The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-02-14
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF

western Newspaper Union News Service
A commercial club has been
launched in Springer.
The Legislature has created a new
county called Sumner.
The demand for residence houses in
Springer is far greater than the sup
ply.
DIR. Ulysses P. White, one of Arte.
sia's most popular citizens, died from
apoplexy
The planning mill of the Wagon
Mound Lumber Company was totally
destroyed by fire.
Governor w. C. Mcdonald has APP
pointed Charles Henry Hess of Balti-
more commissioner OF deeds of New
Mexico.
The friends of ]. f. McCarty OF
Aztec were shocked by the announce
ment that he had taken poison and
was dead
Examinations for the position of as
sistant observer in the weather bureau
will be held, beginning on the 9th of
April, 1913.
Horace Moses, assistant to Mana
ger John Sully at Santa Rita, had the
misfortune to break his leg when his
horse fell on him.
c. H. West of Granger, Texas, has
purchased a forty-acre REIMBURSEMENT
from E. r. Vallandingham. two miles
northwest of Deming.
Arson A. Avery of Santa Fe has
been appointed by Judge Abbott as re-
ceiver for the Santa Fe Irrigation and
Improvement Company.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company and
the New Mexico Agricultural College
will run an instruction and demonstra-
ton train over the Santa Fe.
Game and Fish Warden Trinidad c.
de Baca has received his certificate
of membership in the American Fish
cries Society, national association.
AS an encouragement for work in
oratory in Carlsbad high school, w. G
Sellers. has offered to the high school
debating club twenty-five dollar
prize, for excellence in forensic work.
The students of the New Mexico
Normal University are bdsiIy at work
upon the preparation of their annual,
which will be issued at commence
ment time. Omar Barker is editor-in-
chief.
The convict camp has been moved
from Santa Rosa to Elmendorf, So
zorro county, by order of the state
engineer. The new camp will have
a bigger gang of workers and import.
ant results are aweited.
Early ratification by the Legisla.
ture of New Mexico of the income
tax amendment to the United States
al of but one state to become opera
tive, was indicated when joint reso-
luton approving the amendment was
favorably reported.
Mariana F. Sena, convicted for pad
ding the census rolls in the census of
ten years ago, was released from the
state prison at Santa Fe, where he
had served about half a sentence of
one year and one day His release
was the result of a message from
Washington stating that the President
had further committed sentence so as
to permit of his immediate release.
During the short time that the State
Legislature has been in session a
flood of bills has appeared in both
houses. Such record has been
reached in few legislatures in New
Mexico and it has seldom happened
that so many meritorlous bills have
been introduced so early in the ses
sion as have been introduced at this
session.
Bernard ]. Hicks. a brakeman oper-
ating between Carrizozo and Duran,
met with an accident which resulted
in the loss of his two feet The acct
dent happened at Corona, when the
brakeman stepped between two cars
to make cut.
Indians from every one of the Pu-
eblo tribes in New Mexico, arrived In
Santa Fe preparatory to leaving for
Washington, where they go to urge
The secretary of interior to accept
deeds to approximately 100000 acres
Of land owned by them in New Mex
leo The object o, the Indians in
feeding their land to the government.
as trustee. for a period of twenty-five