The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-10-25
LIlLg nav MEXICO IreMs.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI
nary Interest.

The Santa Fe will erect a $4,000
depot at Portales.
Rees H. Beddow of Gallup, Mckinley
county, has been appointed state mine
inspector.
The FL Paso keynote trade excur-
sion was in Silver City and remained
four hours.
The Portales Storage Company has
its potato storage plant almost ready
for business.
The people of Artesia were horri-
fled to learn that j. F. Atkinson had
killed himself.
Fire destroyed the Pennington can
ming factory, the loss being $4,000,
with no insurance.
In night wrangle in the Bridge bar
at Las Vegas Abel Tafoya shot H. r.
Lowe, wounding him severely but not
fatally.
A Mexican laborer, Nestor Escaval.
was fearfully mangled on the santa
Fe tracks, about four miles from Ra-
ton, near Kiota.
Jesus Lopez was arrested at Silver
City and placed in the county Jail on
charge of stabbing his wife, Josefa
Monies de Lopez.
E. G. McNabb, who shot and killed
Herbert Hargis in Vaughan, October
Is, 1910, was found not guilty by the
jury trying his case.
Substantial progress on the new ice
manufacturing plant, which is being
put up by the Silver City Power Com.
pany, is being made.
Several of the farmers around Levy
have been putting in wheat the past
two weeks. Wheat is fast taking the
place of the old bean crop.
U. S. Marshal Secundino Romero
las turned over to the Texas authori-
ties T. c. Caveney, charged with
smuggling arms into Mexico.
The Douglas Chamber of Commerce
has shown considerable enterprise in
installing signs along the Borderland
route from FL Paso to Douglas.
There is no town in the Southwest
that appreciates the value of printers
ink more than does Clovis, and the re-
suits are everywhere in evidence.
A A. Fairchild was arrested at Ala
mogordo and taken to Tucumcari by
Sheriff Ward, where he is charged
with having obtained money under
false pretenses.
The question of new Santa Fe pas
senger depot for Silver City has been
practically settled and settled in way
that must afford satisfaction to every
citizen of Silver City.
"Wildfire,' a ten months old bull-ter-
rier pup owned by F. w. Paget of
Denver, was awarded first prize for
the best dog ON exhibition at the dog
show at Albuquerque.
]. NJ. Kurn, general superintendent
of the Santa Fe with headquarters at
La Junta, was in the Duke City laying
plans for the rebuilding of the depot,
which was destroyed by fire.
The Ell Paso Association of Credit
Men wishes to enter New Mexico and
accordingly filed articles OF incorpora-
ton, naming Numa c. Frenger as
agent, with offices at Las Cruces
AS long as salt can be scooped up
from the ground within easy travelling
distance of town the people of Vaughn
need have no immediate fear of fall.
ing in to the clutches of the salt trust
The twenty-eighth session of the
New Mexico English mission and the
Spanish mission conference was held
at Ration. This was the fifth time that
the Gate City, has entertained the
mission since it was organized.
H. H. Hodgeson of the United States
Geological Survey is ct the head of a
party that has almost completed a top,
ographic survey of what is known as
Boyle's Sheet and which extends about
three miles into Grant county on the
Arizona side.
L. Vanlandingham, an electrician
employed by the Chino Copper Com.
pany, met his death by elecrocution
Vanlandingham was in charge of the
pumping station at the B ranch, about
a mile from the mill at Hurley.
For the second time in three days
Roswell's only Thor motorcycle was
involved in a serious accident and the
driver, E. A. Gustafson, is at ST. Ma
rvs hospital suffering serious injuries
which may cost him his right leg.
The new resort and country club
known as "The Pines" and which /:
located in beautiful wooded SPOT II
the Burro mountains about twelve
miles southwest of Silver City, ha: