The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-21
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Elmer Sorenson is running a punch
Arthur Sheldon, who for two weeks was
sick, is on duty.
Locomotive 2319 a Switcher went ont for
trial run Wednesday.
H. NJ. Nixon is doing some special wiring
for the electrical department here.
Engine of the LeavenWorth and Topeka
was held in Wednesday for light work.
Thomas Darlow is running slotter near
the office of Machine Shop Foreman Mil
Ter.
James Finnie, a water service pipe
filter has been laid up for some days with
sore foot
The wife and daughter of Machinist J.
L. Chatham have gone to Milwaukee, Wis.,
for a brief outing.
Brakeman H. H. Campbell has been
given run on trains 135 and 1873 of the
Lawrence branch.
f. r. Lacey. travelling passenger agent
for the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern, was in Topeka Wednesday.
The wife of John Leonard of the ma
chine shop has returned from a visit of
six weeks in Concordia and Clyde.
Ben Dreyer, who until the first of the
week was one of the east side. timers. has
gone to work in an uptown shop.
Francis Purl, who had job in the ma
chine shop until the recent reduction, left
wednesday afternoon for Chicago
Locomotive 013, small eight wheel San
ia Fe, has been turned out of the east
shop after receiving a general overhaul
ing.
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shop men who were cut off in the reduc-
ton, have gone to the Rock Island at Hor-
ton.
Machinist Chris Schaeffer, who used to
work nights, but who was unable to sleep
during the hot weather and laid off, has
gone on days.
machine here 1t has been out on the
road at number of points during the
Mrs. Myrtle Grubbs, who was taken to
Christ hospital Sunday, is reported to be
in satisfactory condition today. She is
i'll with typhoid fever.
Frank B1akemore, tool room keeper in
the east shop, has failed to appear within
ahs asd fst or pr two c ana it is therefore
Gilbert Slusher, track foreman in Topeka
yards, started on No. 5 of Wednesday for
Denver, accompanied by his wife and son.
His outing will last ten days.
Gus Clements who formerly worked in
the smith shop. drew transportation to San
Bernardino Wednesday. and at that time
planned to leave in a day or two for the
coast
| Robert Demuth. who for a month has
b bee t in the paint shop here e has
| Car company, where he was formerly en-
| gagged.
=! Silas Ford and William Hunt of the
| storehouse and Charles Sardou, another
Topeka lad. who went to the. Rockies ten
| days ago for an outing, are home and at
| work.
| William Puett day yard watchman has
been taken to the hospital with typhoid
fever. He has been in bed eight days
but his condition only recently has be-
| come serious.
| John Neyman, water service man, Sc
| cured Is new members for the Railroad Y.
M. c. A. in half a day recently. the rec
ord far is known for that length Of
time canvasSing.
| Dining car 140S, which is in the coach
shop for TRANSPORTATION into an elegant
| business car, will become the 223 and will
! be occupied by A. G. Wells, general man
ager of the Santa Fe coast lines.
Several big orders of mill stuff are be-
! ing worked up by that department here
| for the shops at Ration and La JEnta- Only
few. months ago some special orders
| came in from those points here.
/ o. Swanson, the Topeka contractor, who
had the job of erecting the new two story
Ill.,. has completed it and the Santa F>e
| force at that point has taken charge
| 1t is planned that the two 20 and Is
horse power electrical motors which are
| arrive in a day or two and that by the end
of the week they will be set up ready for
| use.
Fireman c. H. Tennyson, who for three
weeks has been in the east vacation,
has returned and has taken his place on
Wahl has been substituting in his alb
| Sence-
Addie Raybourn who used to have a job
months handling baggage for the Rock Is
land at Chickasha, l. T., has returned to
| Tocel-a.
| putting on a number of new brakemen
| within the coming few weeks. There is a
| great deal of stock and grain in sight
| which viii have to be moved before many
| moons.
Frank Coles, roundhouse machinist who
takes day off about every ten
years, was absent Wednesday. No one
could account for his having missed the
| time, but it is surmised that he was
sick.
Ten planish copper water tanks for use
in the. five hospitals of the Santa Fe COM
/ pany have been made by the tin depart
ment here They are ten gallons capacity
each and will contain the water which
| the surgeons use in operations.
Several trains which ordinarily go over
| the cut of were sent by way of Topeka
| Wednesday. owing to the wreck which oc-
| CURED at Zarah the night before. Train
| 20O.an east bound Southern Kansas freight
| was the one that went into the ditch
Fred Roehrig and Ernest Elsner, timers
| who have been in Topeka shops for long
| time, have quit and left today for Needles
Cal, where they are to work for the corr
pany. They are both excellent workmer
| and it means crippling. of the force te
lose them. They are leading members OF
| the Toueka Turner's, society and several