Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-18
New Train Service
On The Santa Fs
Two Trains To Be Run on
The Grand Canyon Branch
The Big Ell Tovar Hotcl.

the Grand Canyon OF Arizona, the san.
Ia Fee will, commencing January %,
run two daily trains on the Grand
Canyon branch. instead OF one train as
heretofore.
Commencing on the same date. a
through Pullman will Inc attached to
the California limited for the canyon
and thence to California. The changes
are consequent upon the opening to-
day OF the FL Tovar, the new Santa
Fee hotel, at the Grand Canyon, costing
a quarter OF a million dollars.
According to the Santa Fee officials,
this marks a new era for the place
claimed to be the greatest scenic won
der Of the world.
FL Yovar Is located near the head
OF Bright Angel trail, and will ac-
commodate 800 guests. Every mod
ern luxury is provided, including
steam heat. electric lights, private
baths, private dining rooms, roof gar
dens, music and a solarium. The
building resembles a big club house.
The architecture is rustic pine logs
and native boulders being utilized. Ad-
jacent is a stone-adobe structure, ex-
actly reproducing one Of the most
unique dwellings Of the Hopi Indians.
In this picturesque structure will live
several families of Hopi weavers and
potters plying their handicraft.
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Dispatcher Carson's Sad Case.
J. s. Carson, formerly M Of the
best known train dispatchers on the
Santa Fe system In California, has
been found to be insane before Judge
Wilbur at San Bernardino and he has
been sent to the state asylum for the
insane at Stockton. Overwork at his
post and sudden business reverse
when his health began to decline are
the causes of his present condition,
which Is believed to be hopeless.
1t vas a sad story for the wife to
hear as she sat in the court room.
She wept bitterly as Carson rambled
on about his visions and the wealth
that was sure to be his soon. When
the Judge announced that Carson
would be sent to Stockton the faithful
Wife put her arms about her unfortu-
nate husband and tried to cheer him
through her tears.
"My husband had $500 left from his
business wreck" she said. "but we
have spent most of this in caring for
him at Sierra Madre villa, where he
has been treated for the last three
months in the hope that he might i'm.
prove. We really have no money
left concluded the wife.
Conductor Will Hurt left last night
for Caney, Kansas, on a visit to his
wife and child.
The 9S7, the worlds fair engine, ar
rived yesterday morning, and will be
put into service on this division.
Mrs. f. H. Shaffer. wife Of the pas
senger conductor, arrived from Ration
last evening to remain permanently.
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Engineer Rhodes and Fireman Fan
ming of Ration are being held here for
appearance at the investigation OF the
Tipton wreck,
Charles Forbes, a machinist EN-.
ployed in the local round house, has
quit his job and will return to Kan
sas City with his wife.
Lineman Henry yesterday doctor
ed" the telephones In the round house
office and now one car almost hear
himself think through the instruments.
Monday the board was filled with
the names of extra firemen, ready for
any emergency that might arise n
Yesterday not a single cognomen was
found thereon.
Fireman II. Fishburn Is hobbling
around with difficulty or ccoun OF
injuries sustained on the hip while
giving his thirsty engine some water
at a tank out on the road.
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Division Master Mechanic +. P.
Barnes came down from Ration last
night and has been in evidence at Div.
Supt. F. ]. Easley's office today at the
investigation of the Upton disaster.
Conductor Frank Smith and wife
returned from Ration last night. At
today's Investigation of the accident
81 Tiplon in which three precious II tes
were lost. he will tell the truth. the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth