The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-04-05
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI.
nary Interest.

Beringer hall, an old landmark, was
destroyed by fire at Ration.
From Albuquerque south and east
fruit trees are in full bloom.
Jesse Tanner has been appointed
postmaster at Judson, New Mexico.
A new mail route will soon be es-
tablishod between Taos and Ute Park
The grand jury at Portales was dis
charged after reporting thirty-two true
bills. y
A new rural route from the Roswell
office will be established the first day
of June.
Navajo No. COZ is a new division of
the Order of Railroad Conductors, es-
tablished at Gallup.
The work of filling in and leveling
the park at the union station at Dem
ing has been completed.
The development of the famous Mo
gollon country by railroad cannot be
far distant, it is said.
Miss Lola Faulkner of Roswell sus-
tanned broken collar bone from
fall from her saddle horse.
Sixty men from Mexico who live at
Roswell have petitioned Madero for a
Mexican consul to be located at Ros'
well
The Second of the cables being
strung across the river at the Ele-
plant Butte dam site has been put in
place.
Horse thieves have recently been
operating in Lincoln county. Officers
are busy but no arrests have been
made.
A mass meeting protesting against
the Johnson-Flynn fight being held in
New Mexico was held in Belen re-
Gently.
A postoffice has been established at
Sugarite, Colfax county, Ernest T.
Underwood has been appointed post
master
The secretary of the interior has re-
stored to entry the lands withdrawn
under the Lake Triton project Guada-
lupe county.
Fred Mcdonald was taken to Gal
lup from Belen to answer the charge
of stealing $500 from the store of
George McAdams.
The comptroller of the currency has
extended the charter of the First Ma
tional Bank of Ration, Colfax county,
to March II, 1882.
Santos Aragon, laborer at the Ele-
plant Buttes, was struck by rock
that rolled down the hillside, and was
crushed to death.
Postmaster w. A. Woods of Eddy
county was held without bail to the
, grand jury for Eddy County for the
killing of James Donnelson.
From Elizabethtown comes the good
news that a new mining company has
been organized for 100000 and will
develop the Pay Era and Valley View
mining claims.
District Court for Curry county has
l convened at Clovis with Judge E. C
+ Abbott of Santa Fe, presiding as spe
T. cial judge under appointment of Chic
Justice Roberts.
j. M. Stark, mayor of the city o
Tucumcari, has issued proclamation
t setting Tuesday. April End, as tn,
r time for the election of city officer
t for the coming term.
The State Supreme Court is in SEES
!. sion with Judges Hanna, Roberts ant
- Parker on the bench. The court adopt
= ed new rules for the court that will g
= into effect on April 15.
o The New Mexico Salt Company a
: Estancia has completed arrangement
Y to begin hauling salt at once, and vii
e begin shipping in about a month
n They have orders for six or seven car
now on file.
The safe of w. F. Ritter at Lord:
;. burg, Grant county, was tapped b
burglars who obtained less than $40.
Il The sale of 10000 acres of the fiji
+ est yellow pine timber land in tn
l. West still standing has passed to
/ Denver concern. The land has bee
y purchased from the Indian agent a
Dulce, acting for the Jicarillas Apt
ches, and the Department of the II
terror at Washington.
L Harry Riede, the Aspen whlrlWin,
d decisively defeated Young Abe Atte
Il of Denver. at Albuquerque in har
g fought twenty-round bout. Both boy
4. agreed to call the bout draw If the
70 were on their feet at the end OF tn
l. twenty rounds, and it was on this ru