The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-10-24
NEW MEXICO.
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Nov. 23-26.-Meeting New Mexico Edu
cationai Association at Albuquerque

appointed a notary public by Cover
nor Mcdonald.
The Federation of Women's clubs
held a pleasant and profitable meet
ing at Santa Fe.
1t will require fifty stock cars to
ship the $4,000 sheep acquired by e.
c. Chambers, buyer at Gallup.
Albert Kauzlowsk, miner, en-
ployed at the Heaton mine, near Gal
lup, was killed by powder blast.
Governor Mcdonald has disposed of a
large number of cattle, owing, it is
said, to short feed on his Carrizezo
ranch.
Judge Pope of Santa Fe, sentenced
Nez, a Navajo Indian, to four months
in Jail for opening a mail sack and
taking out letter.
The Rev. George Splinters, rector
and dean of the parish of Bernalillo,
and we'll known in Santa Fe, died af
ter an illness of eleven days.
The Savings bank of fabian was
closed by the state banking depart
ment, and L. B. Waters placed in
charge pending further developments.
Judge Pope, at Santa Fe, sentenced
several prisoners who had been con-
victed in U. s. District Court, among
them being some for selling liquor to
Indians.
Attorney General b. W. Clancy
went to Ell Paso to be present during
the taking of testimony in the bound
airy suit between the state of Texas
and the state of New Mexico.
the Chamber of Commerce offered a
premium of $25 for each one con-
structed in that section; twenty have
resulted from the crusade to date.
James Lynch of Roswell, on trial
at Clovis a second time for the muir
der of City Marshal Roy Woofter at
Roswell two years ago, entered plea
of guilty to murder in the second de-
gree.
Ira Brown, colored, who in Novem-
Der, 1909, was sentenced from Luna
county to the state reform school for
from five to six years, has been par
doned conditionally by Governor Nc
Donald.
Paroles were signed by Governor
Mcdonald in the cases of w. P. Koo-
keen and Frank Rice, both of Chaves
county, who had served their mini
mum sentence. Both men have work
offered them.
The Hope Community Irrigation
Company filed a dissolution notice
with the State Corporation Commits
sion. This company organized about
two years ago it is said, but never
commenced business.
Sweet Potato" Charley of near
Hagerman GLAZING he can raise on por-
lions of his farm $3.50 pounds of
sweet potatoes per acre, which, at two
cents per pound, should increase his
bank account $1,196.40.
The body of Ben Reddinger, who
disappeared from camp in the Man
zano mountains foothills near Albu.
querque, was found by searching
party. 1t is believed that his death
! Wob- OdupCu ny nSdiI
Two convicts at the state peniten-
tiary made their escape by saving
their way out through the roof of the
ice house. Del Rexford, one of the
prisoners, was overtaken and taken
back to prison within few hours.
Governor Mcdonald signed requisi-
ton to the governor of Oklahoma,
asking for the return to New Mexico
of l.. c. West, president of the Ameri-
can Bank and Trust Company of Clio
Wis, which was closed several months
ago.
A sale Of '16,O76 acres of state lands
in Luna county will be held Dec 8.
Chadwick and Deyo, contractors for
the grading on the new branch line
of railroad running from near White
water to the Burro Mountains, have
practically finished the job and track
laying has been in progress for sew
eral days.
Ninety-five cars of cantaloupes
were shipped from Roswell and South
Springs this season off of 45O acres:
600 were planted. Portales has ship
ped this season forty-four cars; Ar
tesla and Lakewood, 81 Fort Sumner.
thirty-six cars.
Aqua Nergra grant, in Guadalupe
county, recently changed hands at a
price said to be in the neighborhood
of $4,000 J. o. James of James, Tex.
being the purchaser, who will stock
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