The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-09-20
LIrrLE nav MEXICO ITEMe.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI.
nary interest.


thousand people being in attendance.
Machinery for a new ten-ton ice
plant has been ordered for Silver City
and will be installed in the near flu
ture.
All the laws passed by the recent
Legislature, which did not carry the
emergency clause, became effective on
September 7th.
The Curry County Fair has been set
for September 9th and 2Sth and plans
are being made to have some interest
ing attractions.
Automobile and airship races are to
be features of the State fair at Albu-
querque, October T-12. Senator Borah
of Idaho speaks there on State Day.
A $4,000 land deal in the Carlsbad
project has just been closed, S. Weber
of Ell Campo, Tex, buying all lands
owned by Richard j. Bolles of Carls-
bad.
Maxwell, thirty miles from Ration, is
not to be outdone by its enterprising
neighbors, having announced a pump
kin pie and baked squash day for Sep
TENDER 2Sth.
Horse thieves have been getting in
their nefarious work on the pastures
and ranges of Torrance county, the
stolen stock being driven west toward
| the Manzano mountains.
That the outlook for prosperous
and useful year in the public schools
of New Mexico was never better is the
opinion of State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Alvan N. White.
The sale of the Pueblo Bonito prop
erty near Roswell to Frank MCGEE, a
coal operator of Leavenworth, Kan,
has given a new lease of life to the
agitation for a Gallup-Farmington rail
road.
The committee in charge of the Har-
vest Home Day, originally set for Sep
TENDER Both, has changed the date to
September 2Sth, to suit the conven-
fence of Governor Mcdonald, who adj
vises definitely that he can be there
on the 2Sth.
The law is now seeking Jesus Mar
tinez on the charge of numbering Mar.
garlic Salinas. whose dead body,
badly mutilated, was found near
Vaughn. Martinez, who quarreled
with the deceased at a dance, disap-
peafed.
The fifth annual county fair to be
held at Clovis, September 9th and
2Sth, promises to be one of the great
est that New Mexico has ever given.
Premiums aggregating $1,000 for the
best crop stuff and live stock have
been raised
After only twenty-four hours of free
dom, Howard Howell was returned to
the State Reform School at Springer
by Marshal Baldwin of Ration. Howell,
who was sent up from Roswell to
serve from two to three years for ar
son, had served the greater portion of
his term, when he escaped from tho
guard. This is his second attempt to
end his term of service.
At st. Joseph's hospital in Albu-
querque an operation was performed
in which DR.. Salmon removed Chester
Hale's left eye. Some two months ago
the lad was with several playmates
bouncing rocks along the cement side
walks, when one of the rocks broke, a
fragment entering his eye. 1t was de-
cided necessary to remove the eye in
order to save the other.
After spending month travelling in
the irrigated districts of California
and investigating the various methods
of pumping used there, Melville R.
Summers, manager Of the Pecos Val
ley Investment Company, has returned
to Roswell firm in the belief that the
Pecos Valley still surpasses the
t Golden State as field for investment
and as an all-round place of residence,
Denver, Ell Paso and Dallas are to
be outclassed by the new Scottish
? Rite cathedral at Santa Fe. This quar-
, ter of a million dollar edifiee will con.
! tain the largest Scottish rite stage in
. the world and the finest pipe organ in
I the Southwest.
The funeral Of Solomon Luna, Re
= publican national committee man
I. whose body was found floating in a
}, sheep dipping vat on his ranch, was
I held at Albuquerque. More than q
+ thousand followed the body to the
: grave. President Taft telegraphet
r Mrs. Luna: ''The sad news Of
T the death of my good friend, your
e husband. has just reached me. Mrs
!. Taft and l extend our deep sympathy
|. A mortgage of 100000 has been re
e corded in the county clerks office a