The Topeka state journal., 1902-03-14
eral solos and the male quartette will also


give some numbers
Solomon Joseph, news agent at the San
ia Fe depot, was taken to Stormont hos
acute attack of appendicitis. He passed a
good night last night and it is not known
that it will be necessary for him to
dergo an operation.
John O'Donnen, Cottonwood division
f1remen who We're recently released from
the hospital here. where he had been re-
ceiving treatment on ACCOUNT of an ankle
days longer Since getting out the injury
has been troubling him.
Work on the fourth hammer foundation
in the new blacksmith shop has been be-
gun, to be surmounted by the second of
the big big 1000 pound hammers: The hammer r
has been shipped from the factory at
Chambersburg, Pa.
boilermaking department of the Rock Is
nate in drawing a claim in the government
land lottery last summer, but sold his
holdings and Will continue to railroad.
AS a result of the recent rains which
fell on this part of the state, the Santa
contains six inches of water and the water
train which has been running between
It has been in service six months or there
aboutS-
several days on the. s24, the oil burner,
cutting a manhole into the combustion
an 9 H IN erder to fd aqna an @
changes. 1t may also be used as a means
of supplying air to the flame whenever
.Twenty-eight bridges on. the Chicago di-
vision are to be repaired rebuilt the
first thing this spring by the engineers.
There will be 10 stone arches three iron,
which the piling win be replaced by iron
pipes All of them will be short, the long
est only 152 feet long.
Thursday noon when the officials started
ident Kendrick, e, and 19S, @ Of 1 the Gulf, Colo.
rado and Santa e Fe: The 2l2 was vas sent out
at Newton for the SOUTH
Joseph w. Nude. who has. been working
Vice department. p % has been ' Transferred to
the drafting room of the machine shop
drawing of water air and steam line of
the Santa Fe in Topeka, the first that had
For use in the experiments of preserving
ties, the chemical department has received
preparation with which the wood is to be
treated can be forced into the cylinder
pressure type having maximum capac-
ity of 600 pounds to the square inch.
E. H. Berry. assistant to Chief Chemist
ter the. tests of paints to be used in the
hope of preserving the steel used in new
water tanks. For nearly year the de-
partment has been experimenting with
about a hundred different kinds of paint,
both at La Junta where the water con-
tains much alkali, and at Timpas, where
For use in the rail saw mill which the
Santa Fe is building at Newton the new
$50 horse power boiler that has been under
construction at Topeka shops has been
nearly completed. One of the longest
smokestacks that ever has been turned
made for it. being 100 feet long in length
and Sc inches in diameter The steel used
the rivets by means of which sections are
fastened together, are half inch.
Emporia and well known around Topeka
shops on account, of the prominent part
division points, is able to be at his post
after several months lay off because of a
baseban season is partly pespensbie for for
this and challenge from him to any of
mond may be looked for at any time.
T. s. Cafferty, roadmaster on the eastern
division, has received a letter from his
sixth infantry. now fighting the Tagals in
the Philippines. Young Cafferty got into
a thumb several months ago Then he
fell sick while on duty in southern Luzon
the the hosp hospital The g regiment % is 1 now wa de-
voting itself entirely to scouting trips into
100 insurgents. The rigors of the climate
are SO great that at times fully two-thirds
of the regiment are in such condition as
not to be classed as able-bodied men.
william Conway, a Cottonwood division
fireman need not feel that the fates are
especially against him because he was tied
up along with IS others in the quarantine
of the Ohio house, corner of Fifth and
boys from that district would have been
in his place had the sanitary officers been
placed a few hours earlier or even later
one man. who had just got off his engine,
went to the hotel for a late dinner, and
nd g95 5a fbsf n he he whe9 h9phasd fe maa
his stay protracted without the privilege
Of going ea and coming he he should D,ln depart I
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