The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-01
and it is believed will be able to resume
his duties by the first of next week-pos-
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and it is believed will be able to resume
his duties by the first of next week-pos-
sibly before.
Edward Norline who runs the shears in
the smith shop and who has been out on
sick leave about week, is reported as
being in a serious condition. 1t is said he
has pneumonia
Otto Becker, a machinist who worked in
has not been in the Santa Fe employ for
some time, is expected to return here for
a job in q few days.
George Sheets has drawn his time from
the water service Sheets has distin-
guiShed himself all summer by pitching for
the shops baseball team and is man
that the nine can ill afford to lose.
Engine A3, which Monday morning was
a naked boiler, went out of the south shop
this morning complete locomotive ready
for trial trip: That is it was rebuilt in
Machinist ]. M. Covert of the east shop
and wife will leave next week for Chi
cago, where they will spend week and
after that will go to Milwaukee to rest for
| the remainder of a two weeks vacation
Engines As and So which were recently
dian Northern road, have been prepared
| for shipment to Winnipeg, Manitoba,
where they will be taken over by the
road.
working down in the field yard getting
| Orders ready for the new power house,
have been brought back to the shop. They
| have not finished, but viii be retained in
side for while.
! With compressed air as power the little
| hammer which was recently set up in the
new blacksmith shop was given a brief
trial Thursday morning, principally TO see
| how the valves would behave. Everything
! went satisfactorily.
Routes of c. p. Cass of st. Louis and
| Theodore A. Hedenahl of Denver, repre-
sentatives OF the Westinghouse Ar Brake
They were around the mechanical depart
| ment headquarters together.
There is unofficial rumor from La
l .T1pta the effect that locomotive yS7 the
largest in the world, which left Iops fssa
down an embankment with it.
Two months will probably be required
to complete the repairs ,t which the santa
disturbed by the Lake View flood An ex-
ira gang of workmen is now on duty there
| and will remain until the plans made are
executed.
Albert Blair, a machinist who was COM
pelled to lay off some days ago by an in
ausnst in the Shops The Doctor
it will be some weeks before he will be
permanently recovered but 1T may not be
the cause of any more loss of time.
Wilson Humphries, the Arkansas City
coal chute foreman who had three ribs
broken besides bruises and minor injuries,
is reported as doing nicely at the hos
pital. The weights of a pocket gave way,
allowing it to drop on him with the results
as Indicated
John Yearsley, who until a short time
Fe, is now slashing fires for the Frisco
| at Kansas City He has been in Topeka
a day or two, having been summoned here
by the dangerous illness of his grand.
| father, John F1intham-
Machfnist A. w. Smith is reported to bt
in a dangerous condition at his home eas
| of town near Deer creek He was under
week, and after returning home got out
, | too soon, and as consequence he ha!
: | suffered relapse, which is serious
Water service men are putting in a foul
inch wrought iron line for supplying tn,
boiler and machine shop with water. Tht
| pipe is laid on TOP of the second floor and
: at every hundred feet there is a branch
running down to the ground There ar.
| to be l6 fire hydrants inside of the struc
; ture.
Harley Hamilton. brother of Frank Ham
| in the freight offices of the Kansas Cit,
Southern at Kansas City, will arrive il
Topeka Saturday evening. accompanied b,
his wife, for visit of two or three days
He and Mrs Hamilton now thei
z way to Colorado to spend two weeks.
Charles R. Trowbridge. chief clerk in tn
office of w. E. Symons, mechanical super
intendent Of the Gulf lines at Cleburne
, Tex, has resigned that position to TAX
2 intendent of motive power and car depart
: ment for the Colorado and Southern a
Denver. No appointment Of a successo
has get been made
= Oscar Erickson and Fred Dickinson to
day entered their apprenticeship in tn
= brass corner under Foreman Gus Osman
Hereafter special apprentices are to b
. taken In this corner instead of puttfnl
the machine shops boys through it, q