The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-02

enworth. where they are to do garrison
duty.
Al Roush. formerly of Emporia. but now
ain Al0sfaoefa0e' y NJ Is nome visiting
Mrs: D: Fry, matron at the depot. was
to attend to her duties.
Elmer Olinger. Santa Fe telegraph OPP
orator of this place,is to be married July 16
niger came here recently from Atchison-
E.. B. Garvin. chairman in the office of
Resident Engineer J. AZ Meade, left on
where he has been assigned to future
duty.
Another steam hammer for the black
250-pound machine. Three large electric
motors have also reached here from the
east
Louis Alsdorf and S. T. Wright have
been assigned to night duty in the boiler
shop and taking their places on the day
shift are Clayton budding and William D.
White.
Many. of the men in all departments
failed to appear in time for the whistle
boats Enough toe to 60 round. Most of I them
got in by noon
George R. Henderson, superintendent of
in Topeka Monday, returned to Chicago
that evening for conference with Third
Vice President Kendrick.
Meredith Shockley, who quit Job as la
borer IN the car shops a few weeks ago,
has returned to the employ of the COM
ing heater and gas equipment.
Fred Swanson, who left here a few
weeks ago to become clerk to the division
turned to Topeka. He was formerly clerk
in the freight car sheds here.
All the passenger locomotives which run
in and out of here are being gone over by
the painters and on receiving their sum-
mer renovation, are in presentable shape
Tor the big run Of vacation business which
the road handles.
Louis Barnett. member of Mullen's
locomotive stripping gang, allowed the end
feet Monday evening, breaking the last
two toes and incapacitating him from ser
vice for few days
Contractor Richardson who is erecting
be given the job Of building the addition
to the Emporia roundhouse.. 1t is thought
that he will begin soon.
Arthur Moore, Erie; R. H. Crozier, Bur-
lngton; and A. L. Fisher, Northwestern.
travelling passenger agents which made
Charles Nichols who quit repairing cars
Kansas City, where he thinks a Job on
the Union Pacific will show. up for him.
He expects to get either in the locomotive
or train department..
A Fogelquist, wood machinist who
month ago took lay off and went to the
work Fogelquist reports conditions on
the coast as being fiattering, there being
in the country.
c. c. Webb, relief agent who has his
Olathe to give H. L. Phillips the regular
man there an opportunity to take his
California for a brief outing.
Roy Dixon has succeeded to the position
of mailing clerk in the division offices,
having been messenger boy in the build
the place of j. <. Anderson, resigned.
Roy Bartlett, Of Carbonate; is to come
Dixon's promotion.
Fred Stikes, who used to work In the
air brake gang here, but WHO for a year
around the shops Tuesday morning and
d dec his Intention Of enrolling with
coming in this morning.
If Charles Wallace of the water service
makes the parachute leap at Garfield park
find a large number of water service en-
ployes in his audience. Wallace has been
a number of acrobatic stunts which he is
likely to exploit at any time.
Because Of the water which settled In
morning, considerable damage was done
and the proposition of putting men to
Of the earth walls were loosened by the
moisture and slid in, and the repair will
require considerable labor.
There was another bunch of new en-
ployes enrolled Tuesday. Among them
We're John Parkinson. machinist for the
water service. Joseph McMullen, GCICIr1eQ
Degant and Witus Wolf, laborers in the
machine shop; Charles L MARBLE. black
smith helper; Frank Patton and Jacob
Berberich, car sheds 1aborers.
Owen Callahan. member of the water
service and pipe filters force, went against
a serious reverse Tuesday morning The
rain of that day raised the water in the
cellar of his Crane street home so high
that 800 little chickens and a Williamgoat,
which were stored there, were drowned
Funeral services over the goat were to
have been held today.
Jerry Dustin, a son of Ben Dustin, who
formerly followed the boilermaking trade
in Topeka, is now with the United States
gunboat Wheeling in the harbor of Page
Page, Samoa Islands. He wrote to his
parents here recently and his description
of the trip and his surroundings required
that the letter be sent in three enve-
IODeS.
Frank Benson. a timer, left Tuesday
evening for Kent, O., where he is to look
after matters in connection with the man
ufacture of his patent switch lamp. Ben
son is the author of a lamp which while
burning for six days and nights contin-
uously, gives a better light, it is believed,
than any in this part of the country. 1t
is to be made by the Coffman- Megeath
company Of Franklin. Pa, with which
machinery of >the Santa Fe, is associated.
More than 1000 of these burners are in
use on the Santa F'e system and other
roads are investing heavily in them all the
time
In a grapevine special from Emporia
comes this intelligence which will doubt
less not only surprise but quite over
whelm the members Of the Topeka Santa