The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-06-06

A hunting and fishing club is to be
organized at Santa Rosa.
Wheat is reported knee high in va
rsous places on the plains.
Fruit trees around Springer are re-
ported loaded with blossoms.
Good road boosters held an interest
ing meeting at Wagon Mound.
The lamb crop in the Springer Sec
ton will total from So to 80 per cent.
Denver reports the receipt of april
cots from New Mexico, the first on
the market.
A lot Of newly-hatched grasshop-
pers held up a Santa Fe passenger
train north of Kenna.
Andrieus A. Jones of Las Vegas has
Geen appointed commissioner of the
General Land Office at Washington.
Amarillo reports a swarm of locusts
i've miles wide and eighteen miles
long infesting northeastern New Mex
leo.
Work will be commenced within the
next month on the new oil companys
well to be drilled in the Meadows near
Pennington.
Deming has shipped approximately
10000 head of cattle during the mast
two weeks, at price said to be equal
to $50 per head.
The Penasco Valley Mercantile
Company, located in Hope, Eddy coun-
~, has filed articles of incorporation
with the corporation commission.
The nineteenth session of the New
Mexico normal school at Silver City
came to close with the graduation
of thirteen members of the 1913 class.
The mail service to Santa Rita,
Hurley and Fierro has been made OF
greater convenience to the people by
the placing on that run railway mail
clerk.
Forest fires are reported forty-five
miles northwest of Levy, in the north
ern part of the state. They have al
ready destroyed several miles of tim
Der.
An amendment has been filed with
the State Corporation Commission,
changing the name of the Citizens
Bank of Des Moines to the First State
Rank.
II. w. Berry, a veteran Santa F6
conductor, and for over twenty years
a familiar figure on the Santa F6
tranch, was instantly killed at Lamy
Junction.
County Clerk George Sena was
about the best pleased man in Santa
Rosa, owing to his having struck a
vein of good soft water at depth of
forty feet
Jose Marie Fernandez, a Mexican
youth convicted of the murder of Bet
tie Potter, which occurred in Silver
City February 5, 1912, and who was
sentenced by Judge Neblett to a life
term in the state penitentiary at San
ia Fee, escaped from that institution
by hiding in car of brick that was
being loaded in the prison yard, and
has not yet been apprehended.
What is declared to have been ths
greatest feast ever served in the Pc.
cos valley was the barbecue dinner
at the Slaughter ranch in honor of the
delegates and other visitors in Ros-
well for the annual state convention
of the Retailers Association of New
Mexico. Approximately $50 peopIa
participated in the feast and all cana
away well satisfied.
Visiting delegates to the convention
of the State Retailers Association at
Roswell enjoyed inspecting the Pecos
valley oil fields in the neighborhood
of Artesia and Dayton.
Prof. w. o. Hall of Milwaukee, Wis.
who was unanimously chosen superiu.
tendent of the Roswell city schools.
has wired HIS acceptance of the posi-.
ton to President d. F. Thomas of the
board of directors.
fire at Pennington destroyed the
blacksmith and machine shop of e. e.
Otis. The property was worth about
$4,000, which is partly covered by in
surance. AS soon as insurance adjust.
ments are made work will be COM
menced building new shop of brick.
At Las Vegas Night Officer Ed
Ward and Merchants Policeman Ter.
ry McGovern were called to the resi-
dence of Thomas Foster, Sr, where
they placed Thomas Foster, Jr., under
arrest on the charge of fighting with
his father. When taken before Judge