The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF


The old water plant at Clayton was
destroyed by fire entailing a loss of
$4,000 in value, and leaving the town
without a water supply.
The flag pole is in place on the new
Questa school house and Old Glory
waves proudly above the most up-to
date school building in Taos county.
To secure a market for beans was
the all-absorbing topic at the regular
quarterly meeting of the Torrance
County Development Association at
Moriarty
Oney Russell, seventeen years OF
age, was accidentally shot at the Cart
wright ranch thirty-five miles north
west of Roswell while attempting to
load a pistol.
Stephen H. Arnold, ranchman and
professional horsebreaker of Santa Fe
county, was thrown by broncho, in
flicting internal injuries, from which
he may not recover.
Application has been made to the
City Council for the granting of fran
chise for the erection and establish
ment of a new electric lighting and
power plant for Gallup.
The State National Bank of Albu-
buerque was the successful bidder out
of a bunch of seventeen for 100000 of
refunded school bonds The bid was
par with premium of $3.50 additional.
Isidro Roberta, a cowpuncher en-
ployed on the ranch of Sheriff Clos
son of Santa F6, county, while roping
a steer, caught his thumb between the
rope and the saddle, jerking the thumb
eff.
A. C. Probert, cashier of the defunct
State Savings bank at Taos, was con-
victed of embezzlement in the District
Court of Taos county and sentenced to
from six to eight years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The supplanting of the horse teams
now used to haul oil to Mogollon by
traction engines is the latest develop
ment in the freighting proposition now
under consideration by w. A. Tenney
of Silver City.
Educators, present at the Inaugural
tion of DR.. David Ross Boyd as pres
ident of the University of New Mex
leo at Albuquerque, pronounce the
event one of much impressiveness and
full of interest.
Harry DeVore, Bert Kratz and
Charles Hargrave, the three prisoners
in the Alamogordo jail who overpow-
cred the jailer and made their escape
en- August 16, later being re-captured,
entered pleas of guilty.
Abran Mares was convicted in the
District Court of Mora county for the
murder of Francisco Ortega at Wagon
Mound last summer and sentenced to
not less than nineA4R more than ten
years in the state penitentiary.
The acreage necessary to assure the
building of the Hammond-Farmingto
canal has been signed up and as the
soon as the preliminary work can be
completed the contract will be let.
The beginning of the double track
ing of the Santa Fe coast lines out OF
Albuquerque westward will begin next
year, according to a statement by
President Ripley of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn made at Topeka following the
seventeenth annual stockholders meet
| ing of the Santa Fe. The double track
| ing, scores of miles of it, has already
been completed over much of western
New Mexico and Arizona, and the be-
ginning of work out of Albuquerque
indicates the rapid completion of the
great project, one of the biggest pieces
of railroad construction in the south
west since the Belen cutoff was start,
ed.
Practically complete returns from
the entire state with the exception OF
Mckinley county and a few scattered
precincts in various counties show
that the constitutional amendment
carried by 10000; that the bond issue
carried by over 5000; Ferguson was
elected congressman by approximately
400 plurality over Jaffa, and the VIII
son and Marshall electors won out by
between $500 and $500 plurality over
the Taft electors.
Hermit's Lodge, the beautiful sum.
mer home located in the mountains
twenty miles northwest of Las Vegas,
was totally destroyed by fire. The orr
gin of the fire is not known, although
if is believed an overheated stove ig
nited furniture in the kitchen. G. A.
Suits, with his family, occupied the
house until recently when they re