The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-10-31

A new bank is to be opened at
Vaughn.
The Artesia Alfalfa Festival was
decidedly good one.
William R. Wilson shot and killed
himself at Albuquerque.
The Knights of Columbus will have
a council in Santa Fe.
The Fall Festival and Flower Show
at Artesia was a success.
The people of Lakewood are agitat-
ing the question of incorporation.
Something like 1900 automobile Ii
censes have been issued by the state.
The State Federation of Woman's
Clubs will meet in Silver City in 1914.
A civil service examination for
clerk-carrier will be held in Las Vegas
on Nov. s.
Meals are now being served in the
new dining room of the penitentiary
at Santa Fe.
]. d. McPike has been elected su.
perintendent Of the New Mexico re-
form school.
The doctors indicted at Albuquerque
for failing to file death reports may
be discharged.
The school population of Colfax
county for 1913 is 4,63& as compared
with 4,49S for 1912.
Barney Spears Of Albuquerque, has
M dnfa
of the state penitentiary.
The large farm house Of Mrs. Ian
don Moore, located ten miles ssouth
of Ration, was destroyed by fire.
Irwin Ogden, Jr., has completed
threshing nearly 10000 pounds OF
beans for James Johnson, ST., of Roy.
Rev. Henry M. Bruce, Methodist pas
tor at Deming, has announced that
he has accepted call to California.
The 1918 school census of Taos
county shows a school population Of
1896, as compared with 4,019 in 1872
Judge William H. Pope Of the u.
s. District Court has appointed Ed
ward Fox U. s. commissioner at Clay
ton.
DOC" Cornish, the Albuquerque boy
who is attending Yale, has cinched the
regular position OF quarterback on the
Blue eleven.
1t is stated that Mrs. John A. Pace
has been recommended by Congress
man Ferguson for appointment az
postmistress at Clayton.
R. P. Donohoo of Tucumcari has
been appointed receiver of the defunct
First State bank of Tucumcari, and
his bond fixed at 100000.
The Ell Paso baseball team won the
championship at the Albuquerque fair
and carried a thousand dollar purse
home to the Pass City.
U. S. District Judge William H.
Pope of Santa Fe sent Joe Martinez,
aged thirteen, to the reform school at
Golden, Colo, for robbing postoffice.
The football eleven of the New Mex
leo State college met and defeated the
team of the cavalry stationed at Ell
Paso, the score of the game being 81
to O.
The weather report for the state
gives the temperature as slightly be-
low the normal for the past month and
the precipitation as slightly above nor
NAL.
The boundary suit between Texas
and New Mexico in which the taking
of testimony was to have commenced
last week, has been postponed until
Nov. 10th.
The Vermejo ranch near Santa F9
has been made a game and fish pre-
serve under the laws of the state. 1t
is said that more than 1000 deer are
on this ranch.
T. r. H. Smith, president of the
First State bank of Las Cruces,
charged with embezzlement, was re-
fused a writ of habeas corpus by
Judge Reynolds.
The Colorado coal mine strike is af-
fecting the Gallup fields prosperously.
The only trouble at Gallup is said to
be to secure labor enough to handle
the increased demands for coal.
An informal complaint has been re.
ceived by the State Corporation Com
mission against the d. & r. G., rela-
tive to the failure of this company to
furnish cars as requested for livestock
shipments.
A Santa Fe engine ran into hand
car holding two Mexicans near Lake
Arthur. The car was knocked off the
track and the two Mexicans were