accompanied by Mrs
Ward
Boilermalzer Frank sanderson is direct
| ly responsible for the drOuth- being broken
in Kansas. Sanderson has a rich little
patch of ground east of town on which
he has been growing alfalfa, and for about
a week he has been quietly preparing tC
go forth and reap the first crop. We'd
: | nesday morning he declared his intentions
| of the same around the shops and that
evening the big rain came Thursday be
made the same talk, and that brought the
down pour of this morning. Sandersor
usually gets about five crops from his
meadow every year
Parftt's Burbackers, the boiler shop
baseball team, will cross sticks with tbs
North Topeka aggregation Saturday after
officers of the boiler shop nine are: Louis
Roehrig, manager. Bert Lewis. captain
Ernest Porter, treasurer. The line up is
as follows: Harry Henry, pitcher; Gus
Counter, catcher: George Real. first base
Bert Lewis, second base; Fred Austin
third base; John Butler, shortstop; John
Smith, left field; Arthur Roberts, center
field; Ernest Porter, right field; Paul
Pyetzh substitute.
Since the heavy rains of the last two
days came it has been difficult for the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. to accommodate
because the water came through the sec
ond floor of the ceiling and down into the
reading room and game parlors so that II
stood in puddles. All the meetings have
ing on the upper floor. The damp.
ness which however invaded the quarters
/ of the association in no way lessened the
fervOr of those who are interested in the
future of the Institution The canvass is
being pushed with all the energy that
some venture that within two weeks tbs
conditional sum named by President Rip
ley in his donation vii be cleaned up.
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