The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-29
NEW MEXICO
In BRIEF
western Newspaper Union News Service.

There will be considerable New Mex
leo land seeded to alfalfa in the mex
few months.
over three hundred entries were re.
ceived by Secretary John r. St Johi
of the Pecos Valley Poultry Associa
tion for the annual show held at Res
well.
Announcement was made by friends
of Judge R. ID. Bell of Roswell that the
well-known justice of the peace is d
candidate for the office of United
States marshal.
The Pecos Valley has been given
new apple butter factory as an adjunct
to its many manufacturing industries.
This factory is located in the Hager
man orchard at ArtesiaAt
Judging from the number of Cali
fornians that are now coming into Co
lumbus and the Lower Nimbres Valley,
they certainly have been hearing some
good reports from that section.
The season for wild turkey is now
on, or rather, has been since Novem-
Der 1. 1t closes January 10. Limit,
four in possession at one time. The
deer and grouse season has ended.
Tired of watching the pot boil, Ben
Wyant, the night cook, and Andres
Gales, the day cook, escaped from the
penitentiary at Rawlins and now the
whole country 10 being secured for
them.
Juan Armijo, a well-known rancher
from Las Palomas, who was indicted
for branding and stealing a light
dunno colored horse belonging to
Thomas Mahar, was tried at Hillsboro
and found not guilty.
The largest cash deal for Pecos
Valley land which has been made for
some time was closed up at Artesia,
when Frank Hamer of Houston, Tex,
bought 400 acres of fine alfalfa land
for the sum of $4,000.
Although the beet harvest has just
started, $4,000 worth of the crop has
already been shipped from Maxwell to
the sugar factory at Garden City, Kan.
From this time on the weekly ship.
ments will grow heavier.
Deputy Game Warden Randan and
|. W. T. Johnson arrested eight Nava.
jo Indians in Ditch cahon who had
forty deer hides. The Indians we're
taken to Santa Fe. where the hides
and some deer meat was conflscated.
The Grand Lodge of the state OF
the Order of Eastern Star has con-
ferred an honor upon Mrs S. E. Aid
rich of Gallup by electing her to ono
of the highest positions in the order,
grand matron of the state.
A request that the District Court
demand an audit the county books,
and a detailed statement by county
commissioners as to the cost of the
new court house, supposed to have
been about 100000, are two OF the i'm.
portant acts of the grand jury, which
concluded a ten-day sitting at Roswell
The Supreme Court chamber at
Santa re was the scene of an unusual
occurrence when Chief Justice c. J.
Roberts suspended court to unite in
marriage Miss Nellie C. Brewer, sec
rotary of the New Mexico Bar Assccia,
ton and the only woman lawyer in
the state, and Harold Pierce. the law
partner Of Miss Brewer.
r. P. Boone recently sold his cattle
ranch, which is located near Dwyer,
on the Mimbres river. to Fassett 8
Doolittle, who Immediately assumed
possession Of same The deal, which
| involved an expenditure Of approxi.
na.ely $4,000, includes all the horses
and cattle. as well as the ranch, for.
merly held by r. P. Boone.
The "despised" rabbit is coming
into his own. La Lande citizens are
seriously thinking Of starting a fac
tory for canning chickens, Holsters
turtle and various other codiment, all
from Bunny and his big brother, Jack
Conductor Fred Perry was killed at
Taft, Cal, by being thrown from a
moving train. Mr.. Perry was well
known In Gallup, having worked on
a run between that city and Belen and
Albuquerque for many years. up until
about year ago.
An adjustment of the freight rates
on live stock from Colorado. New Mex.
leo and Texas to Kansas City and
other points has been announced by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
as result of an inquiry. which fol.
lowed suspension Of the proposed ad.
vance.
The discovery Of artesian water in
the Seven Lakes district has stirred