The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-08-08
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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H. H. West, who was badly burned
at the Artesia armory, is improving.
Monica Madrid, merchant at Puertt
de Luna, suffered a severe loss BY
fire
New Mexico will output the largest
crop of cantaloupes this season in its
history
Cantaloupes are ripening and Por.
tales growers are already making
shipments
The Green Corn Dance of the Santo
Domingo Pueblo Indians was held on
August 4.
Charles Akers of Clovis, county
Jail prisoner there, was pardoned by
the governor.
A carload of Mexican beans will be
shipped from Maxwell to parties ia
West Virginia.
A meeting of stockmen was held at
Tucumcari for the purpose of form
ing an association.
There were sixty-six homicides in
New Mexico in 1912, with twenty.
seven so far this year.
The Harry Ringle 1GO-acre home.
stead near Deming, has been sold to
Texas parties for $4,000.
A number of Las Vegas citizens
are considering the conduction of a
baby efficiency contest at the county
fair.
A few miles west of Las Palomas
Springs in Sierra county has been
found first-class quality of mineral
plant.
The four-yearold son of T. M. Muir
ny of Tucumcari, shot and seriously
wounded his fifteen-months-old baby
brother.
While herding goats near Elk,
Peter Turpin. young man about
eighteen years old, was instantly
killed by lightning.
Jose M. Gonzales, who was being
taken from Santa Fe to Las Vegas to
the state asylum for the insane, died
on train No. 10 at Ribera.
Miss Mary Anderson, the sixteen.
year-old granddaughter of ex-Justice
Perkins of Fort Sumner, was injured
by being thrown from a hay rake.
The second crop of alfalfa around
Hagerman is a heavy one, but the
prices are still low. $3.50 and SO being
the figures for No. l pea green alfalfa.
A man named Turner, from Elk
City, Okla, has been in the valley
around Lake Arthur looking into the
matter of starting a concrete tile
factory.
President R. C. Ely. of the state
fair commission, announces the an.
pointment of Colonel Howard Fogg as
head of the department of hogs of the
state fair.
For the first time in the history of
the Cattle Sanitary Board that body
met in Silver City, one of the centers
OF the great cattle industry of the
Southwest.
A persistent rumor is abroad to the |
eject that "Chappo" Jose Hilario San,
dovaD of Roy, has been missing for
the past three months and nothing Is
known of him.
Automobile licenses continue to
pour in on the secretary of state as a
result of his notice to mayors and
city marshals regarding the enforcing
Of the new law.
A literary club has been organized
It Deming.
A terrific wind and rain storm, last.
ng for an hour, struck Ration, doing
damage and for a time
threatening to eclipse the fury and
destructive power of the June ihunda,
ions.
Ex-Governor H. ]. Hagerman, follow
ng the policy of water conservation
nd most upto-date methods of irriga-
ion, has adopted the conduit system
m large scale on his farm east of
boswell.
Abel Molino, out on parole from the
tate penitentiary, violated his word
t Old Albuquerque when he got
lixed up in saloon brawl, and as
was taken back to the states
rison, where he will serve about six
loDths more.
Judge w. H. Pope of the Federal
district Court, has named e. r.
Wright, Lorin c. Collins and E. p. Da-
les. members of the Santa Fe bar, as
committee to Investigate the alleged
lmpering with the envelopes submit.