The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-03-22
LITrLE nav MEXICO IrEMs.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ord.
nary Interest.

silver CITY.
District Court is in session ia Val
encia county.
A Sunday Observance League has
been organized at Lordsburg.
L. J. Peach has been appointed JUS
tice of the peace at Columbus.
District court is in session in Silver
City, with Judge Neblet presiding.
The proposition of erecting a new
school building is being agitated at
Taos.
Father Leo de Laville is reported to
have been shot by silas Roybal at
Penasco.
Jose Antonio, an old Indian sheep
herder, was recently frozen to death
lear Gallegos.
Express companies have made a spe.
cial rate on fruit and vegetables from
Carlsbad to Dallas, Texas.
Samuel Lyle has been held for the
grand jury at Albuquerque for the kill
ing of Ira Carr in a pool room in that
city.
Roseborough is the name of new
town laid out in the Mimbres valley,
Luna county, by P. w. Turner of Ada,
Ohio
Only eleven delegates out of forty
two were present at the recent Re
publican county convention of Sierra
county.
Santa Fe is making a strong bid for
franchise in the proposed six-olub
baseball league now in course of for
nation.
Within a month automobiles can
run with ease from Albuquerque to
Cabezon, the road and bridges being
improved.
Officers of Clovis recently made
raid on a gambling place and several
parties, caught with "the goods" were
arrested.
One Sunday recently more than 30
persons were received into the mem
bership of the different churches of
Carlsbad.
Bernalillo county's total valuation
of taxable property for the year 1912
will show an increase of at least a
million and half dollars.
The store of Earickson & Co, at
Fort Sumner, was entered by burglars
who carried away valuable papers, sill
verware, cigars and dry goods.
April 10 has been named by the
mayor of Santa Fe as cleanup day.
All householders are urged to clean up
and disinfect their premises.
The postoffice formerly located at
San Isidro, Sandoyal county, has been
discontinued, according to recent
issue of the postoffice bulletin.
The engineers of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, who have been in Deming for
some time designing new telephone
system, have completed their work.
After returning from a social event,
Roy p Burnett, prominent cattle
man and large stakeholder in the
First National Bank at Carlsbad, shot
himself in the temple with a revolver.
Considerable interest is being man.
ifested in the growing of the Casaba
melon in the Mimbres valley The
small tracts that were planted last
year were, it is said, quite profitable
Ed Hall and Tom Pride, both we'll
known young men in southern New
Mexico, have been bound over to
await the action of the grand jury at
Las Cruces on charge of cattle steal
ing.
Santa Fe.-United States District
Attorney Stephen b. Davis appointed
Herbert w. Clark of Las Vegas aud
Leroy o. Moore of Santa Fe assistant
United States attorneys for New
Mexico.
The oil fields of Seven Lakes are
coming to the front, at least two wells
are now producers and development on
a number of others is being pushed
At Las Cruces new waterworks,
sewage and telephone systems are be-
ing constructed at cost of $15O,OOO.
When complete Las Cruces will be one
of the best equipped towns in the
state.
The Apache Box property in west
ern Grant county, and containing, it
is estimated, 100000 tons OF ore that
viii average SO per ton, is in litlga-
ton. suit having been filed in Silver
City recently.
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