The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-11

Byron Davis, a machinist who went out
o. service ssS1 a week ago today, when a piece
place again Monday.
This evening the Knights of the Pro-
and social at K of P. hall. corner of
Sixth and Quincy.
smithlng department, who had one foot
to work this morning
L. NJ. Hartley, day boilerwasher in the
roundhouse. showed up for work Monday
morning after several days sojourn in
Argentine, the guest of a daughter.
Thomas E. Carney. a. clerk in the store
house at Argentine and who previous to
has quit the employ of the company.
he Engineer d Harry Jones' who pulls No.
marked up on the off board for a day or
two. William Jones taking his turn.
| Conductor Reece deadheaded to Emporia
Sunday night to protect 112, the Enporia-
of Conductor Dahoney, the regular man.
been working on the bench. has been
transferred s5 to the gang and Harry Adams
| Alexander Graham, who for six months
has run bolt cutter in the wheel shop.
| shortly.
| out several days on account of sickness
| which has caused him to feel worse than
h he has felt in 25 years He is able to be
Baseball enthusiasm is on the rise
among the younger shopmen. Several
| groups have been spending the noon hour
! lately practicing getting hold of the
Charles Ginger, a cabinet maker. has
| returned from a visit of two days in Law
renee. He was accompanied home by his
wife. who preceded him to that place
| nearly week.
| Considerable curiosity was excited last
saaiL d1Tin by dry pipe in engine no
hole has been discovered through which
the steam escaped.
! civ hot
ton OF G. p I1lson, formerly air brake
Inspector m the 4eld yard was critical
throat trouble for two or three weeks.
A. B. Watcher, who. returned recently
sition under Division Storekeeper Bird
has gone to Axtell to visit a brother who
| is surgeon at that place.
Henry Miller, a scrap iron worker, who
has not been earning any Santa Fe money
0n of his tnass 1,,bic3 b s ~ "a tba ~
time, came in again Monday.
Osman Bates. who went to .Chanute a
week. ago Saturday to visit his mother
and brother. has returned, He was in
then.
Monday to entertain his brother, w. r.,
division superintendent of the Gulf lines
Tex, who came in on No. for a brief
of machinists- at Arkansas City, who was
recently scalded on both legs by plug
slowly recovering from the injuries in the
hospital here
Arthur Thompson formerly trucker in
the, storehouse, has quit that department.
and Monday went to work in Hammond's |
gang on the new shop. Thompson was en-
ployed during the summer Layne's |
painting force.
Nicholas SPAIN. sweeper in the
Monday afternoon by a tap dropping fast |
and warm from the top of a locomotive, |
slight liberation resulting. He will prob |
ably not be obliged to lay OIL
1t is understood that the widow of the |
his death under a refrigerator car at the |
Fourth street crossing few weeks ago,
has received damages to the amount of |
five thousand dollars.
Railroad boys who have been out along
the stream in search of water fowl re-
of ducks this season. Two weeks ago it
Marais des Cygnes and Cottonwood
Edward Bresset is one of the proudest
men in the mill over the contemplated re-
considerable new machinery has been de +
cided upon for that department. but will
probably not be placed for several weeks.
William Snyder, formerly a machinist
here; but who left two, years ago to take
at Fort Scott and later went to Albuquer-
que, N. M, to take gang foremanship
Mexico.
The wife of William wissman a timer,
daughter. Mrs LIZZIE Pears. on the way
to her home in Washington, D. C. Mrs
previous to which she spent short time
in Denver
store department and himself a former
employee of General Storekeeper Hilton
been attending the State university, Sun
day evening, and will remain. here until he
RECEIVERS from a severe cold
William Hahn, a member of Hammond's
steel gang working on the new shop.
% a fT0 artn of ene spya 5df
one wrist 50 badly that he was unable to
T b. ose days.
J. B. Davidson. a brass molder, came in
mndbay afteT WAS an obged o l ef a o
on account of sickness, and later went to
With to the estate Of deceased
brother.
Next week the Eleventh United States
to Rico, will pass through over the Santa
Fe bound for the Philippines, This morn
listed at Washington d. c.. was sched-
uled to go west for San Francisco.
Col IF P ee snd y Santa sid Mts
headduarters at Galveston. Tex, passed
ggch was astaehed tn Ri 6ound
train No. 5. Vice President Polk went to
Chicago the middle of last week
Max Bartimus. foreman of a gang of
machinists in the shops at San Bernar-
i IS returning turn M from Hn'io Bu Es Mich
ness of his father Bartimus had a job
ago.
one hundred volumes of fiction history.
travel and biography comprise one of the
most valuable additions to the Railroad
Y. NJ. c. A. which has been made recent
ly. They are contained in solid oak case,
the whole being the gift of the Warfield-
Bartlett Advertising company of Kansas
City.
Three cars bearing Gates excursionists
who went to the City of Mexico a few |
weeks. along with large party. but who
did not care to spend further time taking
in the sights and climate of California |
were attached to the rear of No. Mon
day evening.
Machinist Leo Gabler laid off Monday
afternoon to superintend a job of paper