The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-08-09
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.

shipped from La Huerta.
Artesia- has 1000 inhabitants, &C
cording to the latest count.
The Pennington canning factory is
now operating at full capacity.
The Taos County institute was at.
tended by nearly hundred teachers.
Rev. w. A. Dawson has resigned as
pastor of the Christian church of Ar
tesla.
A black bear was killed recently by
WHY Rains, who lives just below Pine
Lodge.
More than sixty teachers attended
the Roosevelt County Normal Insti-
tute at Portales.
At Maxwell several new homes have
been completed recently and many
more are planned.
The protracted drouth in the vicin-
ity of Dexter has been broken, good
rains having fallen over that section.
Complaints are being made that
some of those who are fishing in the
state are using questionable means to
secure fish.
The Woman's Club of Albuquerque
has offered prizes aggregating $25 for
the child that will swat the most flies
during the season.
The Cox lumber mill, twelve miles
east of Taos is operating regularly
and orders are being received for all
the products they can turn out.
R. B. Spikes of Albuquerque has in
vented an attachment for regulating
the power of automobiles, the effect
being to save from rs to rs per cent.
of the gas.
Two months after the death of her
husband, Mrs. Juanita Dominguez died
at Santa Fe of what is declared to
have been a broken heart. She was
sixty-two years old.
Perfect harvest weather is making
it possible for the farmers to push the
gathering of their bumper wheat crop
All of the grain has been cut and
threshing has commenced in many To-
calities.
The mining interests in the Florida
and Tres Hermanas mountains lying
only few miles north and northwest
of Columbus are now receiving consij-
cradle attention and quantity of ore
is being taken out.
Pedro Madrid, slayer of Alfonso
Beall, sheep rancher, has been located
in the Captain mountains west Of Ros-
we'll and county officials and a posse
are closing in or him. Madrid's trail
has been followed for a week.
More than 300 children of school
age in New Mexico did not attend
schol anywhere, and thirty per cent,
Of them did not attend as much as
three months, during the school year
of 1910-1911, according to State SUI
perintendent White.
B. M. Wilkerson, driver of the i'll
fated automobile in which thirteen
year-old Lorene Whiteman met her
death at Roswell, died from injuries
received in the collision with a fallen
tree. This makes the second fatality
as a result of the accident. The four
other persons injured will recover.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has begun the shipment of an extra
supply of refrigerator cars into the
fruit district at Pennington. General
Manager e. L. Brown, in letter tc
the state corporation commission Of
New Mexico, states that the road vii
make every effort p handle the i'm
mense fruit crop without loss to ship
peTs.
The farmers of the Otis district
have perfected an organization of 10
cal capital for the purpose of starting
a creamery in the district named. The
capital stock of the new company il
!. $4,000 and articles of incorporation
will shortly be filed in Santa Fe. AL
the stock of the company has beer
subscribed by farmers living in tn
Otis district.
Las Vegas has been denied waite
for municipal purposes pending settle
1 ment of controversy between tn
( City Council and the Aqua Pura Com
9 pany as to the rate the city shall pay
a The mayor threatens to force the CON
r pany to give the city free water an,
+ the president of the water compan
) promises to meet any such attemp
d with a refusal of water for fire pr
: lection.
Game Warden Trinidad c. de BAG
of Santa Fe returned recently from
week spent in Colfax county lookin
after game conditions there. Cola
s has lots of game according to Nj
8 Baca, especially deer, but he Is of tn
J. opinion that the present law is too la
; to allow the deer to mnltlnlY as the