The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-05-10
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences OF More Than ord.
nary interest.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

"Nit hioNoN0itu III q must III ANV7-
well recently.
The recent opening of the new $780,
600 Chaves county court house drew
the largest crowd ever in Roswell.
San Juan County District Court
will convene at Aztec on May goth
with Judge E. C. Abbott on the bench.
Fire destroyed the barn at the Bow
man place near Artesia. A stallion
valued at $1,000 persisted in the
flames.
The unprecedented price of $24
ton was paid for alfalfa hay at the
public sale of Rev. Jacob Wyne at
Dexter.
The big ditching machine of the
Derter Ditch Company has again re-
sumed work after short shutdown
for repairs.
The House, after two hours debate,
passed an act repeating the compuls.
DRY vaccination law The vote wds
twenty-six to nineteen
Pedro Barela, the fourth of the five
prisoners who escaped from jail at
Lincoln, is again behind the bars, hay
ing been arrested at Ell Paso.
Sheriff McGrath of Grant county has
given instructions to his subordinates
to arrest all parties engaged in any
form of gambling in that county.
The public schools as well as the
churches at Anthony, Dona Ana
county, have been closed on account
of the prevalence of scarlet fever.
Jesus Quintana, for many years
resident of Springer, was instantly
killed by falling from heavily loaded
wagon under the wheels which passed
over his body.
1t is rumored that Ell Paso may go
after the convention for 1918 of the
New Mexico Retailers association.
The meeting this year will be held in
Albuquerque May 1-S.
The Senate passed the House joint
resolution of coincidence over the I'll
tanic disaster, but first cut out spe-
cial reference to John Jacob Aston
and the Spanish-American war heroes.
Jose Torres is in Jail at Bernalillo
on the charge of assault with intent
to kill Maria E. Sparse, woman with
whom he had been living for some
time. The woman is in a critical con
dition.
The people of Northwestern New
Mexico and Southwestern Colorado
are concentrating their efforts to have
that section of the country put ON a
direct line of railroad to Gallup or Al
buquerque. Just at present they are
considering the feasibility of making
Gallup the terminus.
Shepherds in the foothills of the
Wales range near Abiquiu recently
found the body of man who evident,
ly persisted in a snowstorm. His eff
fects were marked ]. e. Irvine and he
had on his person deed for several
copper mines near Abiquiu and stock
in the various companies.
The number of new employees on the
works at Elephant Butte just now is
less than at any time since construc-
ton of the flume began. AS soon as
| the cement work on the dam section
of the flume is started the number of
men will probably reach a normal fig
ure. 1t is intended to carry as MANY
workmen as is consistent.
With the fruit in all directions from
| na1ou n xvapu GOOD condition
turn of warm weather is greeted glad
ly by the orchardists. Until the past
few days the cold nights have fright
ened the fruit growers, who feared a
freeze would kill all the fruit then in
bloom. With the passing of the cold
wave and the high winds which have
accompanied it, all danger seems to be
past for the present.
Among the most recent bills intro
duced in the House are: An act APP
propriating $4,000 for the improve
ment of the Rio Grande; an act pro-
yiding that the city marshal and city
attorney of municipalities shall be
elected instead of appointed; an act to
create an industrial school in or near
Santa Fe; and memorial of Congress
asking for the creating of two more
federal judicial circuits west of the
Missouri.
According to reports which are
brought in from sheep camps in tine
Belen vicinity, the present season
gives promise of being one of the best
in recent years. With the lambing
season at its height the owners OF
large herds of sheep in this section of