The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-06-14
LlrrLE nav MEXICO lrEMs.

The casino at Cloudcroft was de-
stroyed by flames, the loss being
$4,000.
Alfedo Valdez, aged twenty-five,
committed suicide at Ration by shoot
ing himself.
An upper valley interurban line
from Ell Paso to Las Cruces is now be.
ing discussed.
Work has been started on a cement
lem and settling basin for the Max
well water works.
Joseph Galley was arrested at Ration
for an attempt to hold up Juan Agui-
lar with a revolver.
Mrs. G. ]. Helton killed three noun
tain lions at the Helton goat camp on
the Animas in Sierra county.
One hundred and eighty thousand
gallons of water are being put on the
streets of Roswell every day.
Stafford Cox, who was burned by a
galosine explosion several weeks ago
at Hagerman, died as result.
William Blevins, who lived seven
miles southwest of Lakewood, acct
dentally shot and killed himself.
Water is now flowing into Lake 20,
the lake that joins Maxwell on the
west, and it will soon be filled to the
brim.
Fritz Brandt of San Juan county
has been arrested for cattle stealing
on warrant issued out of the District
Court.
Three acres of melon plants were
destroyed by kangaroo rats on the
ranch of ]. B. Mcpherson of Sierra
county.
The Hachita Cattle Company recent
ly shipped thirty-six cars of cattle
from Carrizozo. amounting in all to
over 1900 head.
The Dawson Baseball Association is
making an effort to put in the field
this year the best baseball team pos
sible to organize.
From July 1, the postoffice at Ar
tesla will be In the second class, and
the postmaster will receive an advance
in salary from $1,000 to $4,000 year.
In scheduled twenty-round bout at
Magdalena, the Alabama whirlwind
knocked out Bill Clark, known from
ocean to ocean as Santa Fe Bill, in
the third round.
P. M. Shelley, Bell Brothers and
others of the ella, river section, recent
ly shipped 597 head of young beeves to
Amarillo, Tex. The prices paid were
$3.50, $26 and $50.
The twenty-machine shearing plant
Of H. r. Stephens at Buchanan has
been working full blast the past ten
days and from 1900 to 1000 head of
sheep have been shorn daily.
The Continental Oil Company which
is represented at Portales by the
Connally Coal Company, has called for
bids for the erection of a foundation
for an 18,000-gallon oil tank.
The creeks coming over the noun
tain at Virsylvia have been higher
than at any time since last August,
several of the streams overlooking
their banks.
According to prominent fruit grow
ers of Roswell the fruit crop in the
Pecos valley this fall will eclipse all
former seasons in the history of the
apple in eastern New Mexico.
Harry Pierson, proprietor of the
Springer hotel at Springer, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head. He was found dead in the
rear room of saloon by the porter.
The decapitated body of Louis Bar
ington, a twenty-year-old negro, was
found in a gulch near Gallup, recently.
The body was considerably decom-
posed and had ben partly devoured by
coyotes.
Portales is planning to have a big
celebration on the Fourth of July.
At the request of members of the
Legislature, Jack Johnson, who is
training at Las Vegas, recently went
to Santa Fe and gave a nine-round
boxing exhibition for the benefit OF
that body.
The Chino Copper Company at San
ia Rita, Grant county, has been com
PEELED to close its mines because of a
strike. All classes of employees de-
manded higher wages. The demand
was refused.
The Baca bond bill has become law,
Governor Mcdonald signed the meas
ure and thus helped to lift from the
taxpayers of every county, but espe-
clallY Of santa Fe and Grant counties