The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-14

pacity as far west as Albuquerque. N. NJ.
Dr. j. p Raster, chief surgeon at Topeka,
Cal.
There will be new frame depot in
ness within day or two, Agent Rouse ex-
pectIng to De able to get into his new 4,
structure now being completed is located
about 100 yards west of the site of the one
DESTROYED by fire some months ago At
some station and platform repairs
Harry and James Thomas members of
at Needles, Cal, have returned to thai
place after brief visit in Topeka with
nent in the union there, being correspond
ing secretary and one of the grievance
conferred with the officials of the com
pany-
! 1t has been announced that the shops
which the Pecos Valley and Northwestern
be moved to Amarillo Tex, although it
Is understood that the company viii still
place, which may mean as much as that
which is to be moved away. This line was
acquired by the Santa Ee only few
months ago.
| From Selgman to Hesperia- a distance
of $50 miles, the Santa Fe roadbed has
| dust which heretofore has been an objec-
ton to tourists taking the southern route
across the continent. 1t is thought that
weeks the conditions may be kept at best
for travellers. and in addition to laying the
dust the oil VIII serve sort OF preServ
alive to the ties
r. S. Wickersham, newly appointed
gineer of tests for the Santa Fre western
| lines at San Bernardino. Cal. is a grad
uate of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind.
there there he l entered the e Chicago and North
western shops at Chicago as a special ap-
prentice, and after rounding out the neces-
sary three years of that work. came to
Topeka, where he has been engaged on
certain tonnage statistics for number
William Dryden, who quit his job in the
| water service a short time ago to play ball
with a team west of here,h been max
ing a record. He plays in the box and
since beginning has won six games and on
the Fourth got ten dollars on the side for
| understood that he has received a hatter-
| ing offer from the Topeka Athletic Assoc
iation to come back here and play with
| their nine
1t has been decided that the Santa Fe
Reds, which were formerly made up en-
tirely of men from the boilermaking de-
partment shall be reorganfzed SO that the
| nine will be composed of the best players
! in every department Earl Petrie, who held
probably be their new leader. and it IS
used. combined with the opnortunitv 10
train a strong team can be put out
| this part of the country
Douglas Armstrong formerly a clerk in
the office of Auditor of Freight Receipts
the Congregational church in the Congo
| Free State. Africa Armstrong IS brother
of Mrs Thomas HafrSine of Oakland and
Mrs. William Often. 2g5 Van Buren, street
and wrote recently to his relatives here.
Although about under the equator, where
the temperature Is always what Arneri-
cans would consider high, he says he has
not suffered extremely from the heat and
he appears to be satisfied with the work
which he is doing amc1g the benighted
people of that far OF country He Is mar
| RED. his wife doing her part toward re-
forming the natives by organizing among
arts. The latest letter from him was
accompanied with half dozen photo
graphs of persons and scenes of that land.
and although written in the latter part OF
February. was not received in Topeka I'M
| til the early days of the present month
| One of the strikers at Needles, Cal,
writing back here says THE railroad
company has as high as Is engine failures
boxes on this division It has frequently
occurred since the strike took effect that
passenger locomotives died out on the
| desert. delaying trains. notwithstanding
to do the boiler work here, and the doping
| of engines with bran Chopped hemp.
wood shavings- plaster of paris and iron
borings- The locomotives continue to die
and the long line of dead ones on the
| sidetrack is Engineering Traffic Is becom-
| ing embarrassed now for lack of motive
power and this is only the dull season.
There is a busy time coming in a couple Of
months for the company Are they going
| to continue to pay lot of helpers. wood
choppers. cooks and sheemakers $50 a
day and board to ruin their locomotive
\ fre-boxes and meet the busy season IN
that condition rather than pay good boil
ermakers 81 a day to do first class work.
| The echo in business halls whispers No
but reasonable Everything looks good to
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