The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-15
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordl
nary Interest.

| by fire.
The hospital board of Carlsbad has
accepted plans for the addition to the
present building.
Deputy Game Warden Corbin of Ar
tesla has issued seventy-five licenses
for the hunting of large and small
game.
The Silver City council of the Boy
| Scouts of America met at the City hall
and adopted a constitution and elected
officers.
The two silos on the Little Vine
yards property at Deming are COM
pleted and are receiving ensilage.
Each silo has a capacity or sixty tons.
Drilling for oil within a six-mile ra-
dius of Roswell, under the direction
of the Messrs. C. c. and l.. B. Tame
hill, will be started within the near
future -
Some of the Cuerro dry farmers are
buying registered cattle to grade up
their herds with and some are buying
small herds Of high grade cattle to
start from
The Mimbres valley people are
filing applications for the use of
waters of the Mimbres river, and not
trusting all of their irrigation pro-
jects to the pump system.
Governor William Mcdonald has
granted pardon to Juan Quintana of
Bernalillo county and Elijo GARLIC of
| Dona Ana county who were serving
short sentences in the state penitenti-
airy.
The New Mexico mounted police
were the first to run into the ghost"
Which walked at the capitol following
the sale of the 100000 certificates of
Indebtedness which made it possible
for the state to pay officials salaries.
Enrique Lucero, who lived just
north of Rio Grande, was killed by a
Santa Fe freight, on the track near
| the cemetery. His body was found
terribly mangled His horse was
found some distance from the body,
and was badly cut by being struck
by the train.
A report comes from the oil fields
that the Tintera Oil Company had
struck fair quantity of oil in a we'll
at depth of about 1,400 feet The
well is located few miles northeast
of the original well near Gallup. The
Tintera Company is made up mostly
of railroad men.
E. E. Van Horn of Albuquerque, a
Rough Rider, was in Taos and organ
lied the Sunshine Creamery of that
city, and says if he is successful. in
his civil lawsuit now pending in Dis
trict Court that he will ship in 100
Holstein COWS on his valley ranch and
start creamery.
Dudly Anderson met with an acct
dent at Des Moines that cost him
buggy. While driving in the Frost
neighborhood he left a colt to open
a gate and the colt became frightened
and ran away, breaking the buggy so
bad he was unable to bring it home.
The animal ran five miles.
The month of October, 1912, will
go down in history as bringing a kill
ing frost in New Mexico, the goth Of
the month. The number Of clear days
was eighteen, partly cloudy ten, and
cloudy three. The normal sunshine
was eighty-one per cent and the mean
temperature was forty-nine degrees, or
one degree below the average.
A very unique entertainment was
that afforded the apple pickers and
PACKERS employed the past season by
DR.. ]. B. Keaster and Thomas Fee,
of Roswell, when these gentlemen pro-
vided an oyster supper and Hallow-
cen party in the Hagerman orchards
for some 100 persons. The event
marked the close of the apple pick
ing and packing season as far as it
related to the 600 odd acres which
these gentlemen control, operations
having been begun early in August.
Development plans have been the
all absorbing topic in the Carlsbad
project After long negotiations the
Pecos Water Users Association has
agreed on plans with the Civic Devel.
opment Company of Kansas City, for
developing and settling up the Carls-
bad project.
A gathering which was of more ma
terial and mental advancement to the
Citizens of Albuquerque than half a
dozen political conventions was held
here last week. This was the annual
meeting of the New Mexico Educa-
tional Association, which this year
took on new and added Importance be-
cause Of the greatly broadened scope
accorded it, and because of the great
ly increased attendance.