The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-16


of surroundings until the floods abate-
Six hydrants are to be put in around the
new snops at points which Wi be declned
plant is to have the best of protection in
this resDect.
c. d. Clark has taken position as ste
nographer to Shops Superintendent Pur-
CELL He is a North Topeka resident but
at Dodge City
George SINNERS. night .yardmaster, will
take lay Of Of 60 days, beginning Thurs
mountains. His place will be filed by L.
G. Hammond.
Preparations are being made by the
ness into and Out. Of Rocky Ford, Col.
August and 2. the date of the old set
tiers reunion.
Claude Hewitt, an eastern division
brakeman, has been given a furlough of
sixty days and will leave at once with his
spend that time.
R. S. Wickersham. of the offices of the
mechanical department here, went to Chi
cago Tuesday evening for a stay of two
about the 18th inst 60 w.
Mrs. G.. P. ,Tilson and baby of this place
Mrs. Tilson's husband, who is confined in.
the company hospital there, seriously af-
fected with lung trouble.
william Porter member of the tank
gang gang now at Colorado fsss, Springs took ad-
expected to return west today.
William Allcock. former Santa Fe
with the Rock Island at Fairbury, Neb..
has been here for a few days. He used to
branch.
Conductor Dad Griffith has resumed
his old place as ticket puncher on the St.
out about three weeks inspecting the CON
dition of the Santa Fe hospitals from Fit.
Madison, Ia, to Albuquerque. N. M.
Surveys were being run Monday for the
lines of the new electric lighting plant It
is expected that all of Topeka yards will
and there will be illumination from the
power house as far up as the depot.
Emporiia Ia . shop baseball team tear went , up
in crossing bats with the nine from Cot
tonwood Falls. When the Emporia boys
of 10 to l in favor of the other fellows.
Irving Botkin. an Argentine fireman who
has been on duty with one of the cut off
day, his locomotive having broken
centric and it being necessary for the crew
to lay Off until repairs could be made.
Grant Webster, clerk in the office of
General Storekeeper Hilton, wife and son,
have gone to the mountains, Mr.. Webster
to remain two weeks and Mrs. Webster
and the others to stay month or longer.
ber a. preseraing plant Which IS rushed al
| most to death with orders. Railroads re-
| sity of using some sort of means which
| shall prolong the life of this part of the
material.
| Fireman Rogers. who has been running
| on the Eastern Oklahoma line of the San
| ia Fe. has been brought to Topeka hos
/ eye, inflicted by a fragment of steel blow
| ing into it. His headquarters have been
| at Guthrie.
| Charles Roehrig, the unfortunate young
! man who was reported as being seriously
scalded in Union. Pacific engine at
| his condition is not so dangerous as was
feared. It is understood that he is able
Four new milling machines from Hyde
! Park, Mass, arrived here Thursday. One
| of them will be placed in the brass cor
! other will be held for use in the new
plant. A fifth was shipped to San Bernar-
| dino, Cal, where it will be used.
| How would you like to be the ticket
| clerk at the Santa Fee depot? On an aver
| age of every three seconds there is tel
enougR S iaa n the s
on along the railroads east Of here.
James Crozier teamster at the car shops,
this a p week u On account Of ans acute attack
! of cholera morbus. His condition at times
has been Of D9t obn Fuord as
handling the horses during his lay Off
| The wife of K. Hanson of the planning
| for Albuquerque. N. NJ, where she will
visit for some time. A little later Hanson
! two Stopping there for short time and
| returning to Topeka together
If waycar 1913 comes up to the claims
Changes is reasona6ly Certain o. that ali
the cabooses of the road will be similarly
conductors on this part Of the system to
| observe closely the piece or equipment and
| see just how it does work.
| John Runyon, a cabinet maker who va
from trip to Apache. OK, Runyon says
| to big crops, rain having fallen while he
was there. He says that there was no day
hot as was Tuesday in Topeka.
Otto Schroeder went to work in the
water service this morning. Schroeder is
ing the government in Cuba He bears
excellent letters showing qualifications for
electrical equipment Of the new shop.
Stations on the Santa Fe between To
without communication from the outside
world since the washout of last week
day evening. A made up train left Topeka
at p. m. carrying baggage and what few
ton. It returned Immediately.
During the last week a dozen stories
| lie prints of the west that the general Of
TopeSa to Kansas CITY cit - This isis is ali "a
quarters for lines west of the Missouri
are being transferred to that town, but
that the Santa Fe was to make any such
move has been suggested.
On the cover page of the Santa Fe, -
the organ of the railroad Y. NJ C. A
which appeared Tuesday, is an excellent
cut of the railroad Y NJ. c. A. building at
| Springfield, Mo-, erected at a cost OF
$4,000 The same sum is to be expended
upon the Topeka association home. There
is also a list of the Y. NJ C. A. buildings
for 1902L34 in all, ranging in cost from
5000 to $4,000 each. Those at Pittsburg,
Pa, and ST. Louis. Mo-. are larger than
the one which will be put up here.
Eastern division officials issued pro-
gramme to all concerned for today, an
nouncing that until the time of trains
and 6, arriving here at 2:30 and 4:30 O'Clock
respectively, there would be no change
from the schedule Of Tuesday. It is
thought that they will go over the I'm
ion Pacific from Topeka to Kansas City