The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-10
NEW MEXICO
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Mrs. Page B. otero, wife Of the chief
deputy game warden, is back to Santa
Fe from California, where she has
been since September.
Word from Pojoaque state that
Manuel Garcia, who was shot in
brawl on the feast of Guadalupe, had
died from his wounds.
Dr. NJ. F. DesMarais, county health
| officer, says there is not case. of
smallpox, measles or scarlet fever on
the West Side at Las Vegas.
P. H. Head OF Pennington pleaded
guilty to the charge of burning the Du-
range lumber yard and has implicated
Ernest Westbrook rs an accessory.
While timbering operations are car
ried on on a large scale in New Mex
leo, there are vast areas of valuable
standing timber which have not been
| touched.
The first building ever built in Ros-
well is being torn down to make way
for progress. This is a story and a
half abode, and will be replaced with
brick building.
A movement is afoot at Las Vegas
to organize an automobile club on.
business basis to work in connection
with the local branch of the New Mex
leo Good Roads Association.
The case of Fannie Collins, colored
charged for drawing a gun on Anna
Dickinson, colored, was tried in Judge
M. A. Wyatt's Police Court in Roswell
She was fined $50 and costs.
Mrs. Martha Fox Cutler Green died
at her home northeast of Las Vegas
after an illness of three weeks. Mrs.
| Green was the mother of fourteen
children, seven of whom survive her.
Jose Martinez was arrested at Las
| Vegas on the complaint of his wife,
Tonita Martinez, who applied to
Judge D. r. Murray in the City Court
to have Martinez put under peace
bond.
]. D. Tinsley urges upon the dry
farmers of the state a consideration
of the importance of taking advantage
of the moisture In the ground from tho
recent SHOWS to break for next years
crops.
The Santa Fe County Rural School
Exhibit, under the direction of County
School Superintendent John V. Con-
way, will take place in Santa Fe on
February 81, in the Lecture Hall of
American Archaeology.
The state corporation commission
has just ordered the Santa Fe coast
lines to install as a maximum penalty
for cash fares taken on trains tha
sum of So cents instead of $500 as
was charged from Albuquerque to Gal.
lup.
! Sergeant John Beal, of the mounted
police, stationed at Deming, arrested
Todd Huston, a half-breed Indian,
charging him with aggravated assault
aud battery. He was taken before a
justice of the peace, and fined $2S
and costs.
The flow of oil in the we'll at the
Maxwell farm, coupled with the report
of Geologist Fisher, who says the
chances for gas at 800 feet are very
good, has caused a number Of Maxwell
capitalists to discuss drilling a well
for the town.
Their eyes almost bullying with sur
prise curiosity and amazement, con.
victs who have been in the
state penitentiary at Santa Fe
for over eighteen years with
out even a peep at the wonders OF
the twentieth century, had wonderful
awakening" when moving pictures
were shown for the first time at the
prison. 1t was striking scene, and
. one long to be remembered by War
den McManus and his assistants, as
well as by the visitors, his guests.
w. D. Shea, travelling freight and
passenger agent for the D. & R. G
who has been resident of Santa FL
for the past four years, has rendered
his resignation to that company and
on January l accepted the position o.
travelling freight and passenger agent
for the Ell Paso & South Southwest
ern, with headquarters at FL Paso.
The announcement is made that
Professor John d. Tinsley, since 1916
agricultural demonstrator for the
Santa Fe Railway Company in New
Mexico. with headquarters in Albu
querque. will be transferred in the
spring to the territory covered by the