The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-05-31
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ,rGMs.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI
nary Interest.

erning the incorporation of cities and
towns.
The Portales Cantaloupe and Prod.
uce Association has received over
eighty thousand sweet potato plants
from Kansas.
The first term of the District Court
for Luna county is in session at Dem
ing. The docket is light and the term
will be short.
Governor Mcdonald has requested
the resignation of the trustees of the
New Mexico Hospital for Insane at
Las Vegas.
The Scottish Rite Masons, at their
recent reunion in Santa Fe, conferred
their degrees on eighteen of the state
Legislators.
The 1000, OO0-pound wool clip from
the Pecos valley sheep is beginning
to be stored. The shearing has opened
up in good shape.
The prospects for full fruit crop
of every kind of fruit in reported to
be very fine in the vicinity of Farm
ington and Aztec.
Munro Ferguson, who has lived in
Silver City for two years, has received
$4,000 from the estate of the late
John Jacob Astor.
Jim Harper, charged with participa-
ton in the recent hold-up of the Mo
gollon stage, has been arrested and
lodged in Jail at Alamogordo.
Mayor Sellers of Albuquerque pro-
claimed May 22nd holiday on ac-
count of the national meeting of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers.
A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate creating a commissioner of chart
ties and correction, to be appointed by
the governor and to have a salary Of
$4,000 per annum.
The first week of the regular May
term of the Sierra County Court re-
suited in the return of twenty-three
indictments by the grand jury and
seven no bills
An artesian flow was brought In re-
Gently in ten-inch drill, at Silver City,
at depth of 2S5 feet. The well will
produce, it is said, 100000 gallons a
day. The well is four miles from town.
A jury in the Federal Court at Santa
Fe brought in verdict against the
Santa Fe railroad system for violating
the hours of service law. The COM
pany was found guilty on three counts.
State Engineer Chas. D. Miller has
returned from a trip through the
northeastern portion of the state and
reports that the road from Las Vegas
to Mora, will be put in high state Of
repair.
The New Mexico State Democratic
convention at Clovis selected eight
delegates and eight alternates to the
National Democratic convention at
Baltimore and instructed them for
Champ Clark.
A bill, providing for the payment of
the railway aid bonded Indebtedness
of Santa Fe and Grant counties, re-
| Gently passed the House. The amount
of this Indebtedness is one and a half
million dollars.
In shooting affray at q dance,
which occurred at La Joya, twenty-six
miles north of Socorro, Melton Barela,
who attempted to act as peaoemaker
was shot through the lungs and seri-
ously wounded
Apolonio Barela, shot by John Cant,
we'll at a dance at Stanley, southern
Santa Fe county, died of his injuries.
Cantwell is at large and the police
swore out a warrant charging him
with murder in the first degree.
~ The Santa FEES new reading room
and club house at Belen was formally
opened recently with the appearance
of an exceptionally good concert
troupe from Chicago, which presented
a very. attractive program of musical
numbers.
1t is now practically certain that
Gov Mcdonald will call an extra SEES
sion of the Legislature.
The bill providing for the salaries
and expenses of the corporation com
mission has passed the Senate, but II
has struck a big snag in the House
and there Is no telling what will be Its
fate in the end. The commission asks
for $4,000.
The First State Savings Bank of Al
buquerque has filed papers of corpor
alton with the state corporation com
mission. The capital stock of the in
stitution is to be 100000, S25O,OOO O
which has been subscribed and $500 ,OOC
actually paid in.
On account Of the great amount O.
activity in the Seven Lakes oil fields