The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-25


county, is building stock pens.
Considerable broom corn changed
hands at Sedan at $50 per ton.
The postoffice force has moved in
to the new federal building at Ros-
well.
T. r. Singer of Lewis Flats, Luna
county, recently disposed of 600 head
of cattle delivered at Eel Paso.
A knights and Ladies of Security
lodge was organized at Las Vegas
with about sixty-five members.
Acting Governor de Baca has APP
pointed Benjamin Alcon of Gonzales,
San Miguel county, as a member of
the mounted police.
Farmer county has organized what
it calls protective society, intended
to guard against invasion by range
cattle on its preserves.
Jose D. Sena, clerk of the Supreme
Court issued certificates to nearly
500 attorneys admitting them to
practice in the Supreme Court.
Alamogordo people are doing things
in a unique manner. 1t will be ahead
of most places with the completion of
a reservoir built entirely of marble.
Governor william c. Mcdonald is
reported as having improved under
the treatment exacted at the sanitari-
UNI where he is staying at Santa Fe.
One section of the state recently
shipped a car Of beans to the flood
sufferers in the East Along comes
Pennington with a consignment of
fruit.
A big transaction in cattle is report
| ed. from Tularosa. S. S. Ward recent
ly disposed of 5000 head of steers to
Texas and Kansas City parties for
100000.
The county commissioners met at
| Tucumcari and allowed animal boun-
ties to 129 different parties, who drew
warrants on the animal bounty fund
in sums from So up to 1884,.
One hundred representative mer-
chants, manufacturers and bankers of
Dallas on the thirteenth annual excur-
sion of the Dallas Chamber of Com
MERGE spent Monday in Roswell.
The examination for railway mail
clerks that is to be held at the Las
Vegas postoffice on May 8, will be one
of the largest that has been held in
that city. Arrangements have been
made to examine over forty men.
Civil Engineer W. R. Smythe, who
has charge of the work on the Canine
Real, operating near Elmdorf, has
taken eighteen more state convicts
there to do road work. This makes a
force of our fifty convicts now work
ing on that highway. Some seven
miles of the road is completed south
of Elmdorf.
Glen A. Gray, district engineer of
the United States Geological Survey,
in conjunction with the state engin-
eers office, is getting out statistical
book on the state water supply, which
will show stream flow data for the
years 1911-12 in New Mexico The
box will contain a good deal of valu-
able information to ranchers and
i others.
Acting Governor de Baca appointed
a committee to present Congress the
House joint memorial passed by the
Legislature at its recent session. The
memorial relates to the wisdom of the
old homestead law, known as the ma.
tional homestead act, passed by Con-
gress In 1862 He appointed A. A.
Jones of San Miguel, Edward e.
Young of San Juan and Pascual Mar
tinez of Taos county.
Commissions as notaries public have
been issued at the secretary of states
office to the following persons Man.
uel Espanoso. Taos; John r. Mill
gan, Socorro; Cass l. Hester, Guada-
ldpe; John R. Finley, Dona Ana; Ed.
M. Wilson and Ernest F. Snyder of
Union.
The parole Of ]. e. Vigil OF Colfax
county, who was sent up for life and
has served some nine years. as rec
commended by the penitentiary board,
has been approved by Acting Cover.
nor de Baca. The case had many ex-
tenuating circumstances, and Vigil
has made a model prisoner. He has
an opportunity now to start life anew,
and hence the parole.
Mystery surrounds the fate of Syl.
Vanus G. Morley and Jesse Nusbaum
of the School of American Archaeol-
| oeA and well knoun raeidanto Of Can.