The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-13

of the tender, striking one side heavily
ssif SO badly bad that he Vas neipiess.s n'''
The wife of H. E. Ray, clerk in the Of
flee of General Storekeeper Hilton, has
visit. - '''-'e1 's' ~ - ~ D''eA
It is hard to say just what the loss of
the Santa Fe in the Seaton foundry fire at
to. That vii, be II parffalIv Determined i1 bv
the delay which is occasiened by the loss
of the patterns. The value of the same in
the hundreds of dollars, owing to the fact
that the worth of one piece may be as
much s2o0
Another delay has come to the construc-
ton of the new power house chimney. OF
course the wrong kind of brick for it had
to arrive first and as all of the material
tinue the job until that which goes in the
lower part gets here: The blocks are 50
needed, giving the necessary curve and
slope to the chimney.
W H. Lilly, foreman for Frank Ham
mond, steel bridge builder, has been in
town for day or two on his way to In
dependence, where the gang is now busy
Lilly was seized with malarial fever. a
few weeks ago and was in Kansas City
hospital He is still too weak to take
charge Of his men. The workmen are re-
moving $50 foot span at Independence,
transferring it to Caney and putting in
new material.
E. w. Jarboe, who has charge of an
emery wheel in the blackSmIthlng depart
ment, was summoned to Hoisington Mon
day night by a telegram announcing the
band Is enf for G1 the Missouri Pacc al
that place. He and his wife left at once,
but later in the evening friends of the
family in Topeka had message saying
| that the woman had died at o'clock She
| left a family of three little children.
Clarence r. Naylor, who has been named
| superintendent of the western grand divis-
| ion, has been in the mechanical depart
ment at Topeka for seven years Until
a, IfSI,r of
| tendent here, he was in the office of John
Player. superintendent of machinery. Since
| Risteen. His rev duties commence at once
| He succeeds J. H. Beggs, who takes the
position Of chief clerk to w 2; e. sym s,,1s
| Colorado and Santa Fe lines.
| John Neyman and Fred Martin. who were
ment some two weeks agos to go fortf
| with the weed burner and scorch every
thing possible have and thn f ho
winds, they burned along the Scott Cit.
and Jetmors branches; in all distanc'
grass and weeds along the roads are ranl
| this year, but they do not believe it vii
til til n next summer nUn Crops Suffered consd
| erably from the hot winds of two days
| but there will be still lots of feed along
the parts of the system where the!
Fred East, heater in the smith shop
Tuesday afteEnoon received messdg
that his brother Hjalmer had passed a sue
| cessful operation for appendicitis at Cliff
| ton Springs, n. Y Hjalmer East will b
| remembered by a plumber of shopmen a
! having visited here about, a year ago an.
| having spoken one Thursday at the coacl
| shop. Afterward he left for Burmah, In
| dia. where he went into the mountains am
took up his residence as Christian mis-
sionary among some Of the wild. natiy
| tribes of that land. While there he sui
| fered an attack of appendicitis and afte
! temporarily recovering he set out TO
| America, arriving in New York August
! of months tourney He will
turn to the scene of his religious labor
| later.