The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-25


an Northern There have been half
dozen besides these which that company
has got from the Santa Fe.
" e. Hodges, general purchasing
agent for the Santa Fe, was in Topeka
Tuesday.
Tests were being made Tuesday on the
Sans Bots coal from the Indian Territory
which was sent up here. by parties a short
time ago to determine its value a fuel
for steam engines SO 1ar the results are
satisfactory though nothing upon which
the value can be exactly determined has
yet been reached.
J. E. Larkin a switchman. is following
days. e-'s-''e '-@e- : - - = A
Martin Reardon. a foreman in the
freight ear sheds, laid off Tuesday to take
his baby to the doctor. The child has
been suffering several days, although it's
condition was not thought to be serious.
Albert Vail, a cabinet-maker, has ar
ranged to leave about July ! for Colorado
where he will remain two months or more
in the hope that his health may be i'm
proved. Denver and Colorado Springs Will
be his principal stopping places.
John Ruppel, a timer. laid off Tuesday
to attend the Masonic gathering at
Marysville-
ter, was put in over one of the pits in the
east erecting shop Tuesday afternoon, and
viii be given heavy repairs at the hands
of MitehelFs gang.
James Mullen. foreman of the stripping
gang in the motive department. has
has been attending the Populist conyen-
ton here.
Edward Thomas emerged from his ap-
premiership in the cabinet shop Monday
evening at six o'clock, after spending the
required four years. He entered the de-
partment in March 1896
The wife of Edward King, clerk in the
blacksmith shop has gone to Humboldt
for visit OF month. She will be Joined
in two weeks by her husband who will
take his regular summer vacation of two
weeks, the two returning to Topeka to-
gether
Blacksmith Duke Crawford has re-
sumed operations after losing two weeks
time.
William Beiler is a new blacksmith
helper; L.. G. Domino also went on IN
that department Tuesday as a hammer
boy.
William Rogers. boilermaker helper
who works on the night shift, has not
been in for short time, being kept at
home by Sickness.
sam MeHan of the boiler shop has sore
hands and is unable TO be on duty in
that department. He works nights
Fred Olsen, foreman of a gang of
lumber yard men, has been laying off
for a few days. John Wall has been sup
plying during his absence.
Water servicemen got the big armature
for the first of the power house dyna-
mos out of the car in which it was
shipped Tuesday
Carriages were being placed under the
large electric cranes of the new shop
Tuesday. Four to be used on one Of the
planned that the remainder will be here
by July /.
Two pits for the hot air plant of the
new shop are to be dug in the north end
of the building There are that number
in the south part and adjoining the en-
CINE pits.
Henry Crow distribution clerk in the
office Of General Storekeeper Hilton, Is
detained from his desk by stomach trou-
Bile. His condition is not serious
Harvey Haney. who for few weeks
has been a trucker laborer in the store
house. drew his time Tuesday in order
that he might take a better Job with the
Noeser storage company.
Frank Goodrich also was to have been
put on in the blacksrnithlng department
Tuesday. but after being hired for some
reason did not show mp
Matt Carl, a mill employe. took a fur
Tough Of two days beginning Tuesday IN
order that he might go with the Topeka
AIasons 10 MarysNile-
Challenges have been issued by the
Topeka boilermakeFS' baseball nine to the
the Leavenworth Maroons and to an Ar
gentfne aggregation, for game to be
played July 4. They have secured BIZ
lings and Halterman VINO We're with the
machinists in the -Atchison contest Sat
urday and the nine is being otherwise
strengthened They will cross sticks
The InaehiniSts. too, undaunted by the
defeat of Saturday are preparing to build
up their nine and get in shape for a NUM-
her of games soon There is much good
material in the machine shop for team
brought out and trained in team work.
Railroad men who run east of here say
that the harvest of wheat has been al
most completed. In the vicinity of
Choteau between Argentine and Holiday,
it is being stacked and threshers are at
work.
c. D McCauley. who for six years has
served the Santa Fe in the capacity of
craftsman in the car department. has
severed his connection with the company
and will leave for his home near Dodge
" Ia large
wheat farm. The vacancy created by his
withdrawal has not yet been filled.
r W. Thomas. engineer OF tests made a
hurried trip to Kansas City Tuesday, go
ing down on ia and returning on the Col
orado FLYER
e. E Banks of the air brake department
in the machine shop, has quit
Railroad men have experienced much
| difficulty recently in securing the labor
with which it was necessary 10 carry carry on .a
their work, in different ways. There is
such a demand for men right now that
| they are independent and can have about
what terms they ask, without their en-
/ plovers daring refuse them. This is par
] ticularlv true While the harvest season is
on. but after that closes it is predicted
/ nv those who have had experience. that
I the tables Will be turned and laborers will
/ be ready to take about what they can get
! It is thought that within two weeks
| those who have complained of a shortage
I of help. will be in a better position than
/ they are at present
Fort Madison, Ia. which is an impor-
tant division point on the Chicago extern
sion of the Santa Fe is pulling. for. the
/ branch of the Rock Island which it is
/ believed is to extend from St. Louis to
| Burlington. It is announced that the
! Rock island lately secured the Burlington,
! Cedar Rapids and Northern and it is this
which is to be used in connecting the two
/ points.
Two thousand freight cars have lately
/ been ordered by the Missouri Pacific, from
/ the American Car and Foundry com
| pany.
F. r. Frost, electrical engineer for the
| Santa Fe, returned on Tuesdays No. {
/ from San Francisco, Calf. where he has
| been on a tour inspecting the axle lighting
apparatus of the western lines OF the
road.
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