The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-21
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF


Civil service examinations for vari-
GUS positions will be held at Las We
gas on March 81, April and -.
The Arizona-New Mexico Sheep
Company, an Arizona concern, capital
lied at 100000, was admitted to the
state.
Mrs. Porfidia Montoya, wife of Juan
Montoya, died at the family home in
Santa Fe of pneumonia after an i'll.
ness of eleven days.
The new custodian's house, chapel
and vaults at the Masonic cemetery
at Las Vegas are being completed
rapidly by the contractors.
The Hagerman Commercial Club
has been organized with E. e. Hoag-
land, president; NJ s. West, vice pres
ident and w. A. Losey, secretary.
Santos Flores Molino who lived at
lonely spot a short distance from
Pinos Altos and just below the Tam
pico mine, was found dead only about
100 yards from his home.
Postmaster Rockafellow of Roswell
states that the postoffice would, in all
probability, be located in the new fed
eral building on Fourth and Richard
son avenues, by April /.
Despite his protests that he did not
wish the office former Governor Mi
guel A. Otero has been unanimously
reelected chairman of the Progress
sive State Central committee.
H. C. Abbott shipped two carloads
of Mexican beans to Eastern markets.
These beans were secured from farm
ers on the French tract northwest of
Springer and were of 1912 crop.
The ranch house of Roman Ohne.
mus, located southeast of Carlsbad
about two miles, was burned to the
ground. Ben Wheeler and his wife
and child barely escaped from the
house, being nearly suffocated by
smoke.
February was a cold, stormy month,
with large excess in precipitation,
and heavy snowfall in all of the
higher districts of the state, especial.
ly over the upper reaches of the San
gre de Cristo range in Taos county,
the San Juan in Rio Arriba, the Black
and Mogollon in Grant, and the Sac
ramento in Otero.
Postmaster 10. E. Sheridan received
a communication from Washington
conveying the information that Silver
City's application for letter carrier
service had been allowed by the Post
office Department. In addition to
which he also received instructions to
complete arrangements for the inaugu-
ration of the service on May 1st.
The postoffice appropriation bill for
the year commencing July /, that was
passed by Congress on March 3,
makes many new and better salaries
for clerks In the Postoffice Depart
ment. Las Vegas postal employees will
be affected. The 5000 grade for clerks
and carrier is abolished and $500 is
to be the entrance salary.
1t was stated that never in the his
tory of New Mexico have there been
so many men at the penitentiary at
one time awaiting sentence of death.
1t is said that there are no less than
five with this sentence over their
heads, and these five are charged with
five separate murders. There were
four men sentenced to death on the
chage of one murder some years ago.
That her husband had threatened
to beat her to death and then COM
NIT suicide If she told any one Of the
punishments that he inflicted upon
her is stated in a complaint filed in
the District Court at Albuquerque by
Mrs. Theresa Peter Schnorr, through
her attorney, in which Mrs. Schnorr
asks decree of divorce from Edward
M. Schnorr.
State Superintendent White has
been invited to prepare an address to
be delivered before the Fourth Inter
national Congress on School Hygiene,
which holds its sessions in Buffalo,
New York, August 25-30. -
That the actions of the State Board
of Equalization may be reviewed
least in some cases-by the District
Court is the opinion Of District Judge
Edmund G. Abbott In an opinion
handed down at Santa Fe. It is an
opinion that will arouse interest
throughout the state because of the
clash that sometimes occurs between
board of county commissioners and