The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-05-23

Cotton planting is being pushed at
Deming.
There is talk of incorporating the
town of Fort Sumner.
The coal miners employed at Hea-
ton went out on a strike.
Alfalfa at the present time is selling
in Mogollon for $50 per ton.
A telephone toll line from Roswell
to Mcdonald is being considered.
A dynamite explosion at Bosley's
camp near Maxwell caused a lot of ex-
element and little damage.
The loss of cattle and sheep in the
Logan country has not been so great
as stockmen and sheepmen expected,
in fact it has been very light.
j. F. Hancock of Las.Cruces was ar
rested on the charge of horse stealing.
Better mail delivery from Roswell
to Mcdonald and other plains towns
is asked.
Bishop Mcconnell has been assigned
by the International Board of Bishops
of the M. E. church for the Utah Mis-
sion-Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico
Franz II. Strong of Albuquerque.
who purchased the Mandy ranch near
Watrous some time ago, has sold that
property to DR.. j. e. Kraft of Albu-
querque.
Reuben Ortega, son of Santiago Or
tega of Questa, was instantly killed
by lightning. His skull was very bad
ly crushed and even his shoes were
torn from his feet
Benny Chavez of Trinidad, Colo,
won on points from Eddie Marine Of
New York in ten-round battle staged
at Elks' theater by the New Mexico
Athletic Club at Albuquerque.
One hundred and fifty good-roads
boosters from all sections of New
Mexico gathered in albuquerque to at
tend the annual convention of the New
Mexico Good Roads association.
According to the general summary
for April for the New Mexico section
issued by the Santa Fe weather bu-
reau the temperature of the month
averaged considerably below the nor
NAL.
Charged with the murder of her
husband, Fernando Ortiz, Mrs. Cage
tano Silva de Ortiz will be brought to
trial at the fall term of the District
Court for Guadalupe county at Santa
Rosa.
While coming into Santa Fe from
the forest fire, Sheriff Roman Galle-
COS and Deputy Sheriff Felipe Lopez
We're painfully hurt when their. horse
walked into a big ditch and turned
the buggy over.
The derrick and equipment of the
Fecos Valley Oil and Gas Company,
over the Brown we'll near Artesia,
was totally destroyed by fire Several
hundred barrels of oil in tanks near
the well was also burned
At the melting of the board OF COM
-missioners of Lordsburg they ordered
the payment of Treasurer Downes'
back pay, which had been accumulate
ed for more than a year and which
amounted to about $4,000.
The El Paso and Southwestern nas
been authorized by the corporation
commission to issue rate of one and
one-third fare for the round trip for
the summer session of the Silver City
Normal School to be held at that
place, good from May 26 to July Is,
applicable on all points west of FL
Paso via Deming to Silver City.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
the state travelling auditor, Howell
Earnest, of Santa Fe, as q delegate
to the National Association of Super
yisors of State Banks, which will be
held at st. Paul, Mimi, June 2.
Governor Mcdonald declined to in
terfere with the mandate of the SUI
preme Court affirming the death PEN
atty on the 10th for Domecio Delga-
dillo for numbering his sweetheart,
zoledad zarrino, last September.
That the causes and circumstances
surrounding the killing of Flo Hodge
Arnold at her home near Ranger Lake
will never become known to the pub
lie was made certain in the District
Court at Roswell when Joel Harvey
Arnold, the woman's husband, pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree.
The diplomas for the graduation of
twenty-seven young men from the New
Mexico Military Academy have been