The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-02-21
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tower of Ramon Baca at Belen.
A total of $3,565.75 will be paid out
of the wild animal bounty fund for
scalps of coyotes, wild cats and lobos.
at Roswell.
Farmers in New Mexico and particu
larly the dry land farmers are com.
ing to recognize that their salvation
lies in stock raising.
The New Mexico Board of Bar En-
aminers admitted eleven candidates to
practice law in New Mexico at their
meeting in Santa Fe.
Mr.. VICENTE Labadie, father of Liber
alto and Modesto Labadie OF Santa
Rosa, accidentally shot himself
through his left hand
A bunch of tramps got into an
empty fruit car on the track of the Ell
Paso & Southwestern railroad at Du-
ran and burnt up the car.
The question of getting together on
county salary bill that will please
everybody is looming large already,
before the two finance committees of
the Legislature. =
The home of j. McC. Heflin of Ar
tesla was destroyed with all its con-
tents by fire, which originated west
of the house and travelled across the
field with great rapidity.
Rumors are current in Aztec that
the beet sugar factory at Monte Vista
is to be dismantled and moved away,
unless a railroad is built this spring
from Monte Vista to Center
The State Press Association held
well-attended meeting at Santa Fe and
discussed a number of matters of in
terest to publishers that will come be-
fore the present session OF the State
Legislature.
Nearly every commercial club in the
state was represented at the sessions
of the State Boosters Association at
Santa Fe, combining the commercial
organizations of every town and city
in the state.
The most moisture ever to come to
the Carlsbad section during fall and
winter to this date for the past twenty
years has been experienced this sea-
son. Such season is rare and will
put the ranges in fine shape.
The legislative House began work
under calendar and the members as
sert they intend to adhere to the cal.
endar and to prevent the passage of
any measure that does not first take
it's regular place thereon
Governor William c. Mcdonald
wants some information to solve the
problem of salaries for county Off
Gals. For this purpose the governor
wrote the county clerks for informa.
ton. to be sent him under cath.
The death occurred at his ranch
home on the Rio de Arenas, five miles
each of Silver City, of G. u. Comstock,
who for the past six years has been a
resident of that locality, coming from
Kansas. The cause of death was pneu-
monia
Congressman George Curry, former
territorial governor and for twenty
years prominent in New Mexico poll
tics, is preparing, temporarily at least,
to go out of public life with the expira-
ton of his term of office in Congress
on March 4.
Clad only in shirt and pair of
overalls. Juan Terez, twenty-five years
old, was taken from an eastbound
Southern Pacific train almost para
lyzed by the extreme cold which was
encountered in the mountains west OF
Deming recently.
The Agricultural College train run.
ming over the FL Paso & Southwestern
lines made two stops IN the Mimbres
valley, one at Columbus and one in
Deming There were about three hun
bred farmers at the train in Columbus
awaiting the train.
Declaring that municipalities arc
corporations and that they must seek
legislation for the good of the entire
community so that "the city beautiful
the city wholesome and the city use
full" may be a reality instead of a gill;
tering assertion, DR.. J. j. Shuler may
or of Ration, opened the meeting of the
Municipal League at Santa Fe.
In the case of the corporation com
mission against the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad to compel that com.
pany to re-establish service at the sta
tions of Baranca and Tres Piedras
briefs of the Supreme Court have been
submitted by Attorney General Clancy
which sustain the position of the com