The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-06
ABOUT RAILRoAD PEOPLE.

Edwin Pallister of the blacksmith shop
was absent from work yesterday.
Fred Shaw of the boiler shop quit the
service of the company Wednesday.
William H. Marys of the blacksmith shop
quit the service of the company yesterday
Joseph Mason of the spring shop return
ed to work yesterday after a short lay off
Another car load of colored workmen
arrived yesterday for service at the shops
Joseph Horribly of the storehouse has
been off from work for the past two days.
blacksmith shop He was employed yes
terday.
John Walker. moulder in the brass foun-
dry. is absent from work on account of
Bert Kraft of the blacksmith shop re-
turned to work yesterday after short
absence.
Banks of the blacksmith shop returned
to work Wednesday after a weeks absence
due to sickness
Chair. 1910 was turned out of the
eral overhauling.
William Kistler of the blacksmith shop
returned to work yesterday after short
absence from the shop.
Mrs. Erma Michigan of Lake Charles La,
is visiting the family of Sherman Baugh-
man of the brass foundry.
Walker Cain of the Santa Fe depart
ment of tests has returned to Topeka from
short business trip to Chicago.
John Bauer of the brass foundry
weeks absence due to sickness.
John Person is a new employee of the
company. He began work this morning
helper in the blacksmith shop.
Richard Hoffman, teamster at the trans
fer tables, is laying off from work on ac-
count of one of his horses being lame.
Thomas Mooney is a new man in the
/ boiler shop. He was employed yesterday
and began work this morning a helper.
The meeting at the coach shop Friday
noon will be addressed by w Wright of
this city Special music has been arranged
for.
Charles Gish and George Kern of the
Santa Fe ticket auditing department were
absent from work yesterday on account of
sickness.
Archie McWhinney of the trimming gang
! in the paint shop quit the service of the
company yesterday. He has secured work
elsewhere.
There were two sections of Santa Fe
Westbound No yesterday The Santa
traffic to California.
Daniel Warren of the Santa Fe pattern
shop hop left EFT Yesterday for for san Francisco
ment of the G. A. R.
! Walter Mack of the blacksmith shop re-
turned to work yesterday after laying off
idence from 1414 East Sixth to 72S Lake
street.
| The baseball team in the ticket auditing
department at the Santa F'e general offices
have challenged the team at Wakarusa to
a game to be played at that point next
Saturday.
1 WllIldm clerk IN the Office OF the
foreman of the coach shop, has been abb
sent from work for the last few days on
account of sickness. He went home sick
Tuesday noon.
A gang of men were set to work yester-
day tearing off the roof of the sand house,
near the Santa Fe roundhouse. This build
| ing was burned a short time ago and
new roof is necessary.
W. H. Barnes, travelling passenger agent
for the Missouri Pacific railroad, with
headquarters in Kansas City, was in To-
peka yesterday and made his usual call
at the Santa Fe ticket office.
Mrs. John Atkinson, whose husband is
ia F'e, left on No. yesterday for Denver,
where she Will visit Tor a month with her
daughter Hattie. She was accompanied
by her daughter Sadie.
| Clarence Kistler, who runs the transfer
tables has recovered the COW which he
lost during the flood. Last Sunday friend
of his who lives in the vicinity of Tecum-
sch. found the COW about a mile east of
that point.
The general committee of the shop picnic
met Tuesday evening and received the re-
port of the arrangement committee, the
members of which went to St Joseph Sum
day and made final arrangements for the
picnic which will be held at that place
August %.
Grant Webster, statistical clerk in the
office of the store accountant, left yester-
day for Albuquerque, where he has Sc
cured a position in the office of Storekeep-
er Youngquist. He was accompanied by
his family John French succeeds him as
statistical clerk
Thomas E Prout. secretary of the local
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. left yesterday No
s for Lake Geneva, where he will attend
the National Bible conference. Mr.. Prout
will address the conference on the subject
of Shop Bible Classes He will return
home next week.
F. H. Evans. attorney for the st. Louis
! and Kansas City lines of the Rock Island
with headquarters in St. Louis. was in To-
peka yesterday on business for the cont
| pany. Mr.. Evans was formerly assistant
to the general attorney of the Rock Island
with headquarters in this city
| Gottfried Dahlman of the pattern shop,
who for the past six weeks has been suf-
! fering from a severe attack of typhoid fe-
YER has recovered from his sickness and
! is now visiting with his parents in ST. Jo-
seph. He will probably return to work
next week.
When Santa Fe westbound train No 5
passed through here yesterday she carried
| is cars, all packed with passengers. This
was one of the largest and most heavily
loaded trains that has ever gone through
here. If another car had been added to
the train it would have been doubtful
whether the engine could have moved it.