The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-05-24
LlrrLE nav MEXICO IrEMe.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI.
nary Interest.

The Senate has passed the bill pro-
hibiting white slavery.
Farmers in the vicinity of Dexter
have started cutting hay.
Good rains have fallen at Silver City
and over most of Grant county.
Forty-two pupils will graduate from
the Roswell high school this year.
The postoffice at Ocate, Mora coun.
ty, was robbed recently, the thieves
securing $50 in stamps.
T. A. Muirhead of Tucumcari has
ben elected head of the Retail Merch-
ants Association of New Mexico.
Lightning struck a tree in front of
the Becker sanitarium on Main street,
Las Vegas. The tree was split and
torn.
special election has been ordered
at Tres Piedras for the purpose of vot-
ing on bond issue for building a new
school house.
Mrs. Alcario Montoya of East Las
Vegas was severely burned recently
from the effects of which it is thought
she will die.
Several measures, intended to pro
mote the interests of the workingmen
of the state, have been introduced in
the Legislature.
The citizens of Alamogordo recently
voted TO have that town Incorporated.
The election of officers is now the
next step to be taken
The little four-year-old boy Of
Brown Harris of Fort Sumner was
drowned in an irrigation canal near
the family home recently.
Jose Refugio Lucero, sentenced 10
the penitentiary from Taos for MUIR
der, was granted a new trial in Dis
trict Court His bail was set at $780,
900.
W. A. Van Dyke, section foreman
for the Southwestern railroad be-
tween Carrizozo and Robsart, was
killed recently by train No. "a, near
Carrizozo.
1t is said the greatest aggregation
of pugilistic talent ever assembled in
one place will assist Jim Flynn in his
preparation for the worlds champion
ship fight at Las Vegas, July 4.
George w. Young of Kellogg, Iowa,
committed suicide in st. Vincent's hos
pital in Santa Fe by shooting himself
in the head He was dying of tuber-
culosis and had been abed for year.
At a special election, held recently
| to decide on the question of whether
or not the town of Alamogordo should
incorporate, the proposition was car
ried by vote of 149 for to 81 against.
July list, the Western Union Tele-
graph Company will take over the
lease OF the El Paso & Southwestern
wires. This lease covers 900 miles OF
wire, extending from Tucumcari to
Tucson, Arizona.
In the training camp of Jim Flynn
at Las Vegas, Miss Marie Drescher, a
honeymoon. She is to be married to
Jack Curley, promoter of the Flynn
Johnson fight at Las Vegas, where
Flynn will meet the black champion
ON July 4th.
E. E. Van Horn of Albuquerque has
purchased eighty head of Holstein
COWS from the Holland dairy in Colo
RADIO Springs, Colorado, and 1t Is an.
nounced that the dairy will discon.
tinue business shortly. The price paid
for the stock was in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
High water has apparently weak
ened the dyke along the Rio Grande at
San Marcial, maintained by the Santa
Fe, to such an extent that 1t is crumb
ling away. 1t is currently reported
that the railroad officials have asked
for several trainloads of rip-rap tC
face the earthen portions of the struc
ture. Should the dyke give way, seri
Gus damage to railroad property, as
well as to city buildings probably
would result.
Jim Flynn, the heavyweight who Is
to meet Jack Johnson for the cham
pionship at Las Vegas July 4, has ar
rived in that city. Hundreds of citi
zens greeted him with a band. Flynn
began his training at Las Vegas no
springs Immediately. AL Williams. his
sparring partner, Jack Curley, the pro
moter, and H. w. Lanigan accompa
MED Flynn. Curley leaves soon for th'
Pacific coast, where he win get Tom
my Ryan. Flynp's head trainer, anC
bring him to Las Vegas.
What may result in great increas'
in the taxable valuation of San Jual
county land is expected from the NOV,
made by Assessor A. G. Mccoy. MI
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