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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1898
Page
2
Local notices show campaigns, council talk, and social items in Topeka with names such as Harry Richter, Dr S G Stewart, and A L Rankin. Reports mention a Santa Fe train, elections, legal actions, and civic events across a wide array of brief items and colorful commentary.
A garbled summary of urban happenings includes talks on literacy night at Sixth and Quincy, appointments and retirements in state offices, library and court notes, theater and performance mentions, and various local figures such as Dick Coyle, W. I Topping, and Major Shreve. The text references subway commissioners, a Santa Fe retirement, and community reports from Greenwood and Cherokee counties.
Circulars issued Oct 2 announce November 1 changes at Union Pacific. General superintendents for Kaneas and Colorado divisions to be reduced to superintendents. Brinkerhomt and Duel reassigned. Harris to oversee Kaneas division, with others shifting to fill Nebraska and Colorado posts. Wichita Industrial Commissioner Davis seeks Wichita manufacturing sites and wants details on suitable vacant buildings for potential Santa Fe industrial development. Railroad notes update shop activity, engine transfers, and personnel changes across lines.
Rock Island proposes delivering ready sod to Wichita to seed riverbank boulevards. Det. Cannow and the railroad's agents met the mayor and city engineer, offering Texas turf to cover the banks quickly, claiming a thick, grassed area will form with time.
Owing to increased business a new crew was formed and placed on the chain gate duty. Conductor Cush, brakemen Youre wed Burke, new workers like Alewinder and bollemaker helper re alexander join after a two month absence. First time in five quarters the boiler has returned from the shop. Several enginemen on the Newton division run out of miles, with moves affecting families toward Emporia and car loads to the west grid. The report notes watch orders and supply issues, plus a hospital ship morning follow up on a previous incident.
In Pratt Union reporting, a Santa Fe agent attempted to conduct outside business activities and was formally cautioned. The article notes the agent’s recent departure from the Santa Fe office at the location and a focus on financial matters involving Pratt.
Seventeen engines were laid up for the ash pit at 7 o clock. Operator Pearsail transferred to Emporia. Morgan of Atchison replaces him. Santa Fe work on the eastward line to begin soon with about a hundred workers. Conductor Crowder and Griffin return from lay offs. New platform and repaired passenger tracks at the depot. Carl Clark will leave Missouri Kansas Texas to become general traffic manager of the Great Northern by December.
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