The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-08-23
LIrrLE nav MExIco IrEMs.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI.
nary Interest.


Gied at Buchanan.
Several shop lifters have been ar
rested recently in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe has been visited by numer.
Gus rains and some hail during the
last week.
Citizens of Taos recently overwhelm-
ingly voted down the proposition for
new school building.
George Thompson, who has a farm
near Santa Fe, raised tomatoes this
season which weighed one pound each.
The Ration, Dawson and Las Vegas
ball teams have been disbanded fef
the summer, owing to alleged non
support.
The annual convention Of the New
Mexico Woman's Christian Temper
anoe Union was held in Santa Fe Aus
8, 10 and IL.
An important innovation at the Uni
versity of New Mexico Just arranged
is the organization of department of
physical education.
Considerable trouble is being had at
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authorities to sell several large land
grants for delinquent taxes.
Visitors to the Mora valley report
the crops in that locality to be in
splendid condition. Indications are
that the yield this year will break all
records.
While playing Clyde, Carmichael,
eight years old, of Santa Fe, fell upon
4 sharp stick which pierced his abdo.
men, as a result of which he is in Sc
rious condition.
Several passengers of the local run
ming between Santa Fe and Carlsbad
were injured when the freight was
wrecked about three miles southeast
of Santa Fe.
The long talked of Santa Fe railroad
cutoff from Lubbock to Texico is
about to materialize at last. Work
has been going on at several places
along the line for some time.
D. c. Farrell, section foreman for
the Southern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny at Ulmoris, siding a few miles
east of Lordsburg, was seriously In
jured Monday by being gored by a
COW.
The assessing of Silver City proper
ty has been completed by City Asses
sor H. H. Belts and shows a total
valuation of $SOO,24O. This is quite an
increase aver the $772,12O valuation Of
last year.
The state game warden's office is
now organized at Santa Fe. with all
deputies appointed, blanks sent the va
rious officers, and all the preliminary
work of installing a new and approved
system of bookkeeping attended to.
The San Miguel County Teachers
Normal Institute is now in session in
the Normal school at Las Vegas, and
prospects are for an unusually sue
cessful session. Already the enroll
nent of students has reached the
seventy mark and other names are be-
ing added to the rolls daily.
According to recent decision of
United States Judge William H. Pope
In which he held that the Pueblo In
dams of New Mexico are citizens in
every sense of the word, there will
be no bar to New Mexico having two
congressman, for Judge Pope's -deci-
sion would give the state enough ad-
ditional population to entitle it to a
second representative in the lower
house.
With dangerous wound in his abb
domen, Earnest Kroenig, a lad of fif-
teen years, was brought to Las Vegas
On Santa Fe train No. and placed
in hospital. The boy was wounded
miles north Of Las Vegas. A IA caliber
Winchester, which he was carrying,
was accidentally discharged, the bullet
penetrating the abdomen just below
the waist line.
The New Mexico conference of the
Seventh-Day Adventists was in SEES
sion at Fort Sumner August 10 to %.
Fourteen churches were represented
at the conference. Officers were elect
ed for the ensuring year.
Private advices received in Santa
Fe assert that the appropriation bill
passed recently by Congress, carried
provision for the expenditure of ten
per cent of all forest service receipts
for roads, this money to be expended
upon the roads on the forests and I'M
DER direction of the forest supervisors.
The local forest service officials say
that this will give about $4,000 a
year to the good roads cause in New
Mexico.
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