The Topeka state journal., 1903-02-05
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE


Engineer William Rain Of the Santa Ee
IS OF duty on account of sickness
Lewis shannon Of the Santa Fe freight
house force, was On the sick list Wednes-
Arthur Moore travelling passenger agent
fer the Enc railroad. was q Iapelza visitor
NHdnesday-
Wheel Inspector VVsodrttf ST the santa
Fe went 70 Kansas CITY Wednesday On an
inspection trip
Mr.. ard Mrs A r Kafton Of WInzlow
Artz- are in the city AR kaft0u was for
meriy employed IN the Winstow shops.
Quite number Of engineers and fire.
men We're Up from Erlpcrl4 Tuesday 70 at
tend the funeral Of Engineer Byron Smith
The san Bernardino sun reports that
about +.5<4 car loads Of oranges and lemons
nave been shipped east on the Santa Re
and Southern Pacific.
FIrman Myers cf Emporia- who was in
1uref there short tine ago By a water
crane. IS IN Topeka for the purpose Of SCI
IiIng with the company
The southern Pacific reached an agree
ment last week. whereby the hremau or
The system VIII receive an increase Of be-
tween ard L per cent
1t is intInated that about 1000 cars cf
Fe this year The Rock Island figures on
anour the saEle amount
Andrew Linden Of the car sheds fell from
2 car On " 1len be was working Iuescas'
morning and mas not been 70 work since
L IS not known how badly he was hurt
Max Weber is a new man at the Santa
F'e shops He started 70 work NedElesdsls
81
& brother Of OFT Weber OF the same force
A Rayrnond-Ys " -hitcoEnb excursion passed
through Topeka over the santa F. at z
clock this morning en route Tor Ca4I1or-
MIA The train was an exceptionally large
una. being made Up Of eleven cars
Ralph 3EcNsal Of the II, X and T. shops
At Parsons KAN is visiting MS parents
here He = son Of EngIEeer McNeat
ard learned his trade IN the Santa Re ma
chime shops He reports all the Topeka
pecus to return TO Parsons SATURDAY.
Nearly all Of rhe Santa Fe trains from
the east were from one 10 four hours late
Wednesday TIE main reason Tor this was
the heavy traffic to California All of thu
trains from The east bearing the Deoule
rates Tuesday, arrived here yesterday vita
a liberal amount Of extra cars-all OF EEilc1
peka two and half hours Iare with Is
ears A good many Topeka people took
advantage Of the hCEeSeeksrS rates 10
f California Tuesday
The Albuquerque Journa1-D Democrat says
the shortage Of freight cars on the santa
Fe's western lines has been noted several
times but that effecttng the shipments of
oil has n3r yet been written or It = nov
+ ANNOUNCED BY the c07uostrlv that owing to
( the shortage Of tank cars It is ten days
behind on the delivery OF its own OIL while
il IS unable To furnish the Fullerton On
company whose oil II nauls- single csir-
Ene Transportation depar trLleHI Is neW o.
Ing beSieged by the producers VINO are
ANXIOUS . get 70 OF s sns1E e-l . rs - -
/ ket Owing % the famine lne Oh CON-
j panies Of this district are unable 20 III
their contracts
Quite a good deal Of excitement was
stirred uD at the santa E'e division Offices
yesterday afternoon a passenger from the
east On No was robbed OF SO by 4 pick
+ pocket It is thought thar the man took
. the money as the train was pulling cut II
Toueza and jurnped of some place be-
tween sixth and Tenth streets The train
was carrying Is cars. all heavily loaded.
and was running slowly between those
points The gentleman Who vas robbed
Immediately notified the conductor On dis
E COVERING that mis- money was gone and the
conductor tele5ra pl1e1 back To the VISION
afTics.s when the train reached Carbon
+ dale The only clue that the authQE1rias
now have is the tacr rnstl z man Win :
big sandy nCustache lefr iopeka on lAe
train and was missing at CarboudaIe- The
rit-- police and Santa F-e detectives were
immediately informed Of the matter and
are now working ou the case