The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-08-02
LlTTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.

hSdNy rams nave IdllSn III tue VI
cinity OF Hillsboro, and the grass is in
fine condition.
Over half a million pounds of wool
has been handled through Carlsbad so
far this season.
Chas. Hick, prominent cattleman
of Clmarron, was seriously injured re-
Gently by horse falling on him.
At Estancia Lincoln Chaves, twelve
years old, while playing, shot and
killed Manuel Aragon, a playmate.
Simon Eby, a pioneer of Grant and
Luna counties, died recently at his
home near Deming. He was seventy
two years old.
Robert H. Crews, native son OF
Hillsboro, has ben honored by the APP
pointment as secretary to the Sheep
Sanitary Board.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Christian Endeavor Society was
held at Mountainair with Rev. J. Will
burn Rose presiding.
Some of the farmers in the Portales
country have harvested an average of
$1,000 worth of beans per acre, and
the season is not more than half
over.
The fire loss on the ella national
forest during the season just complet'
ed was very small one, and the cost
of efficient protective measures were
very low.
H. H. Bradford, who died near the
Santa Fe depot, Santa Fe, is supposed
to have been the first victim of the
dread disease, pellagra, which recently
has been so frequent in the East.
The man who was drowned at the
dam, near Arrey, some weeks ago
when he attempted to swim the swol-
len Rio Grande where it passes the
sandbar in the river.
F. G. Tracy has been named by the
| governor of New Mexico as one of the
| delegates from the new state to the
National Irrigation Congress, which
meets at Salt Lake City, Utah, in Oc-
tober
Second Lieutenant Jacob Stafford, of
the First infantry, New Mexico Ma
tional Guard, died at st. Vincent's hos
pital, Santa Fe, from gangrene, caused
by an attack of appendicitis. An OPP
Grafton performed in the hope it might
save the young mans life proved un-
successful.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the office of the State Corporation
Commission by two domestic compa-
MES, one being the Defiance Coal Com
pany with principal place of business
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, and the other
the Manzana Orchard Company, hav
ing it's headquarters at Roswell. N. M
In battle between a sheriffs posse
headed by Deputy Sheriff AL Roberts
of Lincoln, and Bob Ross and man
named Whitmore, alleged cattle rus
tiers, fought on a ranch near Oscura
Lincoln county, Ross was shot and
killed by Tom Tucker, state cattle
inspector, who was a member of the
posse.
The body of Tom Jackson, negro
and an old and well known prospec
tor in the BurrO mountains, was found
recently not far from Blackhawk. HI
had evidently been assassinated, bull
let entering his mouth and passing
through his head. He was the owne
of many mining claims, discovered
during over twenty years of prospect
ing.
The convict road camp, at worl
. | oh ci
of the Pecos road near Santa Rosa, IN
covered the bones of a man who hat
evidently been murdered. The bone
were found under a pile of loos
: stones and partly surrounded by char
coal and partly burnt sticks. Inquire
in the neighborhood brought no infoI
' nation as to the identity of the dea
man.
After deciding to build the Attest
cannery and run just long enough t
> dispose of the small crop Of tomatoe
. this year, the board of directors G
that institution finally decided agai
that it was no "bueno" and they woul
!, wait until next year. This will wor
more or less of a hardship upon tn
? farmers who have acted in good fat
and planted and worked their fields
A market for all of those who wi
gather their tomatoes this year wi
be provided at the Lakewood Gamer!
a Maxwell-Contracts have been le
;, for the completion of the half millio
d dollar Red River ditch and reservof
: of the Maxwell Irrigated Land Con
!, pany, and the work will be rushed I