The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-03

6OAC 10 4GAdS on q tour OF Inspection III
agent
Dewey Wood. member Of Neiswinter's
Monday evening and had not yet appeared
Wednesday.
Jacob spetter. and Henry Huett, appren-
tees in the boiler shop, have taken their
about year.
David Wizer, q coach truck. workman.
was out Wednesday changing his abiding
place. He has lately bought a. house and
lot on the north side.
Bert Nichols, a boilermalzer, resumed
work Wednesday morning after a lay of
of more than a week on account of the
untimely death of his mother.
Rev. DR.. H. L. Willett of Chicago, who
IS the leading attraction at the Kansas
Ministerial Institute of Christian Churches,
spoke this noon at the coach shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Arnold parents of
Walter Arnold. a shopInan, viii celebrate
their twenty-ifth wedding anniversary this
evening at the Sons of Herman hall.
Machinist John Nichols was off duty
Wednesday and Oscar Espelin was in his
place, owing to Espelin's machine being
disabled by a break which could not be
repaired at once.
Frank Schwartz, wiper in the round
house, who has been in the hospital two
weeks because OF appendicitis, has been
released and this morning expected to
draw his share of waste.
NJ J. Carpenter. president of the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois road. passed through
here Wednesday on his way home from
branch in his private car.
Edward Gillespie, who used to wipe in
the roundhouse at Argentine has removed
to Topeka and Wednesday went to work
as a helper He is a son-in-laW of Frank
Robinson foreman of that force.
Robert Huey, roundhouse machinist
Tor the Rock Island at Herington and for
merly employed in a similar capacity in
the south shop here, was around Wednes-
day He has been away for about a year.
William Benson, brother of Frank and
George Benson of the shops, and himself
formerly employed in the general offices.
has gone to housekeeping on East Sixth
ago.
It is understood that four more of the
new Pittsburg compounds have been re-
ceived at Fort Madison, Ia, and will be
three erected and broken into service
there.
Conductor R. H. Stockton, who has been
on duty for two months, part of which
time he spent visiting in Iowa has re-
turned here and Wednesday morning as
freight.
Joseph Myers, a car. repairer who has
! been IN the service of the company good
while, has moved from Salina to SOB Lee
land street He has been married only
two months, his wife remaining at Salina
until now
A. Merritt, car repairer in the sheds,
is laying of short time because of
sore finger which made it impossible for
MIN TO Follow his trade The member was
been effected.
William Evelsizer, day foreman at the
car shops power house, went out of SER
vice Tuesday with a splinter in his left
hand between the first and second fingers
and was unable to work Wednesday. Gus
Avs had his place
Mark symmes. son of P. R synmes.
/ has returned from Junction City, where
he has been working for a steel bridge
force was laid off.
Alexander voight is the new messenger
| boy at the office of Machine Shop Fore
man Miller Frank Ammel who for
months has held the place. has entered
| upon an apprenticeship IN the tool room
| OF that department
John Barnes. a machinist apprentice in
the south shop. who left Tuesday for Al
! buQuerQue. N. NJ stopped off on his way
long enough TO capture a bride at Hutch
trip to the west at once
J. G. Carlson. a blacksmith helper who
was compelled to lay off more than a week
the back Of the hand which broke one of
| the bones Of that member, has gone to
! Marquette for short visit.
Fred Batman. boilermaker. who left
| Topeka shops about a year ago and went
to San Bernardino, Cal, where he has
since been drawing company money, has
returned to this place. He is brother of
! John Batman of the same department
/ here.
Bert Gregory. who has been chief clerk
! TO Master Mechanic Player. went to Ar
g genuine Tn, Inls morning mo- 70 heIp starr the
I Mechanic Hamilton He VIII return in a
few days to take a clerkship in the shop
office.
Guy Sabin, clerk in the office of Su-
perlntendent of Transportation kOuns. has
place he was fortunate in securing a claim
/ last fall. He has been down there for a
few weeks experimenting the building of
a house.
Jacob Maze, who runs a drill press in
! the boiler shop has been missed from his
post for two days, being confined to his
| from a grain door falling and striking him
in the back 1t is not thought he is seri-
Ously hurt.
George S. Badders is running the writing
machine in the office of Shop Superinten-
He takes the vacancy created by the pro
motion of William Hanson to a similar
! perintendent.
Mullen's stripping gang is engaged in
dlsnlantllng two OLD style locomotives
the L. & S ". Besides. taking them to
pieces, the material is all 10 be weighed.
4 They are eght-Wheelers and have been
/ in the yards for several weeks.
Engine s24. the oil burner. went out Tues
day evening taking LOCO tons up Pauline
nave done. however, the results nave
not been satisfa Glory and the rotary
burner was being taken out Wednesday
to be replaced by one of the Booth type.
Addison Maxwell. who six months or
more has held cierkship in the store
Ia, has returned to Topeka and Wednes-
| eraI Sforekeeper Hilton. doing special
work, temporarily. He expects to remain.
Willard Stitt, who until the land drawing
/ contest Of last fail was boilermaker in
the roundhouse here, is in town arranging
to move his family to Fairbury. Neb.
where he is in the employ of the Rock
/ Island Stitt has disposed Of his holdings
in the new country and viii continue rail-
reading
Frank Kehoe, who quit the south shop
/ three months ago to take a position as at
tendant in the state insane asylum here,
! has returned to his former place. He was
/ to have been made director of the band
/ of that institution, but the necessary num-