The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-17
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
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and about Roswell.
Work on the Clovis hospital will be
started early in the spring.
A number of counterfeit nickles have
been circulated about Las Vegas.
A gas franchise was voted by the
citizens of Artesia, 1874 for to AZ
against the proposition.
Clyde Clifton, who was brought
from Kelly in precarious condition,
| died at the Socorro hospital.
Clyde Slane was mysterlously shot
at Fort Sumner at the feed store which
he is running for Carl Gerhardt.
Wild turkey are said to be plenti-
full this season, and the sports are aft
err them in lively punches now
A number of farmers living near
Jireh met at that place and organized
the Jireh Farmers Association,
Mounted Policeman ]. H. MeHughes
arrested Pedro Sandovai near Man
zana, on the charge of horse stealing.
One of the best prospects for oil in
the vicinity of Roswell is on the S. l.
Redfield place near Cumberland City,
south.
A plaster of Paris mold of an 1895
five-cent piece was found in an old
house by Rev. Thomas Harwood of AL.
buquerque.
The year 1912 was a record breaker
in the Carlsbad district quarter of
| n million dCIlorc xpac avneudod In i'm
provements and development.
The big state wide boosters meet
ing, which the Santa Fee Chamber Of
Commerce has called for January 18TH
promises to be great success.
William McMath, who for years has
conducted the largest dairy business in
northern New Mexico, has been MISS
ing from Ration for several days.
The Santa F@ county rural school
exhibit will take place in the lecture
room of the School of American Arch.
zoology in Santa Fe on Friday, Feb.
Iuary 21st.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed l..
Waters Kingdom, of Clayton, Union
county, and Robert Emmett McCabe, of
Albuquerque. Bernalillo county. no.
taries public.
The efforts of the Chamber of Com
merce of Santa Fe to organize state
wide Boosters Association, meets with
the endorsement of every city, village
and town in the state.
The work on the extension of the
Quanah, Acme & Pacific is getting
along nicely. The rails have been
laid several miles out of Paducah, and
they are rushing the work as fast as
possible.
State Engineer French stated that
the work on the road from Las Cruces
to Organ, in Dona Ana county, will
likely be started at once. This road
is to be twelve miles long and is of
vast Importance TO residents in the
Estancia valley.
Articles of incorporation Of the Pc
cos Valley Alfalfa Farms Company oil
Colorado were filed in the office OF
the state corporation commission al
Santa Fe. The new company has its
New Mexico offices in Carlsbad, Eddy
county, and names Henry H. Gleseker
statutory agent. 1t Is capitalized at
81 100000 and has a paid in capital OF
$1,300,000.
Joe Howard of Portales and e. r
Dennis and J. H. Pritchard of Clovis
we're painfully hurt and narrowly es
capped being killed when an auto in
which they were driving, ten miles
southeast OF albuquerque plunged into
deep arroyo where the men expect
ed to find a bridge which had been re
Gently moved further up the gulch. All
three men were fearfully shaken uI
and badly cut and bruised about the
face and body. Howard having a sec
ton of his mouth and cheek torn Off
A farmer came into Las Vegas with
1877 live turtles which he caught in the
streams in the Berrendo tracts. He
sold them to local Cinnamon. They
ship a big part to FL Paso to their
oriental brethren. They were mostly
of the hard shell variety.
Director of the United States Re
clamation Service Newell made a talk
in I'll Paso in which he strongly urged
the business men to get together and
see to 1t that the acreage under the
Elephant Butte dam project be kept
out of the grasp of real estate sharks
who might make the undertaking
worthless. He said the thing to dc
was to get the right man to till the
SOIL