The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-11

seriously sick with malaria fever. but is
improving now.
Coaches 1924, 524 and $40 were run into the
coach shop Monday, where they will re-
repairs.
Thomas L. King. city ticket and passen-
quarters in this city. has returned from a
short pleasure trip to Denver and other
Colorado points
city for few days with his father, NJ.
Gragg- Mr.. Gragg is a brother-in-law of
John Arthur, formerly employed in the
Santa Fe storehouse.
G. F. Wettling of the store accountants
office left Saturday for the west where
he will spend his two weeks vacation. He
will visit points in Colorado and also sew
eral other western states
John Crawford. handy man in the Santa
pany yesterday Crawford was an old
employe of the Santa Fe and was we'll
known by nearly all of the shopmen.
William Reddy began work yesterday as
boilermaker in the Santa Fe boiler shop
Reddy was formerly employed here but
has lately been foreman in the boiler shop
at Argentine.
A. II. Lyons, William NJ. Stevenson J.
A MeCaffrey and ]. B. Alderman are all
new helpers in the Santa F'e boiler shop.
Ihey began work today. Alderman was
formerly employed in the blacksmith shop.
Vestibuled chair car No. 1868 was turned
out of the paint shop Monday for service
on the road after receiving a general over
hauling in both the paint and the coach
shops. The car has been at the shops for
about month.
C. A. Reece, extra freight conductor for
the Santa Fe, has returned from Usage
City. where he has been relieving Conduc-
tor Shaffer for month. Shaffer has been
absent from work on account of the death
of his mother
Robert McLeish, William McCarty, Lew
and A. E. Busy are all new men in the
Santa Fe water service They began work
yesterday: Busy is former water service
man. This is not his first experience.
l.. ]. Bricker, travelling passenger agent
for the Burlington, and A. L. Fisher, who
serves the Northwestern in the same ca
pacity, were both in the city yesterday
and made their usual calls at the Santa Fe
ticket office.
The men who have been working on the
grading for the new trackage in the Rock
Island yards at Herington have COM
pleted that part of the work and all that
now remains to be done is the laying of
the track This viii be commenced at once
J. E. Burge of the office of c. T. Nc
Glellan, division Superintendent for the
santa re, is visiting his wife in Pueblo
summer with her mother. Mr. Burge will
return to Topeka the last of the week
Pullman private car Rocket" the car
made his record-breaking trip from Chi
cago to Los Angeles over the Santa Fe,
eastbound train No g. The car is on its
way back to Chicago.
George Ross, passenger conductor for the
Santa Fe on the st. Joseph run, is off for
several days on account of sickness in his
family. Mr.. Ross runs out of st. Joseph
where his home is located, but he is very
well known here on account of his being
here most of the time.
The Rock Island has just gotten out a
new map which shows the Rock Island,
Choctaw and Frisco as one system. When
one looks at the map he can hardly realize
the immense amount Of territory that is
covered by these consolidated lines. The
employees at the local passenger office of
the Rock Island are in possession of one
of these new maps
TO the national encampment at San Fran
cisco for the delegates from Kansas and
Oklahoma The train will start from To-
peka at l:2o p. m. just after No l pulls
out. Not many cars will leave here, but
at Enporia Newton and other Kansas
the Kansas and Oklahoma delegations.
1t was announced yesterday that D. H
Robinson. formerly chief dispatcher for
of the western Kansas division of the
Rock Island with headquarters at Her
ington. has been appointed tTainmaster of
the Colorado division. W. c. Bennington,
formerly trick dispatcher. succeeds Mr..
Robinson. as chief dispatcher at Herington
The appointments are effective at once.
The first of the five supply cars with
which the Santa Fe is to distribute store
house materials to all of the smaller sta
it direct from here as heretofore. has been
finished and is now standing in the yards
at the Santa Fe shops. The car VIII Dc
loaded in a few days and on August Z 1t
will start from Kansas City on its initial
trip If it proves to be success the other
four will be built Immediately.
While L. J. Bricker travelling passenger
agent for the Burlington. was in the city
yesterday he presented the employees OF
new map that road has Just gotten out for
advertising purposes. The map gives
complete diagram of every line west OF
shows every station and stopping point on
each line. 1t is a mighty convenient thing
to have around a ticket office
The general agent for the Santa Fe at
Denver, Col, is in receipt of letter which
he has forwarded to the general passenger
written by the representative of mining
company at Prescott, Ariz-, who announces
that vicinity and asks that the Santa Fe
take some action towards inducing miner?
to migrate to that country. He says that
about 500 thousand men can find en-
ployment there at wages ranging from
81 50 to $3.50 per day. This is a good
chance for men who are out of work and
mate in that vicinity is of the best and
according to reports the work is favorable
when compared with the work OF othef
mining districts.
The baseball team from the Santa Fe
ticket auditing department defeated the
team from the Hall Lithographing COM
pany in a game on the Lowman Hill
grounds Saturday afternoon At the END
of the game the score stood to l in IA
Vor Of The ticket auditors For the first
five innings of the game both teams play
ed exceptionally good ball and the score
stood / TO 0 in favor of the ticket audit
ors but in the sixth inning the ticket
auditors Fingered up and scored six times
They brought in another man in the eighth
inning. The photographers scored one in
the seventh inning. but even this was not
to their credit, for the score was made by
Frank Fuller. who formerly played with
the ticket auditors but who now works for
Hall The ticket auditors feel very proud
over their victory, which is one of a
long list of games which they have won
during the past season. They announce
themselves as being ready and willing TO
nlay any amateur team in the city.
An Iron Band on Baby's Neck.